The reviews are in for The Prom on Netflix, Ryan Murphy’s star-studded film adaptation of the Chad Beguelin-Bob Martin-Matthew Sklar musical. The movie drops on the streaming giant December 11.
Starring are Meryl Streep as Dee Dee Allen, James Corden as Barry Glickman, Nicole Kidman as Angie Dickinson, Andrew Rannells as Trent Oliver, Ariana DeBose as Alyssa Greene, Keegan-Michael Key as Mr. Hawkins, Kerry Washington as Mrs. Greene, Kevin Chamberlin as Sheldon Saperstein, Tracey Ullman as Vera, and Mary Kay Place as Grandma Bea.
The musical opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre November 15, 2018, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, who returns to choreograph the movie. Book writer Martin also pens the screenplay for Netflix, with all of Beguelin and Sklar's score intact.
Read the reviews below.
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Entertainment Weekly (Mary Sollosi)
The Hollywood Reporter (David Rooney)
London Evening Standard (Charlotte O'Sullivan)
The Los Angeles Times (Charles McNulty)
New York Magazine/Vulture (Helen Shaw)
New York Post (Johnny Oleksinski)
New York Stage Review (Melissa Rose Bernardo and Steven Suskin)
The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
The Salt Lake Tribune (Sean P. Means)
Sydney Morning Herald (Sandra Hall)
Theatre News Online (Brian Lipton)
The Washington Post (Peter Marks)
Playbill will continue to update this page as reviews come in.
The creative team for the Netflix adaptation includes cinematographer Matthew Libatique, production designer Jamie Walker McCall, costume designer Lou Erych, music supervisor Amanda Kreig Thomas, composer and music editor David Klotz, and editors Danielle Wang and Peggy Tachdjian with casting by Alexa Fogel.
Rounding out the cast are Nico Greetham, Logan Riley, Nathaniel J. Potvin, and Sofia Deler.