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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChronicleLily JaniakSan Francisco ChronicleLily JaniakWriters David Bryan and Joe DiPietro are somehow always generous yet trenchant with their rich source material. It’s a fairy tale with a “a pretty, pretty girl in a pretty, pretty dress,” but one with a rotten foundation — a royal marriage less built on love than strategized by cold pragmatism.
- 60CNNBrian LowryCNNBrian LowryDiana: The Musical might make for a fine night out at the theater, but viewed on Netflix, what's billed as a "special presentation" becomes another shiny bauble that ultimately doesn't feel particularly special.
- 38RogerEbert.comChristy LemireRogerEbert.comChristy LemireDespite a few musical bright spots, you’ll leave humming the costumes.
- As biography, Diana is shallow and reductive, checking the boxes of an extremely well-known story with numbing predictability. As musical theater, Diana is a forgettable farrago of painfully on-the-nose lyrics and clashing song styles that ventures perilously close to camp.
- If you want royal intrigue and insight, do yourself a favor and revisit Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview because Diana: The Musical is rather like the royal family itself these days, expensive and pointless.
- 25Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt’s tolerable, I suppose, if you don’t have to listen to it. Unfortunately it’s a musical so you have to listen to it.
- 20The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a Rocky Horror Picture Show of cluelessness and misjudged Judy Garlandification. I can imagine masochists getting together for Diana: The Musical parties, just to sing the most nightmarish lines along with the cast. The rest of us will need a long lie down.
- 20Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonThis is not a considered look at someone’s life; it’s a cash-in that just wants to get to the tragic end, hoping that the audience will convince themselves that they felt something along the way.