However, in their attempts to return to the mice at the top of Cinderella's tower, they run into the Stepmother's cat, named Lucifer. Jacque and some other mice show Gus around the house, and out into the yard behind the house to get corn that Cinderella is giving the other animals. The rotund little mouse is at first scared, but upon Jacque and Cinderella welcoming him, they give him some clothes, and a new name: Octavius.but for short, they call him Gus. One day, a little mouse named Jacque informs her that a new mouse has been caught in a trap. She befriends a number of little birds and mice, of which she has made little clothing for several of them. ![]() Even though her life's conditions are deplorable, she still tries to keep herself going, by dreaming of a better life someday. In the end, Cinderella is forced into becoming a servant in her own household, attending to her Stepfamily, and living in a high tower on the family property. The chateau soon falls into disrepair, and the family fortune is spent up on the two Stepdaughters. ![]() The Stepmother chooses to focus all her attention to that of her own daughters, leading to a downfall of the family estate. However, upon the death of Cinderella's father, her Stepmother reveals a cruelty and jealous towards Cinderella's charms and beauty. ![]() Feeling that his daughter needed "a mother's care," he remarried a woman with two daughters of her own, named Anastasia, and Drizella. The film opens in a tiny kingdom, and shows us a chateau, wherein lives a widowed gentleman, and his daughter, Cinderella. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, led by Gus and Jaq, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, only for the stepsisters to immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. When her father dies, too, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. “This Cinderella is a theatrical banquet for the eyes” THE TELEGRAPHĪudio: Dolby 2.0 Stereo + 5.In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Koen Kessels draws splendid playing from the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. ![]() The piece ends with a vast celestial body melting on to the stage. After a terrific opening, he transforms the potently grim kitchen into a dream-like, star-speckled fantasia-cum nightmare: a giant friendly frog and a pair of lively lizards help dress Cinderella for the ball the glittering carriage, like spun sugar, folds itself together and Cinderella vanishes at the stroke of midnight through the whirring mechanism of a simply amazing clock. But the show is made truly heartwarming through the vision of Cinderella’s suffering being transformed into deserved joy as she meets her Prince and lives happily ever after.ĭesigner John Macfarlane has conjured up a magical world to bring this much loved fairytale to life. And the regal revelling at the ball is given a modern edge as the dancers enjoy a cup cake or two. Their raucous behaviour, as they attempt to attract the attention of every eligible bachelor they see, is brought to life with hilariously faulty footwork. The sisters, Skinny (Gaylene Cummerfield) and Dumpy (Carol-Anne Millar, having fun in a fat suit) tread a nimble line between comedy and nastiness, while never descending to caricature. Macfarlaneīirmingham Royal Ballet’s award-winning chief choreographer, David Bintley, creates his own stunning new Cinderella fairy story, returning to the essence of the 17th-century original.Įlisha Willis’s forlorn and palely loitering Cinders is brutally treated by her two bullying stepsisters in their mouldering kitchen, encouraged by their wicked witch of a mother, the wonderfully Cruella De Vil-like Marion Tait. $ ĭirector and Choreographer: David Bintley
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