Diana - 2021 Broadway History , Info & More
Longacre Theatre (Broadway)
220 West 48th Street New York, NY
Tony Award-winning director Christopher Ashley (Come From Away) and the wrtiers behind the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis (Joe DiPietro and David Bryan) bring us face-to-face with one of the 20th century's most compelling figures in this landmark musical event, featuring an epic and sweeping contemporary score.
Diana - 2021 - Broadway Cast
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‘Diana the Musical’ is tabloid trash but alive, nonetheless
2 / 10
'Diana the Musical' offers no meaningful insights (nor even ones lacking in meaning) into a woman who really should be allowed to rest in much-deserved peace. Dramaturgically speaking, this trashy show makes 'The Crown' look like Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.' But director Christopher Ashley has pumped up the energy. The fearless choreographer Kelly Devine (anyone who puts a real Dancing Queen on a Broadway stage gains a lifetime of stories to tell at parties) takes, as her ubertext, revenge served cold. And the masked hordes thus fasten their seat belts (as if they could find the buckle after all those pregame cocktails) and settle down for a melodrama of retribution that is perhaps best summed up by another of the show's immortal lyrics, deftly referencing one of Diana's famous attempts at exacting revenge through her couture, 'a feckity-feckity, feckity-feckity, feck-you dress.'
‘Diana, The Musical’ Review: A Royal Tragedy Turned Vacuous Rom-Com
4 / 10
Director Christopher Ashley, who heads La Jolla Playhouse where this production premiered, hands in a seamless and unfussy physical staging, on set designer David Zinn's royal-blue colonnade, an obvious gilded prison. But Ashley, a Tony winner for 'Come From Away,' offers no solution for the musical's narrative inertia, and Kelly Devine's choreography, a stock blend of mugging and scurrying, doesn't help. Though Diana's life ended in a frenzy, the musical whimpers to a conclusion, succumbing to its own lack of purpose.
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Diana History
Other Productions of Diana
| 2019 | San Diego, CA (Regional) |
World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse San Diego, CA (Regional) |
| 2021 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Diana - 2021 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Jeanna de Waal |
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical | Natasha Katz |
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Wig and Hair | Paul Huntley |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | William Ivey Long |
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