{"id":349109,"date":"2021-10-06T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/diana-the-musical-is-the-legendary-flop-broadway-deserves\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:28:16","slug":"diana-the-musical-is-the-legendary-flop-broadway-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/diana-the-musical-is-the-legendary-flop-broadway-deserves\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Diana the Musical&#8217; is the legendary flop Broadway deserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Diana the Musical&#8217; is the legendary flop Broadway deserves<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/author-johnny-oleksinski.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Johnny Oleksinski\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/author-johnny-oleksinski.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/author-johnny-oleksinski.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/author-johnny-oleksinski.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/author-johnny-oleksinski.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/author-johnny-oleksinski.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Broadway wouldn\u2019t really be back unless there was one show playing that\u2019s so ridiculous, we\u2019re baffled by its very existence.<\/p>\n<p>Disgusted. Mesmerized. Offended. Addicted. Nose up. Eyes wide. Stop! Keep going \u2026<\/p>\n<p>A proud piece of trash that was somehow developed and tweaked <em>for years<\/em> with the support of egomaniacal producers, who, like Harold Hill r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing in the River City town square, convinced salivating investors to pony up millions of dollars to slap a defective disco ball onstage and then have the gall to beg for Tony Awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, here she is, boys! The flop of the year is \u201cDiana the Musical,\u201d<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/signup\"> which just premiered on Netflix <\/a>prior to its official opening night Nov. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To quote \u201cEvita,\u201d which this Princess Di-bacle borrows liberally from: \u201cOh what a circus! Oh what a show!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, my fellow show queens, this column is not meant to be an angry, tut-tutting Di-atribe on why \u201cDiana\u201d is an abomination and what rules good art must follow. I don\u2019t care what Bertolt Brecht would\u2019ve thought, nor do I care what The New Yorker thinks. During this taped production about one of the world\u2019s greatest collective mournings of the last half-century, I laughed harder than I ever have in my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I cried, not because of Princess Diana\u2019s death, no, but because of David Bryan and Joe DiPietro\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some modern classics from the \u201cDiana\u201d book.<\/p>\n<p>Cradling baby William, Charles (Roe Hartrampf, excellent, truly) croons, \u201cDiana, I\u2019m holding our son. So, let me say, jolly well done!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the start of Act Two, Diana\u2019s extramarital side saddle James Hewitt \u2014 given a wig so red, it would stop traffic \u2014 enters shirtless, from a hole in the floor, and wails, \u201cYou don\u2019t need a messy divorce! All you need is a man on a horse!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later, at a soiree with both Di (Jeanna de Waal) and Camilla Parker Bowles (Erin Davie) in attendance, the upper-crust crowd goes, \u201cI just got a ticket to the main event! It\u2019s a Thrilla in Manila but with Diana and Camilla!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the stuff of legend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/diana-musical-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Queen Elizabeth II (Judy Kaye), left, is harsh to Princess Diana (Jeanna de Waal), right, in &quot;Diana the Musical.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-19701055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/diana-musical-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/diana-musical-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/diana-musical-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>(From left) Prince Charles (Roe Hartrampf) and Queen Elizabeth II (Judy Kaye) are harsh to Princess Diana (Jeanna de Waal) in \u201cDiana the Musical.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NETFLIX \u00a9 2021<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Broadway buffs discuss the flop posters on the wall at Joe Allen, they point out the usual offenders: \u201cLestat,\u201d \u201cCarrie the Musical,\u201d \u201cMoose Murders,\u201d \u201cLennon.\u201d But none of those money-losers ever had the stroke of genius to rhyme Thrilla, Manila and Camilla.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show is a scream \u2014 and pairs with ros\u00e9 better than any entree could ever hope to.<\/p>\n<p>Part of what makes \u201cDiana\u201d such high camp is that the talent is top-notch (\u201cDiana\u201d marketers, clip all the out-of-context quotes you want. You\u2019re gonna need \u2019em.); the production value is impressive (William Ivey Long\u2019s ornate costumes are a Di-light); and it takes itself more seriously than \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve watched \u201cDiana,\u201d beginning to end, three times. A friend who was cackling along with me \u2014 the Statler to my Waldorf \u2014 texted that it\u2019s \u201ccompulsory viewing for the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right. Everyone is already streaming the musical \u2014 directed by Christopher Ashley of \u201cCome From Away,\u201d which is a-way better \u2014 and the newly reopened watering holes around Shubert Alley are full of catty whispers.<\/p>\n<p>In the movie \u201cAmadeus,\u201d after Mozart unexpectedly dies, the gossiping and suspicious Viennese chant \u201cSalieri!\u201d on the street. Meanwhile, on Broadway, the word on everybody\u2019s lips is \u201cDiana!\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Disgusted. Mesmerized. Offended. Addicted. Nose up. Eyes wide. Stop! Keep going \u2026 A proud piece of trash that was somehow developed and tweaked for years with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/diana-musical.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[117106,29467,70418,1377],"class_list":["post-349109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-6-21","tag-broadway","tag-broadway-musicals","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}