Victoria Clark, Harriet Harris, and Peter Bartlett join Cinderella

[sundayclothes2]

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]

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]

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]

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

Impeccable casting.

[madbrian]

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.

[beautywickedlover]

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

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

[AnythingGoes2]

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]

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]

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]

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

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

[PalJoey]

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

Isn't Peter Bartlett diverse?

[E.Davis]

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.

[henrikegerman]

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]

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!

[Reginald Tresilian]

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

Henrik, I saw her as Ophelia way back when.

[PalJoey]

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

She made a haunting Ophelia, actually.

[CurtainPullDowner]

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?