Which Animals Are In The Cinderella Play Script

Cinderella - Sense of humour and romance beautifully woven together with a generous touch on of magic in this lively version of the timeless favorite and e'er beloved French tale. two Acts. 7 major characters; 5 women, 2 men. Bandage size easily expandable. For larger groups we recommend our delightfully entertaining EXPANDED Cast Version of this script, which has a total of 37 individual roles, (25 women and 12 men - 5 of which are gender flexible). The larger cast version offers maximum casting flexibility to the director; roles can be doubled up or even further expanded to arrange the size of the performing group. Suggested Settings to correspond: (I) a street in the town and the Frumppkin home, (II) the palace ballroom, and later (while the Prince tries the glass slipper on members of the audience) the set changes back to the Act I setting. (In the EXPANDED Cast Version an boosted area "somewhere in the palace" is needed at the kickoff of the play.) Costumes: romantic fairy tale. Approximate Playing Time: 65 - 75 minutes.

The EXPANDED Cast Version introduces a delightful collection of additional characters - a whimsically amusing assistant for the Fairy Godmother, members of the Purple family and entourage - such as Male monarch Ferdinando and Queen Isabellina, Prince Philip'due south seven sisters, a variety of cousins and courtiers, including Chancellor Count Pythagoras Von Euclid, the Earl of Paradox, the Duchess of Dullsomore, and more than. Other characters include a comical group of Frumppkin neighbors (lively young ladies and their Ambitious Mamas) who as well attend the ball and compete with Thelma and Gertrude in their unsuccessful attempt to convince Prince Philip to choose one of them to be his bride.

NOTE: Suggested Playing Time is a maximum estimation based on a full-calibration production with musical augmentation, set changes and extensive audience reactions. Your own playing fourth dimension may be shorter.

When ordering this play please specify whether you want the
EXPANDED cast version or the ensemble cast version.

Cinderella's Fairy Godmother watches over her, providing several magical "coincidences" that touch the outcome of the story. When the King proclaims a ball will be held, so that his son, Prince Philip, may discover a wife, Frieda Frumppkin, Cinderella'southward stepmother, is thrilled that her daughters, Thelma and Gertrude, are invited. When the invitations are delivered, Prince Philip "coincidentally" meets Cinderella in the garden. He admires the white roses, and suggests that she attend the ball. Frieda laughs at the idea; Cinderella at the ball? What would she wear?

The rest of the twenty-four hours the Frumppkin household is in a turmoil of frenetic preparation. Frieda badly tries to teach a few ladylike manners to her bad-mannered daughters - with minimal success. Finally, they go, and Cinderella breathes a sigh of relief as they barge out the door. Moments later, the Fairy Godmother appears, and bidding Cinderella to hasten, provides her with a gown, slippers, and a coach. Cinderella pins white roses into her hair, and the Godmother sends her off.

At the brawl, Frieda monopolizes Businesswoman Pickford. Thelma and Gertrude debate over the Prince, both trying to dance with him at once. Then Cinderella arrives, and much to the chagrin of the Frumppkins, (who don't recognize her), the Prince goes immediately to her side. They trip the light fantastic; he admires the white roses she wears. He'southward certain they've met before; she merely smiles. At midnight, she bids him a hasty cheerio, and "coincidentally" leaves one of her slippers behind.

On the side by side mean solar day, the adamant Prince, trying to detect her, commands every lady in the country to try on the slipper. His final stop is the Frumppkin'south, where, predictably, Thelma and Gertrude both fail to cram a foot into the shoe. As he sadly turns to become, his thoughts plough "by coincidence" to white roses. When, at his demand, Cinderella appears, he recognizes her at once; non needing the proof she offers past pulling the other slipper from her pocket. He begs her forgiveness; he did not immediately understand the clues she left, and by the way, will she marry him? When she accepts, Frieda tells Thelma and Gertrude that at present they will do the housework. The Fairy Godmother waves farewell; Cinderella doesn't demand whatever more "coincidences."

Click here for a sample of Cinderella (Regular Version).

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Three centuries of beautiful illustrations from a dozen English language versions of the beloved
CINDERELLA fairy tale can be found at THE CINDERELLA Projection - a work compiled from the de Grummond
Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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