Ryan Murphy to take Meryl Streep, Ariana Grande, Nicole Kidman, Awkwafina, and others to Netflix's Prom
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Ryan Murphy is kicking off his shiny new Netflix deal with a bit of a bang: Per Deadline, Murphy has consulted his impressively stuffed Rolodex of big-name friends to help him bring his film adaptation of the Tony-nominated stage musical, The Prom, to life.
According to Deadline, Meryl Streep will play celebrated Broadway actress Dee Dee Allen who must rehabilitate her career after a disastrous turn alongside co-star Barry Glickman (James Corden) in a play about Eleanor Roosevelt. Fellow Broadway stars Angie Dickinson (Nicole Kidman) and Trent Oliver (Andrew Rannells) join their efforts in finding a good enough human interest cause to cast a favorable light on the desperate stage veterans. They end up finding the perfect subject: a girl named Emma who is not allowed to take her girlfriend to prom. The film will also star Ariana Grande, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key as Streep’s love interest and Emma’s principal, Principal Hawkins. As of now, the role of Emma has not been cast.
Production is slated to begin in December and the film will have a brief theatrical release before hitting the streaming platform. Netflix seems to be betting on Broadway lately: It just closed a deal to bring the film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick…Boom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, to our queues.
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You know who was good in The Prom? The original cast.I mean, some of these aren’t bad choices (KMK), but Meryl Streep can’t even compare to Beth Level as a singer. And I really don’t need Ariana Granda un-enunciating her way through another musical adaptation.
Also, James Corden as Barry makes no sense to me at all. I like him, but I hate this. Just film the stage production.
Yippee! Another Ryan Murphy series that checks all the representation stereotype boxes. (This being said, I may be almost tempted to tune in if Awkwafina gets a bunch of screen time.)
It’s a movie.
This is terrible casting. If they refuse to use anyone from the Broadway cast, fine. I get it, they want names. Allow me to propose:Dee Dee: Christine Ebersole or Patti luPone or Bernadette Peters or Megan MullallyBarry: Mario Cantone or Nathan LaneAngie: Bebe NeuwirthAlyssa: Someone who will sing words I can understand.Rannells works and I’m actually kinda into Awkwafina.
Good luck with this, but seeing Murphy and Grande is enough to make me skip it.