Paper Mill's Cinderella - Colorblind Casting

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Paper Mill's Cinderella - Colorblind Casting

Posted: 10/7/05 at 12:25am

I just got a direct mailing from Paper Mill Playhouse advertising their upcoming production of Cinderella. The dreamy Paolo Montalban (Manjiro in the recent Pacific Overtures) is the Prince. Three cheers to Paper Mill for thinking outside the box and making a bold casting move. (Suzzanne Douglas is the Fairy Godmother but that role has been cast creatively before, with Eartha Kitt playing the role at City Opera). But I can't recall a non-white guy ever playing the Prince before. I'm dusting off my NJ Transit train schedule.
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Posted: 10/7/05 at 12:29am

Actually colorblind Cinderella has been done before.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128996/

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 12:29am

I'm happy Paulo is in the role. FYI - he was on the tour and also in Disney's version that was on TV with Brandy as Cinderella.

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 12:31am

Yeah, he's been playing this role for a while (and good for him).

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 1:05am

Well color me embarassed. I guess I'm not paying as much attention as I should be. Thanks for enlightening me guys.

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 1:38am

No reason to be embarrassed, Hushpuppy. Good for Paolo. I think the first time I saw him was in the Disney 'Cinderella' movie, so thumb's-up to Brandy and Whitney Houston (and the film) for giving him such a royal opportunity. He also was excellent as Eglamour in 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' in Central Park.
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Posted: 10/7/05 at 3:13am

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 3:19am

My sister was only 9 when that movie came out and even she wondered how a white man and a black woman could produce an Asian child.

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 3:40am

i loved him in that role! I thought he was so cute!!!! and Victor Garber and Whoopi Goldberg made me so happy cause they are like my favorite actors.

sweet, I live so close to papermill! i should go see him in it!

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 6:26am

orangeskittles-so did me and my sister!

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 7:51am

The Disney movie had an Asian son, a caucasian king and a black queen. Ahead of its time. Disney also did a color blind Annie with a Caucasian Warbucks getting together with his black assistant at the end. WOW...what a novel concept. Love among the races!

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 8:10am

I did several shows with Paolo back in the early 90's and he is a joy to work with - sweet, funny, kind, and easy on the eyes - I'm very happy for his success (he was in As You Like It in CP this summer, also)

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 9:45am

was your sister totally accepting of the pumpkin becoming a coach, the fairy godmother, cindy's ragged dress turning into a gown? in a fairytale where rodents speak & dance, anything goes.

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 11:08am

skittles, it must have been the mailman

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 11:16am

He was great in the last tour (as was Eartha Kitt, of course).

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Posted: 10/7/05 at 11:19am

Elphaba, that's what was funny about it. My sister immediately suspected Whoopi Goldberg had an affair and Victor Garber wasn't his real father. Probably an argument for why she shouldn't have been watching soaps with my mom, but it was just funny that she made got this idea from a Disney movie.

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