The dazzling and devastating life of Princess Diana takes center stage in this original musical, filmed in advance of its official Broadway opening.... (Full plot summary below)
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The dazzling and devastating life of Princess Diana takes center stage in this original musical, filmed in advance of its official Broadway opening.
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| San Francisco ChronicleLily JaniakWriters David Bryan and Joe DiPietro are somehow always generous yet trenchant with their rich source material. It’s a fairy tale with a “a pretty, pretty girl in a pretty, pretty dress,” but one with a rotten foundation — a royal marriage less built on love than strategized by cold pragmatism. |
| CNNBrian LowryDiana: The Musical might make for a fine night out at the theater, but viewed on Netflix, what's billed as a "special presentation" becomes another shiny bauble that ultimately doesn't feel particularly special. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireDespite a few musical bright spots, you’ll leave humming the costumes. |
| Boston GlobeDon AucoinAs biography, Diana is shallow and reductive, checking the boxes of an extremely well-known story with numbing predictability. As musical theater, Diana is a forgettable farrago of painfully on-the-nose lyrics and clashing song styles that ventures perilously close to camp. |
| Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerIf you want royal intrigue and insight, do yourself a favor and revisit Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview because Diana: The Musical is rather like the royal family itself these days, expensive and pointless. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt’s tolerable, I suppose, if you don’t have to listen to it. Unfortunately it’s a musical so you have to listen to it. |
| Vanity FairRichard LawsonThis is not a considered look at someone’s life; it’s a cash-in that just wants to get to the tragic end, hoping that the audience will convince themselves that they felt something along the way. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a Rocky Horror Picture Show of cluelessness and misjudged Judy Garlandification. I can imagine masochists getting together for Diana: The Musical parties, just to sing the most nightmarish lines along with the cast. The rest of us will need a long lie down. |
| User ReviewHamptonsflDiana the musical was one of the worst Broadway plays I have ever seen recorded. The characters will all reduce to cartoon characters and most importantly the songs were unremarkable. The only positive about the Broadway show was that I wasn't paying $200 to see this mess of a show. The quick changes with the dresses was fun to watch and and the ending just had no ending at all it looked like dventhe producers gave up. Its a shame this could have been a good musical with memorable songs and a better telling of her story. I felt like what a waste of time watching this show,avoid at all costs. |
| User ReviewBeccaAThis is bloody awful, good God..why!!! why!!! make this. The music is awful, the acting is mediocre at best, and the writing is terrible. |
