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...stylized to appear textured, ancient, and gnarled, appropriately evoking the atmosphere of a supernatural forest. Reddout, in her direction, makes excellent use of this space. One tree doubles as Rapunzel’s tower; another becomes a vehicle for a benevolent apparition who resides at the grave of Cinderella??s mother...
...room full of the corpses of her husband’s former wives. The original “Little Mermaid,” by Hans Christian Andersen, finds Ariel’s less-lucky predecessor forfeiting her life to save her prince. In the Grimms’ fairy tale, Cinderella??s stepsisters mutilate themselves in order to squeeze their feet into the glass slipper. The grim plots and endings don’t negate the fact that they’re all magnificent stories. The problem with Kurt Schwitters’ Merz stories is that they seem...
However, a good comedy needs wit, and a powerful fairy-tale needs phantasmagoric romance, and James Kudelka’s “Cinderella?? had neither. In the end, though, it’s still a “Cinderella?? story, which was acknowledged both by the very receptive audience and the same paparazzo snagging a last photo of the bride as the curtain came down. As Cinderella evolves from dreamy chamber-maiden into social royalty, she progresses, with thrilling parallelism, from soft canvas slippers to Swarovski-encrusted pointe shoes. The resulting three-act trajectory surely...
Later in the week, I stroll through the sprawling lawn at the center of nearby Prospect Park. As I go to get a drink from a water fountain, I meet a young girl, perhaps three or four years old, who is holding a hollowed out version of Cinderella??s carriage with a pour spout. I watch her give it to her brother, who drinks from it in large silent gulps. She looks at me and says, “My Cinderella!”—a proud proclamation of her desire to share with...
...refer to it as “the” McMansion because there is really only one version sold. Designed (roughly) as a one-fiftieth scale model of the palace of Versailles, with a few elements taken from Cinderella??s Castle, the same McMansion is found all the way from Detroit to Dubuque, and everywhere in between...