For better and worse.

That Andrew Lloyd Webber himself trashed it (he didnt).

Edward Everett Horton).

Bad Cinderella

Linedy Genao, Jordan Dobson, ‘Bad Cinderella’Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

Bad Cinderellahas a little of each.

Just enough, in fact, to place it somewhere in the middle of the Lloyd Webber catalogue.

Identifying an artworks influences and/or rip-offs can be addictive.

WGA West building in Hollywood

Linedy Genao and ‘Bad Cinderella’ company (Credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Nowhere is this more evident, or more unfortunate, than in the scenes spotlighting its title character.

In fact, our first indication of this troublemaker is some graffiti reading Beauty Sucks!

She must be some terror.

The number is reprised a couple times, and could hold up with another.

Against all odds, it works.