Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella

[sundayclothes2]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#1

Posted: 4/25/12 at 11:29am

Victoria Clark - Fairy Godmother
Harriet Harris - Stepmother
Peter Bartlett - Prime Minister

Excited for Harriet Harris!
http://playbill.com/news/article/165280-Broadways-Cinderella-May-Be-Enchanted-By-Victoria-Clark-Harriet-Harris-and-Peter-Bartlett

[dreaming]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#2

Posted: 4/25/12 at 11:56am

I guess I wish the cast wasn't so whitewashed. Why couldn't we have some diversity here? It's a fairy tale. If ethnically diverse casting could be present anywhere, it's most definitely here.

[North2009]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#2

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:06pm

Recently saw Harriet Harris in HAY FEVER here in Minneapolis at the Guthrie - BRILLIANT take on the role.

[henrikegerman]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#3

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:08pm

Impeccable casting.

[madbrian]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#4

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:29pm

That's just about the best casting news I've heard in awhile. I saw Harris in a regional production of Noises Off here in NJ, and she was brilliant as Dottie.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[beautywickedlover]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#5

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:40pm

A prime minister in the musical, that's interesting.

[AnythingGoes2]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#6

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:45pm

If your right for the role. Your right for for the role, and these are right for the roles!! Why must they ethnic cast at least a proportion of the roles if it doesn't depend on it.

Updated On: 4/26/12 at 12:45 PM

[darquegk]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#7

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:50pm

I would be willing to guess that the walk on roles of the Steward, the Chef and the Butler have been conflated into one supporting comic role.

[degrassifan]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#8

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:51pm

I guess Prince Christopher's kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.

And the playbill article is incorrect about the original script being based on the Grimm Brothers' version. It's just a little pet peeve of mine that people seem to forget about Charles Perrault, whose version is the Cinderella most books, plays, and films are based on.

Updated On: 4/25/12 at 12:51 PM

[dreaming]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#9

Posted: 4/25/12 at 12:58pm

Updated On: 4/25/12 at 12:58 PM

[PalJoey]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#10

Posted: 4/25/12 at 1:05pm

Isn't Peter Bartlett diverse?

[E.Davis]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#11

Posted: 4/25/12 at 1:34pm

I feel like the Prime Minister is an expanded role of the Steward, more in the line of Jason Alexander's Steward from the movie.

"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-

[henrikegerman]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#12

Posted: 4/25/12 at 1:37pm

"Recently saw Harriet Harris in HAY FEVER here in Minneapolis at the Guthrie - BRILLIANT take on the role."

Not surprised, many years ago I saw Harris - then a brilliant, beautiful young actress, long before her character role fame - at the Guthrie as Roxane in Cyrano and Elmire in Tartuffe.

Updated On: 4/25/12 at 01:37 PM

[Mildred Plotka]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#13

Posted: 4/25/12 at 1:57pm

Maybe they, GASP!, cast the best people for the roles? I doubt they sat in casting and said ONLY WHITE PEOPLE!

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

[Reginald Tresilian]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#14

Posted: 4/25/12 at 2:33pm

Henrik, I saw her as Ophelia way back when.

[PalJoey]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#15

Posted: 4/25/12 at 3:06pm

She made a haunting Ophelia, actually.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella#16

Posted: 4/25/12 at 3:37pm

Joey, he's versatile not diverse.

I hear Ann Herada is gonna be a stepsister, how's that?