Rodgers & Hammerstein’s "Cinderella"

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella”

Cinderella is a teenage girl forced to do all of the menial tasks in the home she shares with her coldhearted stepmother and homely stepsisters. One day when home alone, Cinderella shares a cup of water with a thirsty and handsome traveler, not realizing until he continues on his journey that he is the crown prince of the kingdom. Shortly thereafter, the king and queen invite every young maiden in the kingdom to a royal ball so that the crown prince can find a girl to marry. Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters go to the ball, leaving Cinderella behind to wish about how her life could be. While she is daydreaming, she is visited by her fairy godmother, who makes it possible for her wishes to come true.

Stars Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon with Celeste Holm, Jo Van Fleet, Barbara Ruick, Pat Carroll, Walter Pidgeon, and Ginger Rogers as the Queen. Originally broadcast in the United States on February 22, 1965.

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Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

00:00 – Overture (Orchestra)
09:24 – Loneliness of Evening (Stuart Damon)
11:58 – Cinderella March (Orchestra)
16:16 – In My Own Little Corner (Lesley Ann Warren)
20:47 – The Prince Is Giving a Ball (Don Heitgerd, Ensemble)
27:58 – In My Own Little Corner (Reprise) (Lesley Ann Warren)
33:07 – Impossible/It’s Possible (Celeste Holm, Lesley Ann Warren)
39:03 – Gavotte (Orchestra)
47:10 – Waltz for a Ball (Orchestra)
49:00 – Ten Minutes Ago (Stuart Damon, Lesley Ann Warren)
52:37 – Stepsisters’ Lament (Barbara Ruick, Pat Carroll)
54:43 – Ten Minutes Ago (Reprise) (Ensemble)
57:07 – Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful? (Stuart Damon, Lesley Ann Warren)
1:03:41 – When You’re Driving Through the Moonlight (Lesley Ann Warren, Jo Van Fleet, Barbara Ruick, Pat Carroll)
1:06:51 – A Lovely Night (Lesley Ann Warren)
1:10:35 – Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful? (Reprise) (Stuart Damon, Lesley Ann Warren)
1:12:56 – The Search (Orchestra)
1:18:15 – The Wedding (Orchestra)
1:21:45 – Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful? (Finale) (Ensemble)

The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors

The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors / Королевство кривых зеркал: A girl named Olya never listened to her grandmother, but one day… due to an old and magic mirror, Olya met her own reflection – a girl named Yalo.

Together they found themselves in the kingdom of crooked mirrors where one won’t find ordinary mirrors, because evil and not very honest people want to look better than they really do. They need distorted truth.

Eventually, the girls win over Evil, and when Olya comes back home, she tries to get rid of her bad habits, about which she could learn only through the looking-glass….

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Scarlet Sails

Scarlet Sails is a romantic fantasy and is described as a “fairy tale” though it contains no overtly supernatural elements.This “prince charming” tale about a little girl named Assol who meets a wizard one day.

He tells her that a ship with red sails will arrive — sometime in the future — to take her away to a new happy life with a dashing young prince. She holds onto this prediction in spite of taunts and the ridicule of her neighbors.

Meanwhile the son of a local nobleman grows up to become a sea captain and falls in love with Assol. Sure enough he decides the only way to win her heart is to unfurl red sails and head into port.

But there are other miracles: a smile gladness forgiveness and a word which is needed and said in time…

Scarlet Sails (1961) (English subtitles). from birubir on Veehd.