Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front of flat No. 15A, and behind it a disheveled stagehand snoozed. Two workmen sipped...
...cast," bellowed the stage manager. "Positions, please, for the waltz." Dancers scurried into place under the warm floodlights. Choreographer Jonathan Lucas scampered up a ladder and called: "Pretty faces now; pretty figures, too. Do not bump the Queen, do not bump the Prince and, above all, do NOT bump Cinderella." As Cinderella and her Prince, played by Jon Cypher, a rangy (6 ft. 2 in.) young (25) newcomer from Brooklyn, moved through the dancers, Director Nelson followed closely, again imitating a camera. It was a confused yet sightly romp...
...screeched from across the room. The sets towered up to within an inch of the overhead pipes and lights. "The street scene is this shape because the studio is this shape." said Designer Bill Eckart. He was worried: "I don't know what we'll do about Cinderella's coach and horses. I guess we'll have to film them, because everyone here is afraid of horses...
...selections composed for the show, the Rodgers tunes were light and a little thin, the Hammerstein lyrics were a little too sugary. There was still time to lace them with some tartness. "But after all," commented the other stepsister, Kaye Ballard, with a shrug of resignation, "it is Cinderella...
Peering serenely at the clutter, Lyricist Hammerstein found the demands of TV tolerable. "It took me seven months to write the lyrics and book for Cinderella. It takes a year to write a Broadway show. We plan a full run-through Sunday, and we'll make a black and white Kinescope. That's our New Haven opening. One week before the show and we'll make another Kine. That's Boston. TV's easier than theater because it's very intimate, very fluid. You have dissolves, quick cuts and no exit problems. Being ignorant...