Musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
is a
musical
written for
television
, but later played on stage, with music by
Richard Rodgers
and a book and lyrics by
Oscar Hammerstein II
. It is based upon the
fairy tale
Cinderella
, particularly the French version
Cendrillon, ou la petite pantoufle de verre
("Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper"), by
Charles Perrault
. The story concerns a young woman forced into a life of servitude by her cruel stepmother and self-centered stepsisters, who dreams of a better life. With the help of her
fairy godmother
, Cinderella is transformed into a princess and finds her prince.
Cinderella
is the only
Rodgers and Hammerstein
musical written for television. It was originally broadcast live in color on
CBS
on March 31, 1957, as a vehicle for
Julie Andrews
, who played the title role. The broadcast was viewed by more than 100 million people. It was subsequently remade for television twice, in 1965 and 1997. The 1965 version starred
Lesley Ann Warren
and
Stuart Damon
. The 1997 version starred
Brandy Norwood
in the title role, with
Whitney Houston
as the fairy godmother. Both remakes add songs from other Richard Rodgers musicals.
The musical has been adapted for the stage in a number of versions, including a London
West End
pantomime
adaptation, a
New York City Opera
production that follows the original television version closely, and various touring productions. A
2013 adaptation
on Broadway starred
Laura Osnes
and
Santino Fontana
, with a new book by
Douglas Carter Beane
.
History
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In the 1950s, television adaptations of musicals were fairly common. Broadcast versions of
Annie Get Your Gun
,
Wonderful Town
,
Anything Goes
and
Kiss Me, Kate
were all seen during the decade.
[1]
In 1955,
NBC
had broadcast the Broadway musical
Peter Pan
, starring
Mary Martin
. It was a hit, and the network looked for more family-oriented musical projects.
Richard Rodgers
had previously supplied the
Emmy Award
-winning score for
Victory at Sea
, a documentary series about
World War II
. NBC approached
Rodgers and Hammerstein
and asked them to write an original musical expressly for television (rather than merely adapting an existing one to the television special format), then a novel idea. The team decided to adapt the fairy tale
Cinderella
and, new to television, they sought the advice of an industry insider,
Richard Lewine
. Lewine was then the Vice President in charge of color television at
CBS
and a cousin of Richard Rodgers. He told Rodgers and Hammerstein that CBS was also seeking a musical project and had already signed
Julie Andrews
, who was then starring in
My Fair Lady
on Broadway. Rodgers recalled, in his autobiography: "What sold us immediately was the chance to work with Julie."
[2]
Rodgers and Hammerstein signed with CBS.
Rodgers and Hammerstein retained ownership of the show and had control over casting, direction, set and costumes, while CBS controlled the technical aspects of the broadcast and had an option for a second broadcast. CBS announced the production on September 5, 1956. In adapting the famous fairy tale, "Rodgers and Hammerstein stayed faithful to the original
Charles Perrault
" version.
[3]
Hammerstein
was interviewed by the
Saturday Review
about the adaptation: "We want the kids who see it to recognize the story they know. Children can be very critical on that score. But, of course, their parents will be watching too, so we have tried to humanize the characters without altering the familiar plot structure."
[2]
The musical had to fit into the 90-minute program with six commercial breaks, so it was divided into six short acts. In an interview with
Time
magazine, Hammerstein said that "It took me seven months to write the book and lyrics for
Cinderella
".
[2]
Rehearsals started on February 21, 1957. Emmy Award-winning director
Ralph Nelson
and choreographer Jonathan Lucas, who had choreographed for
The Milton Berle Show
, were both experienced with musical material on television. Rodgers' friend,
Robert Russell Bennett
, provided the orchestrations.
Alfredo Antonini
, a veteran with CBS, conducted. In early March, the company moved to CBS Television Color Studio 72,
[4]
the first CBS-TV color studio in New York and the smallest color studio in the CBS empire at the time. The 56 performers, 33 musicians and 80 stagehands and crew worked crammed into the small studio together with four giant
RCA TK-40A
color TV cameras, a wardrobe of up to 100 costumes, over half a dozen huge set pieces, and numerous props and special effects equipment. The orchestra played in a small room with special equipment to overcome the suppressed acoustics. CBS invested in a massive marketing campaign, as did the sponsors.
