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Its not afiasco, or even afiasca, because that would be more fun.

From Bad Cinderella, at the Imperial.

In fact, its occasional baseline competence makes it all the more insubstantial.

Its giving … why?

(Foreboding phrase, frankly.)

(He apologized later.)

Thus, reborn out of the ashes of bad PR,Bad Cinderellahas landed in America.

Is that enough to make it good?

Or bad in a fun, camp way?

You have to earn that.

Sebastian, a dweeb, is Cinderellas only friend.

You both can and cant imagine how things develop from there.

Shes good, although nobody may be incandescent enough to make an impression with a character so totally underwritten.

(It does not help thatone songrelies on the phraseheart of stone.)

It attempts to say barely anything, and it succeeds.

Why, at this point in his career, is Lloyd Webber so intent on tellingthisstory?

Is there any better answer in the text ofBad Cinderella?

She looks as bland as everybody else.

Bad Cinderellais at the Imperial Theatre.