See trailer for “The Prom” – Meryl is everything in it!
Okay, let’s just get real right now.
I’m going to be completely obsessed with The Prom and three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep’s character of Dee Dee Allen. In the trailer that dropped today, she plops her two Tony Awards – one at a time – on the front desk of a hotel to get her way. It gave me a bit of the Miranda Priestley vibe and I got all tingly.
The plot: Dee Dee and Barry Glickman (Tony Award winner James Corden) are New York City stage stars with a crisis on their hands: their expensive new Broadway show is a major flop that has suddenly flatlined their careers. Meanwhile, in small-town Indiana, high school student Emma Nolan (newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman) is experiencing a very different kind of heartbreak: despite the support of the high school principal (Keegan-Michael Key), the head of the PTA (Kerry Washington) has banned her from attending the prom with her girlfriend, Alyssa (Ariana DeBose). When Dee Dee and Barry decide that Emma’s predicament is the perfect cause to help resurrect their public images, they hit the road with Angie (Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman) and Trent (Andrew Rannells), another pair of cynical actors looking for a professional lift. But when their self-absorbed celebrity activism unexpectedly backfires, the foursome find their own lives upended as they rally to give Emma a night where she can truly celebrate who she is.
Directed by Ryan Murphy, The Prom is the spectacular, big-hearted film adaptation of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Screenplay by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin.
Enjoy the trailer!
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Howard says:
A friend of mine is a NY theatre critic, and he once told me that the show was one of the best he’s ever seen. Should be good.