| R+H's Cinderella | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 08:28 pm EDT 10/16/24 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:19 pm EDT 10/16/24 | |
| In reply to: go figure - sc2 07:28 am EDT 10/16/24 | |
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| Two things about Cinderella being considered a revival... I'm not sure when it was first licensed to be produced outside of TV productions, but the original stage version of the TV musical had been performed a TON around the country for at least 2 decades before any version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella was produced on broadway. I was in one in the 90s as a kid, and saw one at my high school in the late 90s. Both productions were the original version, before any big revision was done to the book/score. So it would have easily counted as a revival just because of how much it was performed before 2013. (I don't know how it would have been ruled on if there had never been a licensed stage version of it before this 2013 Broadway revisal... 3 different full TV movie productions of it certainly seem enough for it to be in the culture, even if never on stage, but who knows). Then a big revision was done, and what they titled "R+H's Cinderella" was produced on Broadway with a substantially rewritten book by Douglas Carter Beane. (including that the protagonist is now called "Ella", as so many revisions and updates and new takes on Cinderella have done). While the score for "R+H's Cinderella" has the songs they wrote for their Cinderella musical, it also includes stuff added for the Brandy/Whitney TV movie ("Lovely Night"), and added other R&H songs not written for it (I think there are 6 songs in it that aren't in the original version, 5 of them added for this version). So I wonder if the producers or the R&H estate were hoping or petitioning the Tonys to rule it a "new musical", based on so much of the score being different (for this show) and so much of the book being newly written and conceived for that version/broadway production. It wouldn't have been eligible for Best Score either way, and Carter's new book was deemed eligible and nominated for Best Book even with the show being a revival. (It wasn't a great year, but it wouldn't have had a chance to beat Matilda and Kinky Boots even if it got rave reviews, which I don't remember it getting.) But it should maybe be called "R+H & B's Cinderella", because the book and the adding of the songs are certainly not attributable to R+H's writing of Cinderella or knowledge/approval of what it would become at this stage. |
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