Can one movie make up for a year without musical theater, without jazz hands? Ryan Murphy s “The Prom” tries its damnedest to, but despite a promising opening and a spiritedness
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Ryan Murphy is set to direct Netflix s upcoming musical feature film The Prom , which is loosely based on an incident that occurred in 2010 to high school student Constance McMillen. The young woman who was a student at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Mississippi wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom and also wear a tuxedo but things didn t go as smoothly for her as it would have gone for her peers.
According to reports, McMillen s school said that same-sex couples and girls wearing tuxedos were a violation of their school policy and the school board ended up banning McMillen from her prom. Being the brave person that she is, McMillen spoke up about the injustice only for the school to cancel the prom entirely. The Sun reported that McMillen was shunned by her classmates with some even sporting T-shirts that read, Thanks, Constance, for ruining prom . While her peers thought it was funny to have a party without her, they were on th
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Dolly Parton stars in The Late Late Show country special, there s a Dionne Warwick retrospective on BBC Four, there’s the The Royal Variety Performance 2020, and Meryl Streep on the double with Little Women and The Prom . . .
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Every year Ryan Tubridy hosts a Late Late Show country music special but this year’s event was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Until now, that is.
To make things even better for country fans, the main guest on the show will be none other than superstar Dolly Parton, who famously donated a million dollars to aid the search for a Covid-19 vaccine.
Ratched hit Netflix, his adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical
The Prom arrives to the platform gussied up in a technicolor version of the same worshipful high school nostalgia as
Glee, and riddled with the same condescension toward “average” people that has defined so much of his output, from
Nip/Tuck to
The Politician. Murphy’s fondness for smashing down the walls surrounding certain American institutions and making them available for all to enjoy has never been particularly nuanced, and he directs
The Prom with the same bluntness. The film’s ultimate admiration of celebrity is only vaguely tolerable because its concurrent message of inclusivity is theoretically admirable but must it be delivered by the likes of a thoroughly exhausting, irredeemably self-satisfied James Corden?