The run closed December 19, 2021
- Opened
- November 17, 2021
- Closed
- December 19, 2021
- Performances
- 33
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Longacre Theatre
Of the 175 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and record a performance count, this is the 160th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Diana 1 more that season
| 1929 | Longacre Theatre Original | 8 perf. |
Who was in it12 named
Zach Adkins
Holly Ann Butler
Chris Medlin
Tessa Alves
8 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters13 roles recorded
Kerry Ellis Princess Diana
Alice Fearn Camilla Parker Bowles
Andy Coxon Prince Charles
Denise Welch Queen Elizabeth II / Barbara Cartland
Aleyna Mohanraj Sarah Spencer
Anthony Murphy Paul Burrell
Jay Perry James Hewitt
n Andrew Morton
Zach Adkins Andrew Parker Bowles
André Jordan Colin
Chris Medlin Graham
n Johnnie Spencer
n Young Diana
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Christopher Ashley
- Choreographer
- Kelly Devine
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Diana is a musical with music and lyrics by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, and a book by DiPietro, based on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. A filmed performance was released on Netflix on 1 October 2021, to negative reviews.
TRIBUTE TO DIANA VREELAND. By John Heys. April 30, 1990. The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989 1990 Featuring Unknown Burns Mantle Ye, p. 478
Spending much of the 1970s directing concerts and nightclub acts, including Bette Midler’s Clams on the Half Shell and An Evening with Diana Ross, Layton returned with a vehicle for newly crowned Broadway star Alexis Smith.
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 305- featuring a heroic turn by star Diana Rigg), and the as-yet-unproduced-in-New York musical version of Our Town titled Grover’s Corners. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 312
- In the end, all is well, and Mary gives birth to twins. The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre 1943 1965 Naden Corinne J Rowman Litt, p. 27
- New songs were added with music by William Friml (Rudolf’s son) and Burton Lane, and the new version jettisoned most of the political connotations and social significance, adding a love triangle between Sylvester, Sandy (renamed Penny), and a new character, Diana, Bigelow’s secretary. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 334
- Diana is played by Jennifer Laura Thompson. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2009 To May 2010 Sixth Viagas Robert New Yor, p. 185
- The 2021 biomusical Diana featured a scene where the Princess of Wales visited gay men in an AIDS ward of a London hospital, but the less said about it, the better. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 280
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Diana at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.