Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in Manhattan to dance the title role in NBC-TV's go-minute spectacular, Cinderella, Dame Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), announced that on TV "you have to keep your mind skinned" because TV cameras are all over (and a stage audience is just out front). Though Dancer Fonteyn likes to perform on TV, she does not like to look at it: "Wastes too much time. It's paralyzing...
...Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Cinderella, the Prokofiev ballet danced by Margot Fonteyn and Britain's Royal Ballet (color...
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Cinderella played last week to an audience that, even discounting CBS's inflated guess of 107 million, was probably the largest in the history of entertainment. The show did nothing else to make history, though it made 90 minutes pass prettily and smoothly. Sweet-voiced Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews fitted the heroine's role as if it were a glass slipper. The hero of the evening was Composer Richard (Oklahoma!, The King and I) Rodgers, who even imitating Richard Rodgers gives a better imitation than anyone else. At least two songs...
...Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled to soften the children's fable for grownups by reforming the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters into merely pesky comic types. While making one of TV's biggest splashes and giving impetus to a cycle of fairy tales,* Cinderella also displayed the gulf that can still yawn between TV standards and those of the theater, by which Cinderella's authors are usually judged. Although Authors R. and H. are bravely talking of adapting it for the theater, the show offered little reason to believe that it could last much longer...
...Cinderella (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Rodgers and Hammerstein's first TV musical, starring Julie Andrews, Edith Adams, Dorothy Stickney, Howard Lindsay...