Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

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Summary: Magical
Review: Paolo Montalban made the most wonderful Prince Charming!! With his dashing good looks and his mystical, sweet, melodic voice. This guy will be going places. Bernadette Peters is the perfect stepmom.

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Summary: IT IS A MAGICAL FILM!!!
Review: Brandy did a great job as Cinderella. Whitney took my breath away in a great performance. The music was delightful. This is a film for the young and the young at heart.

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Summary: Not worth your time!
Review: The movie had wonderful cinematography, cool costumes and beautiful props. But that's as far as it goes.. Brandy made an awful Cinderella. The girl can sing but she can't act!!! Whoopi in this movie was not Whoopi Goldberg. I think it was an impostor. I had a chance to be a great movie but it failed...big time!

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Summary: Wonderful, colorful, and cheerful
Review: Brandy made a beautiful Cinderella. Whitney Houston did a great job too. I loved this movie. The singing and dancing made it more colorful and entertaining. I would say that this is for the young and old, not just for kids only. END

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Summary: Great film!!
Review: This version took a big risk and, eventhough its tough to see, it was a woderful film. True, Brandy doesn't have the best voice for R&H but her Cinderella was a stronger character and more believable, instead of the usual weak Cinderella. Having great B'dway stars like Bernadette Peters, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Victor Garber, Paolo Montalban and the two step sister brought life, woderful acting, and wonderful singing to the film. Even though Whitney Houston wasn't the best choice for the Fairy Godmother she produced the movie and you have to admit she can sing. The sets, costumes, and special effects were amazing and brought out the story book mood, something the other versions never did and R&H's score was beautifully brought back to its full glory that just wasn't in the 1965 production. Though the film has a few flaws it's a great film!!

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Summary: An Excellent Musical, but Why This Production?
Review: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical has an excellent score, and when it was premiered in 1957, both Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show to promote their musical, explaining that it was a "traditional retelling" of the classic story of Cinderella. Fortunately for them, they did not live to see this production, for they would surely have died had they seen it. Somehow even the score was not left intact, as a song from No Strings invaded the score, and the result was something short of catastrophic.

While the performers in the cast are great singers, their acting ability leaves MUCH to be desired. Brandy, who plays Cinderella, is no actress. Whoopi Goldberg and Jason Alexander, while beloved to audiences for what they do well, hardly seemed right for this story. Whitney Houston may be a great singer, but the suggestion of her being Cinderella's fairy godmother just makes no sense at all. There are some funny sequences here and there, but the whole production comes across as bombastic and unconvincing. For all the money that went into making this fiasco, the audience deserved a lot more than it gets. The original 1957 version is by far the best, and the 1965 version, while not nearly as good as the original, still greatly outshines this turkey.

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Summary: I like it
Review: I watched this in a foreign country and came to realize exactly how much the world has changed since the date of it's airing. Beside it appearing on television in my childhood (which makes me nostalgic enough), the songs are indeed catchy and the multicultural cast can at least pull off the gig.

Yes, it wasn't perfect. Yes, it was overdone in a lot of ways. However, I think it embodies a lot of the spirit of the late 1990s and the pre 9/11 world.

Look at what's on TV now, and compare, and THEN complain.

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Summary: Watch it every night.....
Review: i am a five year old boy who loves it and i loved it so much i will have to bring it on my next vacation in scottsdale which is in arizona and Brandy played Cinderella and i also loved the songs "impossible" and "my own little corner".

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Summary: Loved the casting... but disappointed
Review: As a brown mom with a brown child and a FREAK for the '65 version, I REALLY wanted to like this version. However, I hate it.

I loved the sets for this production... Bernadette Peters, Whoopi, Victor Garber, Jason Alexander are all terrific. GREAT camera work on Ten Minute Ago - you feel like ~you~ are waltzing and dizzy with love too...

I, for one, LOVED the multiracial casting... for the techies out there, let's assume, the prince was adopted - okay? I LIKED that my child would see a multiracial world where ~she~ could indeed be the princess who gets the prince (instead of it always going to the blonde or white girl).

The singing is bad. Brandy ruined In My Own Little Corner. Whitney overacts and distracts. Sigh.

I have soundtrack to the original '57 version which I play a lot for my little girl (who loves it).

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Summary: Less wonderful
Review: I am seeing this again -- right now -- for the first time in a while. Atrocious acting. Some good singing but otherwise, horrors, what have they tried to DO to this show? I'm not talking about the multiracial casting, but the sheer lack of chemistry, or joy, or whatever it is making this seem forced and fake.

And whoever thought the Leslie Ann Miller version was atrocious, let me just say as a 60s teenage girl that the words "Impossible Things Are Happening Every Day" were taped across the top of my bedroom mirror for years. Thank you.