[2]
Ed Sullivan
also promoted the show, which would be seen in his usual Sunday night time slot, with an appearance by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II on the previous Sunday.
[1]
Synopsis
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Act I
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In the village square, the Town Crier proclaims: "The Prince Is Giving a Ball" to celebrate Prince Christopher's 21st birthday. The ladies of the kingdom are thrilled at the prospect of meeting him. Cinderella, whose father has died, takes care of the home of her ill-tempered and selfish stepmother and two stepsisters. She carries all of their shopping parcels for them, and when they return home, all three order Cinderella about. Left alone in her corner near the fire, she dreams of living an exotic life as a princess or anything other than a servant ("In My Own Little Corner"). Meanwhile, the King and Queen get ready for the big celebration ("Royal Dressing Room Scene") and the servants discuss the planning for the feast ("Your Majesties"). They hope that their son will find a suitable bride, but the Prince is a bit apprehensive about meeting all the eager women of the kingdom. The Queen is touched by overhearing the King's discussion with his son and tells him she loves him ("Boys and Girls Like You and Me" [sometimes omitted, not sung in any of the telecasts]).
As Cinderella's stepsisters get ready for the Ball, hoping that they will catch the Prince's eye, they laugh at Cinderella's dreams. After they leave Cinderella imagines having gone with them ("In My Own Little Corner" (reprise)). Cinderella's Fairy Godmother appears and is moved by Cinderella's wish to go to the Ball. She transforms Cinderella into a beautifully gowned young lady and her little mouse friends and a pumpkin into a glittering carriage with footmen ("Impossible; It's Possible"); Cinderella leaves for the Ball.
Act II
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Cinderella arrives at the palace at 11:30; before she enters, her Godmother warns her not to stay past midnight. The Prince is bored by the attention of all the young ladies with whom he has had to dance, including the stepsisters. Cinderella's grand entrance immediately attracts everyone's attention and intrigues the Prince. They dance together and instantly fall in love ("Ten Minutes Ago"). Seeing the Prince with a beauty whom they do not recognize, the stepsisters ask why he wouldn't prefer a "usual" girl like them ("Stepsisters' Lament"). As the Prince and Cinderella dance he declares his love for her ("Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?"). As they embrace, the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella flees before the magic wears off, but in her haste she leaves behind a glass slipper.
Act III
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The next morning, Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters reminisce about the Ball and find that Cinderella is very intuitive about what it must have been like going to the Ball ("When You're Driving Through the Moonlight") and dancing with the Prince ("A Lovely Night"). Meanwhile, the Prince is searching for the woman with whom he danced and who fled so quickly from the Ball. One of the royal guards tries the slipper on all the women of the kingdom ("The Search"). At Cinderella's house, the slipper will not fit any of the ladies. Cinderella's stepmother tries to steer the guard away from Cinderella, but she is not home; she is hiding in the Palace garden. The guard returns to the palace garden and informs the Prince that he has not found the missing girl. The guard then sees Cinderella hiding and places her under arrest. Prodded by the Fairy Godmother, he tries the slipper on Cinderella. It fits, and the Prince is called back to the garden where he recognizes his beloved ("Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" (reprise)). Cinderella and the Prince marry.
