Cinderella The Musical

★★★★★ ‘Cinderella is a triumph' The Sunday Times

★★★★★ ‘Bewitching melodies. Terrifically OTT. A blast’ The Guardian

★★★★ ‘Magical crowd-pleasing musical is one of the composer’s best’ The Telegraph

★★★★ ‘It's a glitterball hit' Daily Mail

★★★★ ‘Joyous. The show’s joie de vivre is irresistible’ The Times

★★★★ ‘A hilarious triumph’ Evening Standard

The much-anticipated World Premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella is now performing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, a new romantic musical comedy featuring an original story and book by 2021 OSCAR winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Women)and lyrics by Tony & Olivier award winner David Zippell (City of Angels).

Welcome to Bellville! The most aggressively picturesque town in the history of the world, populated exclusively with gorgeous townsfolk who stop at nothing to achieve perfection. Bellville is fairy tale come to life: a place where you can’t move without falling over a wishing well or a quivering milkmaid. Maintaining this façade is a full time job, and one that is taken very seriously indeed.

The only person steadfastly refusing to live in the fairy tale is Cinderella, loud-mouthed, dripping with disdain, and more likely to roast Hansel and Gretel for dinner than play the demure and downtrodden maid, Cinderella is desperate to escape. But underneath it all, the loneliness that comes with being the town pariah is wearing on her.

Audiences shouldn’t expect to see a prim and proper princess in this brand new adaptation of Cinderella. Instead, the “Cinderella story” is turned on its head, reinventing everything you know about her. Book Cinderella tickets in London on TodayTix.

Cinderella is now a fierce, independent woman, where nothing gets in her own way. Cinders still wants to be true to herself though, difficult in a town that’s stuck in its ways. The world premiere of Cinderella opened at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London.

The Cinderella script is written by Emerald Fennell whose best-known works include Killing Eve, the hit BBC drama with plenty of twists and turns. The Cinderella musical is a similar style, accompanied by a pop-rock musical score from Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel. Get ready for this Cinderella to blow your mind. Book Cinderella tickets in London on TodayTix.

What to Watch For

• The Cinderella musical has been in development for a number of years. Workshop performances were staged at The Other Palace in 2019.
• Cinderella writer Emerald Fennell stars in season 4 of Netflix’s The Crown as Camilla. Emerald Fennell also won her first Academy Award in 2021 for Promising Young Woman.
• The first track from Cinderella to be released was “Bad Cinderella” sung by Carrie Hope Fletcher.
• Carrie Hope Fletcher originates the role of Cinderella in London. She has starred in West End productions including Les Miserables as Fantine and Veronica Sawyer in Heathers.