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Cinderella is the name of a U.S. production broadcast live (except on the west coast) on March 31, 1957. It was the first and only project written for television by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote their version of the Cinderella fairy tale specifically for CBS television, enticed (as Rodgers wrote in his autobiography) by the opportunity to write for Julie Andrews, who was to play the title role.
Besides Andrews, the New York City production starred Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney (as the King and Queen), Edie Adams (Fairy Godmother), Kaye Ballard and Alice Ghostley (the Stepsisters), Ilka Chase (the Stepmother), and Jon Cypher (the Prince). It also included a 28-piece orchestra, 20 dancers, seven ensemble singers, among others.
It was produced for $375,000 (very expensive for its time), and heavily promoted by its sponsors, Pepsi-Cola and the Shulton Company, maker of Old Spice). The promotion and an appearance by Rodgers and Hammerstein on The Ed Sullivan Show the week before helped to give the telecast an audience of 107 million people, the largest achieved by that time (and more than any subsequent television series episode as of 2004).
A black-and-white kinescope recording of the color telecast was re-broadcast on PBS in December 2004 as part of its Great Performances series.
List of songs
- Overture
- In My Own Little Corner
- The Prince Is Giving A Ball
- Royal Dressing Room Scene
- In My Own Little Corner (Reprise)
- Impossible; It's Possible
- Gavotte
- Ten Minutes Ago
- Stepsisters' Lament
- Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
- When You're Driving Through Moonlight
- A Lovely Night
- The Search
- The Wedding
- Mother And Daughter March
- In My Own Little Corner
- Waltz For A Ball
- A Lovely Night
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