Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief inspiration of this play by Joe Master-off is the tale of Cinderella, and for those who might otherwise miss this point, Julie Harris, as Ruth Arnold, mentions the fact several times per act. Of course, there is a switch to the fairy tale: Cinderella doesn't marry the Prince (who proves something of a scoundrel) but rather weds plain old Richard in Milwaukee...
Last week's 42-member visiting troupe, now at the Metropolitan Opera House in the middle of a three-month cross-country tour, avoided the more blatantly Westernized confections in the repertory, such as Broadway Cinderella, in which the chorus line appears in white top hats and tails. Instead they concentrated on a number of vaguely oriental-flavored exercises, whose paper-thin plots were bolstered with barbarically blazing sets and sumptuously encrusted costumes. Pastel-colored paper globes hung in grapelike clusters, spangled parasols twirled like colored tops, flowery kimonos fluttered beneath frozen comic masks...
Already things had threatened to get out of hand. The Norwegian press snorted at U.S. rhapsodies about the "Cinderella" marriage, testily pointed out that Anne-Marie's brief stint as a U.S. housemaid (one year) was common European practice for well-brought-up girls, who often serve au pair* in a foreign country. Anne-Marie should not even be called a poor girl, protested one paper, because "everybody is poor in comparison with the Rockefellers...
After 3½ years and nearly 1,500 performances of My Fair Lady in Manhattan and London, Musicomedienne Julie Andrews stepped out of the Cinderella role of Eliza Doolittle for the last time in London's Drury Lane Theater. Confessed Julie: "I never really got the part under control. I got very close to it sometimes...
Magic with Mary Martin (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). A superspecial Easter egg, live and in color. Part I is for the kids: songs from Cinderella and Peter Pan, plus an original new work by Richard Rodgers' two composer-daughters. In Part II, Music with Mary Martin (NBC, 8-9 p.m.), Mary does songs from her own Broadway musicals...