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If you liked the film versions of "Mamma Mia!" or "Les Miserables," then you'll probably like "The Prom," premiering Friday on Netflix. Overexertion rarely gets in the way of a hit musical on screen. ...

TV Editor Dolly Parton stars in The Late Late Show country special, theres 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 . . . Pick of the Day The Late Late Show, 9.345pm, RTÉ One 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 ma...

THE PROM: 3 STARS Director Ryan Murphy returns to familiar territory with “The Prom,” a high school musical adapted from a Broadway show now streaming on Netflix. The creator of the pop culture juggernaut “Glee” throws subtlety out the window and ups the ante with an all-star cast to bring the all-singing-all-dancing story of inclusivity to glittery life. The action begins on the opening night of a Broadway show, a musical about Eleanor Roosevelt starring two self-involved stage icon...

Rating: While I wouldnt want to overload you with positive news in the week in which the first Covid-19 vaccines were administered, The Prom offers another way out of our vale of tiers, if only in the form of two hours of exuberant musical escapism. It stars James Corden, who I know gives some people the needle — and not in a good way — but he is perfectly OK here. His performance as a flamboyantly camp actor has been lambasted as an offensive caricature by a straight man, but lets give th...

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 nuanc...

Netflix This film shouldn’t work. It has James ‘Carpool’ Corden in it, jazz-handing with grim abandon and belting out unmemorable songs in a dodgy American accent. Its lead actress, an unknown called Jo Ellen Pellman, is dementedly smiley throughout. The political message of the film is so obvious it feels screamed into your face: tolerance is good, homophobia and small-town parochialism bad, bad, bad. Then there’s the length issue: nominally two hours 12 minutes, the film f...

Melinda Sue Gordon / Netflix Look whos going to The Prom with Jo Ellen Pellman: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, Keegan-Michael Key and late-night talk host James Corden. Jo Ellen Pellman attended Walnut Hills High School and the University of Michigan. Credit Ambe J. The 2014 Walnut Hills High School graduate plays Emma, an Indiana high school senior who was banned from taking her girlfriend to the prom, in the Netflix version of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical. ...

Ariana DeBose talks about her experience working on the Netflix musical film The Prom.

[T]epid and unfunny, with a collection of unlikable characters, basic plotting, and an underwhelming soundtrack.

The Prom review – Meryl Streep saves this party from disaster Meryl Streep and James Corden in The Prom If there’s one thing we’ve seen a lot of this year, its celebrities making things all about them. Anyone who cringed their way through Gal Gadot and friends’ Imagine cover in March will know how the rich and famous can often misjudge the tone during hard times. With this in mind, Netflix’s expensive musical The Prom seems perfectly timed. Directed by Ryan Murphy (Gl...