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For the last several days, Ive been singing one line from the musicalThe Promat everything in my house.
One things universal, I bellow at the coffee maker.
Andspeakingof performing without applause, Netflix made a movie ofThe Prom!
Giddy, smart, bighearted,said our Sara Holdren about the 2018 production.
trumpets one showbiz optimist, when it turns out that putting on a show is the only (?
)way to defy the homophobes and give Emma her prom.
What happens when you take a fish like this out of the theater and put it on a soundstage?
But as the show goes on, its unbeautiful but glossy surface grows increasingly depressing.
Is this a sniffy, it-was-better-on-Broadway reaction?
At least in part.
I will admit Ive been annoyed since Murphy announced his cast.
I guess something else is universal!
The best part is the beginning.
Corden, though, is overmatched, and Nicole Kidman decides to do a Brooklyn accent.
The films scope, weirdly, diminishes the minute it leaves New York.
What a bunch of cultureless yahoos, amirite?
But Murphys lens should be wiser than his characters, or at the very least, look around.
This is important: An invulnerable Emma spoils almost all of the musicals calculus.
Perhaps Dee Dee isalsouniversal.
For one thing, the plot includes three proms.
(Four if you count the sequence fromEleanor!Broadway is prom for adults: Discuss.)
Look, Hollywood has madeA Star Is Born[refusing to check notes] 48 times.
