{"id":124502,"date":"2020-12-02T00:21:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/broadway-is-back-on-netflix\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:21:13","slug":"broadway-is-back-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/broadway-is-back-on-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"#Broadway is back on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Broadway is back on Netflix<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 130 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for thematic elements, some suggestive\/sexual references and language.) On Netflix Dec. 11.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Making the Broadway musical \u201cThe Prom\u201d into a film was a risky move for Ryan Murphy. <\/p>\n

The cute little show by\u00a0Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin was warmly received when it opened in 2018, but flopped two months after winning no Tony Awards. Unlike, say, \u201cWest Side Story,\u201d which was supposed to hit cinemas this Christmas, few people have ever heard of it. <\/p>\n

Then again, newness is this movie\u2019s greatest asset. The usual comparisons that dog stage-to-screen adaptations \u2014 \u201cMadonna is no Patti LuPone!\u201d \u2014 are moot here because most viewers will be attending \u201cThe Prom\u201d for the first time on Netflix.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019ll have a fabulous night \u2014 but it\u2019ll help if they spike their punch.<\/p>\n

The outlandish movie is built around a clever and deeply cynical premise: Four struggling, self-obsessed Broadway actors look for a noble cause to support in order to get themselves some good free publicity. They\u2019ve been trashed by critics (Muwhahaha!) and denied juicy roles by casting directors.<\/p>\n

Fed up, the miserable misfits go off to Indiana to help a teen lesbian, named Emma, attend her high-school prom, which the PTA has banned her from. <\/p>\n

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Meryl Streep and James Corden<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s Dee Dee (Meryl Streep), a stage veteran and star of the critically reviled \u201cEleanor,\u201d a song-and-dance spectacular about that barrel of fun . . . Eleanor Roosevelt. Her FDR and BFF is Barry (James Corden), a flamboyant comic. Their pal Angie (Nicole Kidman) has spent 20 years in the chorus of \u201cChicago\u201d dreaming of playing Roxie, and tagalong Trent (Andrew Rannells) is a Juilliard acting grad and bartender at Sardi\u2019s restaurant on West 44th Street. (Rannells, by the way, is a fetus compared to the actual bar staff at Sardi\u2019s.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you afraid of gay people?\u201d poor Emma (Jo Ellen Pellman) asks the PTA\u2019s top dog (Kerry Washington) during a meeting. And right on cue, in come the actors like they\u2019re storming the \u201cLes Miz\u201d barricade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are liberals from Broadway!\u201d Trent proudly proclaims to the Midwestern crowd\u2019s shock and horror. It\u2019s hard to decide who\u2019s more revolting.<\/p>\n

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The cast and crew of \u201cThe Prom.\u201d<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s what \u201cThe Prom\u201d gets so right: Nobody, save for Emma, is morally clean. The town is marginalizing and bullying an innocent kid, and the narcissist thespians want their \u201cgoodwill\u201d to reap Tonys and TV interviews.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The material, filled with peppy pop songs, is admittedly funnier than Murphy and his cast make it. Barry (played on Broadway by the brilliant Brooks Ashmanskas) was a riot onstage, but Corden\u2019s bland performance is generically kind, fey and mostly joke-less. Someone like Nathan Lane would\u2019ve made a meal of every line.<\/p>\n

That said, the story is more moving here than it was at the theater, which comes as a surprise. Murphy\u2019s other musical effort, the TV series<\/a> \u201cGlee,\u201d was a lot of things, but subtly touching was not one of them. And yet you shed a tear as Kidman and Streep drop their cartoonish Manhattan airs \u2014 Dee Dee\u2019s first song sung to the Indianans is called \u201cIt\u2019s Not About Me!\u201d \u2014 and become mother figures to Emma. Her secret girlfriend is played by the talented Broadway actress Ariana DeBose.<\/p>\n

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Ariana DeBose and Kerry Washington<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another out-of-left-field performance comes from Keegan-Michael Key as a forward-thinking high-school principal and Streep\u2019s love interest, Tom. Not everyone in Indiana, it turns out, hates Broadway. Tom visits New York every year (remember tourism?) and sees as many shows as he can afford. A line he speaks that was schmaltzy two years ago hit me like a falling piece of scenery now that Times Square\u2019s theaters are all dark.<\/p>\n

Over dinner at App<\/a>lebee\u2019s, a dejected Dee Dee tells him she\u2019s thinking of quitting Broadway for good.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t quit,\u201d he replies. \u201cBecause I need you to do what you do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t we all?<\/p><\/div>\n

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