The Netflix Trailer For The 'Diana' Musical Is Royally Singing

With the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana just around the corner in 2022, the proliferation of Diana-based dramatizations is ramping up. The Crown got there first with Emma Corrin's Emmy nominated turn in Season 4 as the late Princess of Wales and will follow it up next year with Elizabeth Debicki taking over the role for Seasons 5 and 6. Likewise, Diana's story is almost certainly going to be in the Oscar race come this winter, thanks to Kristen Stewart's turn in the role in Spencer, which opened at the Venice International Film Festival to rapturous reviews. And now there's a version gunning for Tonys, with Diana, a Broadway musical opening at the Longacre this Fall.

Diana was supposed to be the first out of the gate, with an opening night scheduled for March 2020. We all know what happened there, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut the whole thing down before it got out of previews. (Pity the reviewers who have been sitting on finished copy for going on two years, all of which is still under embargo.) The show has since rescheduled its premiere twice, first hoping to open in December 2020 and now with previews restarting in November 2021. The new opening night is coming on Nov. 17, 2021, variants willing.

But in the in-between time, Disney+ went ahead and scored its first non-Marvel non-Star Wars smash hit in July 2020 with a filmed version of Hamilton: An American Musical, bringing out a cry from theater lovers that they would watch stage productions filmed for streaming. Now, that's a lot easier said than done, as live theater union contracts are structured in such a way that deliberately prevents filmed versions of shows from being put on television except under specific circumstances. (Hamilton's was a special case, so are most of the shows that wind up on PBS' Great Performances.)