Musical numbers
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The original version contains the following songs:
[5]
- Act I
- "Overture" ? Orchestra
- "The Prince Is Giving a Ball" ? Town Crier and Chorus
- "Cinderella March" ? Orchestra
- "In My Own Little Corner" ? Cinderella
- "The Prince Is Giving a Ball" (reprise) ? Chorus
- "Your Majesties" (Royal Dressing Room Scene) ? King, Queen, Chef and Steward
- "In My Own Little Corner" (reprise) ? Cinderella
- "Impossible; It's Possible" ? Cinderella and Fairy Godmother
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- Act II
- "Gavotte" ? Orchestra
- "Ten Minutes Ago" ? Prince and Cinderella
- "Stepsisters' Lament" ? Stepsisters
- "Waltz for a Ball" ? Chorus
- "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" ? Prince and Cinderella
- "Never in a Thousand Years"
(eventually omitted from the production)
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- Act III
- "When You're Driving Through the Moonlight" ? Cinderella, Stepmother and Stepsisters
- "A Lovely Night" ? Cinderella, Stepmother and Stepsisters
- "The Search" ? Orchestra
- "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" (Reprise) ? Prince
- "Wedding" ? Orchestra
- "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" (Reprise) ? Chorus
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In some productions, additional numbers added include "Loneliness of Evening" (cut from
South Pacific
and introduced in the 1965 broadcast), a song for the prince; and "Boys and Girls like You and Me" (cut from
Oklahoma!
and subsequently other shows), for the queen and king (in the Royal Dressing Room Scene), which appears in the show's published vocal score.
[6]
[7]
[8]
The
1997 TV adaptation
added "
Falling in Love with Love
" for the Stepmother,
[9]
"
The Sweetest Sounds
" for Cinderella and the Prince, and "There's Music in You" (written for
Main Street to Broadway
), for the Fairy Godmother.
[10]
The
2013 Broadway production
was performed in two acts and included the songs "Me, Who Am I?" (cut from
Me & Juliet
), "Loneliness of Evening" and "Now Is the Time" (cut from
South Pacific
), "The Pursuit", and "There's Music in You".
[11]
Television productions
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1957 original production
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The original 1957 broadcast was directed by Nelson with choreography by Lucas and musical direction by Antonini. It starred Andrews in the title role and
Jon Cypher
as The Prince. It also featured
Howard Lindsay
as The King,
Dorothy Stickney
as The Queen,
Edie Adams
as the
Fairy Godmother
,
Kaye Ballard
and
Alice Ghostley
as stepsisters Portia and Joy,
Ilka Chase
as the Stepmother, and
Iggie Wolfington
as The Steward.
Joe Layton
appeared uncredited in the ensemble.
[12]
On March 31, 1957, at 8:00 pm Eastern time,
Cinderella
was broadcast live in the Eastern, Central and Mountain time zones in both
black and white
and
compatible color
; the West Coast received a delayed black and white-only broadcast starting at 8:00 pm Pacific time. Beyond the United States, it was carried by CBS affiliates in the U.S. territories of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico; in Canada it was broadcast on
CBC
.
[13]
It was produced for $376,000 and was heavily promoted by its sponsors,
Pepsi-Cola
and the Shulton Company (then maker of
Old Spice
).
[2]
The Nielsen TV rating for the program was 18,864,000 "homes reached during an average minute" of the broadcast.
[14]
More than 107 million viewers saw the broadcast, and Andrews was nominated for an
Emmy Award
for her performance.
[15]
[16]
One of the four color TV cameras failed during the live telecast, adding to the production's technical difficulties.
[17]
A black and white
kinescope
of the March 17, 1957, dress rehearsal survives (it was thought discarded, but was rediscovered in 2002)
[18]
and has been issued on DVD.
[19]
A similar film of the original CBS broadcast also survives and has been issued on DVD.
[
citation needed
]
There is no evidence that
Cinderella
was recorded on
videotape
, which
CBS
used at that time only to time-delay news programming for the stations on the West Coast. The equipment was not yet capable of recording color video.
[20]
1965 version
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After the musical's success in London and elsewhere as a stage production, the network decided to produce another television version. The 1957 premiere had been broadcast before color videotape was available, so only one performance could be shown. CBS mounted a new production in 1965, with Richard Rodgers as Executive Producer and written by Joseph Schrank. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and sung in their original settings. A new sequence opens the story: the Prince stops at Cinderella's house with his retinue for a drink of water after returning from his travels. Cinderella, home alone, and not knowing who the handsome traveler is until a page utters the words "Your Highness", kindly gives the Prince water from the well. After the Prince leaves, he sings "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for
South Pacific
in 1949 but not used in that musical.
