Lloyd brings hipster edginess, style and unpredictability to this revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical – though it’s more surface-level than penetrating closeup
gave Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical a hipster-ish edginess, and it is the same for this production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 musical, to which he brings ferocious unpredictability.
Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s book retains some of the best lines of the screenplay, and while the score sounds bombastic at times and many of the songs seem unmemorable, the singing dazzles across the board. Nicole Scherzinger as Norma is not only a formidable vocalist but, as a celebrity playing a woman who is wrestling with the loss of her own celebrity, it is inspired casting for its circularity.
from 2016. Instead she is hammy, monstrous and antic in her narcissism, preening at the camera, flashing Instagram pouts and explicitly performing vulnerability. Even though she comes so far downstage that we feel physical intimacy, she is flatly drawn and devoid of any humanity – a horror film succubus or murderous gorgon who would literally kill for another 15 minutes of fame.
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