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Thanks for the answers, I feel rather stupid I didn't pick up on it being a nickname, especially having played the herald before.

degrassifan, the Your Majesty motif reoccurs throughout, although there isn't really a chance for more than a few bars at a time.

Yeah, but it most likely won't be in the cast recording, and I won't be seeing the show any time soon.

As for Topher, don't worry, I asked the exact same question a couple of months ago. I thought they had changed the lyrics to The Prince is Giving a Ball as well. I didn't realize till someone else point it out here that Topher was short for Christopher. Imagine how dumb I felt.

Degrassifan,

The interpolated songs are not first class R & H, and added nothing to the show but length. The ones that were cut won't be missed. It would ne nice, though, if they could be recorded as bonus tracks.

Hildegarde recorded "I Haven't Got a Worry in the World," on one of her albums, and she sang it very nicely. I hope you'll be able to track it down.

Saw it tonight Thursday Feb 21. Wonderful costumes. Nice Sets. The overture was lush and joyful. The music sounded great. The cast was mostly right on. But the show went on and on and on.

First there was a ball. Then there was a banquet. What next--the Prince is giving a Bah Mitzvah? I felt like taking my remote and fast forwarding... but damn---there was no remote.

I thought they should have cut some songs. I think the song they should cut is When you're dancing at moonlight. And I love dance in musicals but some of those ballets went on and on.

I loved Ann Harada. I thought comedy wise she stole the evening. Quite enjoyable.
Also nice work from Harriet Harris and Peter Bartlett.

I also loved Santino Fontana as the Prince. i found him ...charming. Laura Osnes (whom I adore especially in the under appreciated Bonnie and Clyde) was good but gave me exactly what I expected; an ingenue turn. Good job. No more. No less.

I found it overall annoyingly vapid musical comedy. I just met you but where going to show you how to help the peasants. And have democracy. And have an election. And avoid communism.

So much good work on sets, costumes, lush gorgeous music but oh so long and oh so vapid.

Updated On: 2/21/13 at 11:49 PM

"I think the song they should cut is When you're dancing at moonlight."

Wait....do you mean shorten it or cut it all together? I can't imagine When You're Driving Through the Moonlight cut at all. I mean, something has to lead to A Lovely Night...

Updated On: 2/22/13 at 10:27 AM

fairy godmother's headpiece....



sooooo Madonna circa 2009.

done.



http://www.millionlooks.com/our-vision/madonna-new-face-of-dolce-gabbana/




bunny ears

Updated On: 2/22/13 at 02:58 PM

I saw this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it! I had a very long post, but have no idea what happened to it. : ) Short version.....I thought everyone was very good in each role. Didn't think the set looked tacky at all. Still scratching my head about the gold gown. Well done. Loved the footman and the coachman/fox, raccoon sequences.

I would prefer a different gown and headpiece for the fairy godmother. Is that horns? Is it just used because it's collapsible? Are the globes on the sides of her gown there to help her fly? I was very impressed with her voice. Whoever said Laura Osnes was born to sing R&H, I agree. I do think Harriet Harris deserves her own song. I also think that "the powers that be" are reading your thread and listening to you.

"I read the Wall Street Journal article about the show today. I think it wise of Hammerstein to not make the step-family "cold and cruel" like Lady Tremaine and her daughters, Drizella and Anastasia, from the 1950 film. It was better in the musical to make them more human and three-dimensional. I've always felt that way about them in three televised adaptations."

I've always felt that out of every Cinderella story that I've read and seen, the stepfamily in the R&H version are the nicest. Although, only the 1997 version gave a reason as to why the stepfamily hated Cinderella in the first place. Is there a reason as to their hatred in this new version?

regarding the proposed cut song:
II made me look at my watch and say
"Why am I listening to this?" It doesn't further the plot.
Just gives Cinderella and her sisters and stepmother a boring number that
slows the damn thing down.

The 1950 Disney version gave a reason as to why the stepfamily hated Cinderella - it was because she was so much more beautiful and charming than them.

Also, no, Cinderella did not leave her slipper on purpose in the original French Perrault version.

Sorry, I meant that out of the three R&H versions, the 1997 retelling was the only one that gave a reason for their hatred.

Performance is scheduled for 6 PM. I think, based on other shows, that reviews start to trickle in within an hour or so of that start time.

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In this version do the step sisters and step mother realize Cinderella at the ball? I know most versions it's always "that girl looks very familiar".