[21]
Cinderella sings "In My Own Little Corner" before there is any mention of the prince giving a ball. The names of the stepsisters were changed from the original production, and the
Royal Dressing Room Scene
was omitted.
[2]
The 1965 version was directed by
Charles S. Dubin
[21]
with choreography by
Eugene Loring
and recorded on
videotape
(at
CBS Television City
in
Hollywood
) for later broadcast. The cast featured
Ginger Rogers
and
Walter Pidgeon
as the Queen and King;
Celeste Holm
as the Fairy Godmother;
Jo Van Fleet
as the Stepmother, with
Pat Carroll
and
Barbara Ruick
as her daughters Prunella and Esmerelda; and
Stuart Damon
as the Prince.
Lesley Ann Warren
, at age 18, played the title role.
[22]
The film also features rare on camera appearances by dubbers
Betty Noyes
and
Bill Lee
, who play a couple that briefly sing about their daughter (played by
Trudi Ames
).
[23]
The first broadcast was on February 22, 1965, and it was rebroadcast eight times through February 1974.
[2]
The 1965 debut had a Nielsen rating of 42.3, making it the highest-rated non-sports special on CBS from the beginning of the Nielsen ratings until 2009, and the 50th highest-rated show of any kind during that period.
[24]
1997 version
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The 1997 television remake was adapted by
Robert L. Freedman
and directed by
Robert Iscove
, with choreography by
Rob Marshall
. Produced by
Whitney Houston
and
Debra Martin Chase
for
Walt Disney Television
, it aired November 2, 1997. The
racially diverse
cast included
Brandy Norwood
as Cinderella,
Whitney Houston
as Cinderella's fairy godmother,
Bernadette Peters
as Cinderella's stepmother,
Paolo Montalban
as the prince,
Whoopi Goldberg
as the queen,
Victor Garber
as the king and
Jason Alexander
as the herald Lionel. Several songs were added, including "
Falling in Love with Love
" from the musical
The Boys from Syracuse
, sung by the Stepmother; "
The Sweetest Sounds
" from the musical
No Strings
, sung by Cinderella and the Prince; and "There's Music in You", written for the 1953 film
Main Street to Broadway
, sung as the finale by the Fairy Godmother.
[25]
Sixty million viewers watched the broadcast.
[26]
Several changes were made to the Hammerstein plot: The Fairy Godmother begins the story, explaining that nothing is impossible. The stepsisters' names are changed to Calliope and Minerva. Disguised as a peasant, the Prince (feeling isolated in the castle) wanders in the marketplace (worrying his herald, Lionel), meets Cinderella, and they find each other charming. At the ball, embarrassed by questions about her family and background, Cinderella escapes to the garden in tears, where the Fairy Godmother appears for moral support. After her stepmother returns from the ball and is particularly cruel, Cinderella packs her belongings to run away from home. Her Fairy Godmother advises her to share her feelings with the Prince. After trying the slipper on all the other maidens, the Prince and Lionel overtake Cinderella on her journey to freedom. Meeting her gaze, the Prince recognizes her and places the slipper on her foot. At their wedding, the Fairy Godmother blesses the couple.
Stage productions
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1958 to 2008
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The musical was first performed on stage at the
London Coliseum
in 1958 in holiday
pantomime
adaptation that also used songs from
Me & Juliet
.
Harold Fielding
produced this version, which opened on December 18, 1958, and played through the holiday season.
[2]
Yana (Pamella Guard), played Cinderella, with
Tommy Steele
,
Jimmy Edwards
,
Kenneth Williams
and
Betty Marsden
.
[27]
Stage versions began to appear in U.S. theaters by 1961.
[2]
The
Los Angeles Civic Light Opera
produced the show in 1990 featuring
Steve Allen
,
Jayne Meadows
, and
Rose-Marie
.
