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A recording? Are you mad? Let's face it, this is "Rodgers and Hammerstein's CINDERELLA"(TM) in the same way that last year's disaster was called "The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS"(TM).
And I DO mean (TM) - corporate disasters.

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Updated On: 1/31/13 at 10:48 PM

I found Sondheim taking offense to "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" a little silly, but now that it's happening to a title I'm more familiar with, and remember fondly from my childhood, I sort of wish they would be honest to the public. At least the book I'm familiar with was still based heavily on the original. This is something completely different. They should call it just "Cinderella" or "Douglas Carter Bean's Cinderella." If they're so hellbent on the Rodgers and Hammerstein brand contributing to ticket sales I wouldn't mind if they removed the apostrophe and the "s" and just had Rodgers and Hammerstein above the title, but not specifically refer to it as theirs, because it's not.

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Ankles Aweigh.

And I'm glad it was recorded.

And Hallelujah, Baby won the Tony for best musical after it had already closed.

In any case, my point is that recordings and awards alone are not the measure of a show's value. I love HALLELUJAH, BABY!, but Tony or not, I wouldn't cite that win alone as proving the show's worth. Those kinds of arguments are built on sand.

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^ Yuck. What a sour apple.

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The continued discussion about using R&H in the title of the show to borders on the ignorant. There are TWO musical versions of Cinderella. The first was the Disney animated feature, still incredibly popular with kids, which features such well known songs as "Bibbity Bobbity Boo." This was followed several years later by the first R&H production, the TV production starring Julie Andrews, and which, as we all know well, has been remade several times.

If "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" was NOT the name of the current Broadway musical, there would have no doubt been boundless criticism that would have alleged deceptive marketing, as many might well have expected to have seen the Disney version brought to the stage. So by using R&H in the title, the producers eliminated any possibility of confusion. THEY DID THE RIGHT THING. But I guess on this board, no good deed goes unpunished, as they say. And by the way, did R&H not write every bit of music and every lyric for this show?

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Is this true "If "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" was NOT the name of the current Broadway musical, there would have no doubt been boundless criticism that would have alleged deceptive marketing, as many might well have expected to have seen the Disney version brought to the stage. So by using R&H in the title, the producers eliminated any possibility of confusion." ?

They sure did go the Disney route with the logo.

And despite using the R&H moniker, the show is very different from the original and the logo suggests the traditional tale here (and is VERY DISNEY)

My initial criticism for this show was why bring this show to bway? Now it's about the marketing for the show. It's all so strange.

Updated On: 2/1/13 at 01:07 PM

To be honest, anyone who thought that this musical would go on Broadway without a vast expansion of the book is incredibly naive. In the end, it is STILL Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. All the songs are still there. It is still the basic Cinderella story. So, why would you think it is false advertising? There is literally nothing in the original book or remakes that make it significantly different from the basic & other Cinderella tales, so why would you think people would go in expecting what they've seen on-screen? Also, there are THREE different versions of R&H's Cinderella, and each has a different beginning, middle, and end. Which one would people be expecting to see? If it's more like the 1997 version, you would displease people who were expecting the previous versions. If it were more like the 1957 version, you would displease people who would say it was too traditional and simple. Therefore, the happy medium is taking the best out of each version and expanding it with new characters and new motives.

Don't worry, RaisedOnMusicals, I understood what you meant. Others were just being difficult. If it were Disney's Cinderella, it would say "Disney's Cinderella." And, they did not go the route of the Disney film with the logo like finebydesign suggested. The glass slipper pictured in the show's poster is different than the one from the Disney film anyway.

According to ATC, all political/topical jokes were missing tonight.

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=2118779

There's no curtain call? And where did you get from that post there were no political references?

Updated On: 2/1/13 at 11:45 PM

The first sentence states

Topical/political jokes? Not tonight. All gone.