The show was due before December on the stages of the Longacre Theater on Broadway.
But the Covid-19 decided otherwise.
The new musical dedicated to Lady Di will premiere on Netflix, the producers announced on Tuesday.
Soberly titled
Diana
, the show will be available from October 1, two months before the theater reopens on December 1, if the health crisis allows it.
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“The chance to share our show, first with Netflix's global audiences, and then to host a live audience on Broadway, is something we've all been dreaming of for over a year,”
the producers said.
Indeed, the theaters of the emblematic district lowered the curtain last March, and this, at least until June 2021.
Written by Joe DiPietro and directed by Christopher Ashley, the play was captured in 2020, without spectators, and with its original cast, reports
Variety
.
Paced by the compositions of David Bryan, keyboardist of the Bon Jovi group,
Diana will
resuscitate the adulated princess, camped by the actress Jeanna de Waal, through her unhappy marriage to Prince Charles (Roe Hartrampf).
Erin Davie will lend her features to Camilla Rosemary Shand while Judy Kaye will play Queen Elisabeth II.
Twenty-four years after her death under the Alma Bridge in Paris in 1997, Lady Di still fascinates.
In addition to the series
The Crown
which is a
hit
on Netflix, a new biographical film entitled
Spencer is
about to emerge under the camera of Pablo Larraín with Kristen Stewart in the title role.
Expected for next fall, it should hit screens at the same time as the new musical.