[28]
The
New York City Opera
produced the musical in 1993 and 1995 with
Sally Ann Howes
as The Fairy Godmother,
Crista Moore
as Cinderella, George Dvorsky as The Prince,
Nancy Marchand
(1993) and
Jean Stapleton
(1995) as The Stepmother,
George S. Irving
as The King and
Jane Powell
as The Queen. It revived the production in 2004 with
Eartha Kitt
as The Fairy Godmother,
Sarah Uriarte Berry
as Cinderella,
Christopher Sieber
as The Prince,
John "Lypsinka" Epperson
as The Stepmother,
Dick Van Patten
as The King,
Renee Taylor
as The Queen,
Lea DeLaria
as Joy and
Ana Gasteyer
as Portia.
[29]
A United States tour played from November 2000 through 2001 and starred Kitt as the Fairy Godmother,
Deborah Gibson
and later
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
and
Jessica Rush
as Cinderella,
Paolo Montalban
as the Prince, and a gender-bending Everett Quinton as the Stepmother,
[30]
[31]
stopping at the
Theater at Madison Square Garden
in 2001, where Sigler played the title role.
[32]
[33]
A 30-week Asian tour of
Cinderella
starred
Lea Salonga
and Australian Peter Saide. The production was directed by Bobby Garcia, with choreography by Vince Pesce. Costume design was by
Renato Balestra
, with sets by
David Gallo
. The tour started in
Manila
, Philippines, on July 29, 2008. The show then went on to several cities in China, including Xian, Zhengzhou, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Gunagzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. It then toured in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, and Japan.
[34]
A cast album was issued in 2008.
An all-female production of the musical in Japan in 2008 featured
J-Pop
group
Morning Musume
and veteran members of the
Takarazuka Revue
. The production ran throughout August 2008, at
Shinjuku Koma Theater
in Tokyo. The lead roles of Cinderella and the Prince were performed by Morning Musume members
Ai Takahashi
and
Risa Niigaki
.
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Broadway
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Douglas Carter Beane
wrote a new book for the musical's first
Broadway
production. In his plot, Cinderella opens Prince Topher's eyes to the injustice in the kingdom. The prince's parents have died, leaving the kingdom in the hands of a villainous minister who has been the prince's mentor and has duped his young charge into approving oppressive legislation.
[37]
The rebel Jean-Michel, a new character, and stepsister Gabrielle are in love and seek to overthrow the government. The score includes the best-known songs from the original version and four more songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalogue.
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The show, produced by Robyn Goodman,
[40]
began previews on Broadway on January 25 and officially opened on March 3, 2013, at the
Broadway Theatre
.
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[42]
Mark Brokaw
directed the production, with Josh Rhodes choreographing, and the cast included
Laura Osnes
in the title role,
Santino Fontana
as the Prince,
Victoria Clark
as crazy Marie/the Fairy Godmother,
Harriet Harris
as Ella's stepmother,
Peter Bartlett
as the Prime Minister,
Ann Harada
and Marla Mindelle as stepsisters Charlotte and Gabrielle, and Greg Hildreth as Jean-Michel.
[32]
[43]
Designers included
Anna Louizos
(sets),
William Ivey Long
(costumes) and
Kenneth Posner
(lighting).
[44]
The production was nominated for nine
Tony Awards
, winning one for Long's costume design.
[45]
Reviews were mixed, with most critics praising Osnes's performance.
[42]
[46]
[47]
Keke Palmer
was a replacement in the title role. A report in
The Guardian
commented that "casting an African American actor as such an iconic ? and typically pale ? character is emblematic of the progress Broadway is making, slowly and haltingly, in employing actors of color in a broader array of parts."
[48]
In September 2014, Lesley Ann Warren joined the cast during the curtain call to celebrate the 50th anniversary release of her 1965 television version.
[49]
The production closed on Broadway on January 3, 2015, after 41 previews and 770 regular performances.
[50]
National tours and international productions have followed.
[51]
Reception
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The 1957 version of
Cinderella
was seen by the largest audience in history at the time of its premiere: 107,000,000 people in the US: fully 60% of the country's population at that time.
