ALW’s Bad Cinderella - Broadway Imperial Theater

“A costly mistake”

If it gets slammed by the U.S critics I wonder who or what he’ll blame?

Opening night’s on Thursday so we’ll find out soon enough.

And now, we know why Lawrence O'Connor and David Zippel was defending ALW when some wanted to mis-read his letter at the closing night as being dismissive of the Cast and Crew.

www.broadwayworld.com/article/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-Releases-Statement-Will-Miss-BAD-CINDERELLA-Opening-20230318

"Be Kind - Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about"

I think given his circumstances at that time, it's understandable that he might have overlooked some poor phrasing on a letter.

The mess with the new cast's contracts was a lot more problematic. The question is – did that fault stem directly from him or just poor form from the production team? 

Well, I don't much care about that. People don't get a pass because something bad happens to them. He isn't suddenly a good person who treated his cast with respect.

Wow... shocking! I hope you don't suffer too many sleepless nights.

Really? Is sarcasm beyond your comprehension? I will make a mental note to always be literal when I reply to your posts in future, then. Your dispassionate words, 'sad circumstances, certainly' over his son being critically ill with cancer make me wonder why you would begin to think you have any sort of moral superiority in the first place. You know nothing about what was really going on. If someone close to me was critically ill, they would be my first priority, not the cast.

I don't think the show should have remained open - it wasn't very good - but the cast and crew absolutely deserved better. I don't think there's any excuse to treat people terribly. You can have things going on in your life and also still be a professional and decent person. There was no sarcasm in your post, Oliver. You just seem to have a very black and white view of things when there ought to be shades of grey. It is sad what's going on in ALW's personal life, but that earns no one a blank cheque to treat everyone else poorly, at least in my book.

Pretty sure that there is an entire team of people at RUG involved in running a show - unless ALW should have been ringing everyone up individually to explain everything (always assuming he could do that before someone blabbed anyway which would be unlikely), putting all the blame onto one person who clearly has other distractions seem a bit . . . graceless? No doubting that the treatment was shoddy, and that ‘the boss’ should take the majority of the heat, but it seems to be more due to a systemic failure on the production side than him actively being an arse…

I see my position as the opposite to black and white. I am not saying ALW was in the right necessarily, but there is always two sides to a story. I would also suggest that personal circumstances can have a seriously negative impact on the way people interact with others at a given point in time (or not as the case may be). I know some people are able to avoid that kind of behaviour at all times, which is of course admirable, but they most likely have better coping mechanisms in place.

ITS OPENING NIGHT!