Cinderella
Shawnee Theatre in the Park 7710 Renner Road, Shawnee, Kansas 66204
CINDERELLA - JULY 2-10, 2021
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
New Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Original Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Orchestrations by Danny Troob
Music Adaptation & Arrangements by David Chase
Directed by Kevin Bogan
Ella is the most overworked girl in fairytale history. She’s doomed to a life of waiting hand and foot on her atrocious stepmother, Madame, and stepsisters, Gabrielle and Charlotte, until one night her fairy godmother appears and changes her life forever.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a musical theatre legend. This enduring, magical tale of an unlikely princess was originally conceived as a 1957 CBS television special starring Julie Andrews, and over the ensuing decades it has been revamped twice for Broadway before becoming a smash hit movie starring Brandy and Whitney Houston. In 2013 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella was brought back to contemporary theatre to become, not just the story of a girl who is magically transformed into a princess, but the story of a young woman who fights for the downtrodden, always sees the good in others, is willing to make friends in the most unlikely places, and uses her passion to help create a better world.
Nominated for nine Tony Awards®, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella is a magical confection for the whole family that includes audience and performer favorites, “In My Own Little Corner”, “Stepsister’s Lament”, and “Ten Minutes Ago”.
RATED: PG
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella runs approximately 2.5 hours with one 15 minute intermission.