[52]
Variety
estimated that 24.2 million households were tuned into the show, with an average of 4.43 viewers each. Jon Cypher later remembered leaving the studio a few minutes after the broadcast had ended and finding the
Manhattan
streets deserted because so many had stayed in to watch the broadcast.
[2]
A review in
The New York Times
by
Jack Gould
characterized the musical as "a pleasant
Cinderella
that lacked the magic touch." He wrote that the broadcast received an "extraordinary range of reactions; it was either unreservedly enjoyed, rather angrily rejected or generally approved, subject to significant reservations." He praised Andrews as a "beguiling vision" in "lovely color video". But he complained about the book ("What possessed Mr. Hammerstein to turn the stepsisters into distasteful
vaudeville
clowns?"); about errors in "the most elementary kind of showmanship;" about costume ("couldn't Cinderella have been dressed in a dreamlike ball gown of fantasy rather than a chic, form-fitting number?"); and the staging ("cramped ... excellent depth, but limited width marred the ballroom scene"). He judged the songs "not top-drawer Rodgers and Hammerstein" and "reminiscent and derivative of some of their earlier successes" but praised four of them and said: "In television, where original music is virtually nonexistent, these add up to quite a treat ... some current [Broadway] musicals cannot boast as much melodically."
[53]
The 1965 version was broadcast repeatedly. The 1997 production was the number one show of the week, with over 60 million viewers. It became the highest-rated TV musical in a generation. Although it was a hit with audiences, it received mixed reviews. Theater historian
John Kenrick
called it a "clumsy remake" of the musical but commented that Bernadette Peters' "shtick trying on the glass slipper is hilarious".
[54]
The New York Times
praised the performers (Montalban has "an old-fashioned luxurious voice"; Jason Alexander "provides comic relief"; Goldberg "winningly blends royal dignity with motherly meddling"; Peters "brings vigor and sly comedy") but commented that the musical "was always a pumpkin that never turned into a glittering coach ... the songs are lesser Rodgers and Hammerstein ... it doesn't take that final leap into pure magic. Often charming and sometimes ordinary, this is a cobbled-together
Cinderella
for the moment, not the ages."
[55]
Other critics, however, praised the presentation. One reviewer wrote: "Grade: A, a version both timely and timeless."
[56]
Another agreed: "this version has much to recommend it."
[57]
An encore broadcast on Valentine's Night 1998 drew another 15,000,000 viewers.
[2]
Reviews for the Broadway version were mixed.
[58]
Ben Brantley
of
The New York Times
called the 2013 Broadway production a "glittery patchwork of a show" that "wants to be reassuringly old-fashioned and refreshingly irreverent, sentimental and snarky, sincere and ironic, all at once." Brantley felt that the show "doesn't seem to know quite what" it wants to be.
[37]
The
Financial Times
praised the cast, especially Osnes, the costumes and the choreography and opined that "the production is an absolute joy, marred only by occasional slowness of pace."
[59]
Richard Zoglin
, writing for
Time
magazine, noted that the new production is "brightly colored, high spirited and well sung", but compared it unfavorably with the "emotionally alive" 1957 broadcast.
[60]
A reviewer from the
Chicago Tribune
wrote: "The fundamental problem with ... Beane's perplexing, wholly unromantic and mostly laugh-free new book ... is that it denies the audience the pleasure of instant reversals of fortune. ... This new version ends up collapsing the basic logic of the familiar story and tramples all over the musical soul of a score from another era".
[46]
On the other hand, the reviewer from
USA Today
liked the production, commenting that "Osnes and a gifted supporting cast make this fairy tale very much their own ? a scrumptious trifle that, for all its hokey moments, will charm theatergoers of all ages."
[42]
An
Associated Press
review praised Beane's script and wrote that it "crackles with sweetness and freshness, combining a little "
Monty Python's
Spamalot
" with some "
Les Miserables
". It also found the cast "first-rate" and the overall story "quirky, yet heart filled".
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Recordings
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Columbia Records
recorded the musical selections from the first telecast of
Cinderella
on March 18, 1957, nearly two weeks before the show aired, in monaural and stereophonic sound, releasing the mono version in 1957 and then the stereo version in 1958. The stereo version was later reissued on
CD
by
Sony
.
[2]
The
black-and-white
kinescope
recording made during the telecast was broadcast on
PBS
in
December 2004
as part of its
Great Performances
series. It was later released on DVD with a documentary including most of its original players, as well as a kinescope of Rodgers and Hammerstein's appearance on
The Ed Sullivan Show
the preceding Sunday, featuring Hammerstein reciting one of the songs to orchestral accompaniment.
[5]
In 1959
RCA Victor
released an abridged
Cinderella
with Mary Martin and
The Little Orchestra Society
, which was released on CD in 2010 (Sepia 1144).
[62]
A cast
LP album
of the 1965 telecast was also issued by
Columbia Masterworks Records
and on a Sony Masterworks CD. All three of the telecast versions of
Cinderella
have been released on DVD. A cast recording
of the 2013 Broadway production
was issued by Ghostlight Records in 2013.
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Awards and nominations
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1957 TV Special
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Year
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Award ceremony
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Category
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Nominee
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Result
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1958
|
Primetime Emmy Award
|
Actress - Best Single Performance - Lead or Support
|
Julie Andrews
|
Nominated
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Best Musical Contribution for Television
|
Richard Rodgers
(music score)
|
Nominated
|
Best Live Camera Work
|
CBS
|
Nominated
|
1997 TV Special
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Year
|
Award ceremony
|
Category
|
Nominee
|
Result
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1998
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Primetime Emmy Award
|
Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special
|
Whitney Houston
,
Debra Martin Chase
,
Craig Zadan
, David R. Ginsburg,
Neil Meron
, Chris Montan, Mike Moder
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program
|
Robert Iscove
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Music Direction
|
Paul Bogaev
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program
|
Randy Ser, Edward L. Rubin, Julie Kaye Fanton
|
Won
|
Outstanding Choreography
|
Rob Marshall
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Costume Design for a Variety or Music Program
|
Ellen Mirojnick
|
Nominated
|
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie
|
Jennifer Guerrero-Mazursky, Ellin La Var, Carla Farmer, Julia L. Walker,
Kimberly Kimble
, Lucia Mace
|
Nominated
|
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
|
Best Single Genre Television Presentation
|
Nominated
|
American Cinema Editors
|
Best Edited Two-Hour Movie for Commercial Television
|
Casey O. Rohrs & Tanya M. Swerling
|
Nominated
|
Excellence in Production Design Award
|
Variety or Awards Show, Music Special or Documentary
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Randy Ser & Edward J. Rubin
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Won
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Artios Award
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Best Casting for TV Movie of the Week
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Valorie Massalas,
Stuart Howard
, Amy Schecter
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Nominated
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NAACP Image Award
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Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
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Nominated
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Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
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Brandy Norwood
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Nominated
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Whoopi Goldberg
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Nominated
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Golden Reel Award
|
Best Sound Editing - Television Movies of the Week - Music
|
Richard Ford
|
Nominated
|
OFTA Television Award
|
Best Motion Picture Made for Television
|
Nominated
|
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture or Miniseries
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Whoopi Goldberg
|
Nominated
|
Bernadette Peters
|
Nominated
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Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture or Miniseries
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Nominated
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Best Costume Design in a Motion Picture or Miniseries
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Nominated
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Best Production Design in a Motion Picture or Miniseries
|
Won
|
Best Sound in a Motion Picture or Miniseries
|
Nominated
|
Satellite Awards
|
Best Supporting Actor ? Series, Miniseries or Television Film
|
Jason Alexander
|
Nominated
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Best Supporting Actress ? Series, Miniseries or Television Film
|
Bernadette Peters
|
Nominated
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1999
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Writers Guild of America
|
Children's Script
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Nominated
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