In considering NBC’s criteria, R&H settled on the fairy tale of Cinderella. It was simply a question of finding something exciting to do and then finding a way to do it."
#CINDERELLA 1997 TV#
"Some people said we stayed out of TV so long because we didn't like the medium," Hammerstein told TV Guide. The team was intrigued the fact that this would be their first foray into television only whetted their appetite for challenge. Tour of Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist Take a Look at Rehearsal Photos for the U.K.
Now NBC wanted to know if Rodgers and Hammerstein would do something that had never been done before: write an original musical, a family musical, expressly for television. Richard Rodgers had given NBC a success a few years earlier with his Emmy Award-winning score for the World War II documentary series, Victory at Sea. In 1955, NBC broadcast the Broadway musical version of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin it was a sensation-and quickly rebroadcast-and the network wanted more. Throughout the 1950s, vintage Broadway titles, including Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, and two early Rodgers and Hart shows ( Dearest Enemy and A Connecticut Yankee showed up on the small screen. In retrospect, it was only a matter of time before the precocious art of television would look to Broadway plays and musicals to help feed its voracious appetite for wholesome yet sophisticated entertainment. Broadcast night was opening night, and everyone in America was invited to attend. In an era when Broadway still commanded attention, this was a Broadway-caliber musical by Broadway’s most successful duo, starring Broadway’s brightest new talent. It was an Event, a golden moment in the Golden Age of television. The broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella starring Julie Andrews on CBS-TV, March 31, 1957, was seen by the largest audience in the history of the planet at the time: 107 million people in the USA, representing 60 percent of the country’s population at that time, and another 10 million or so stretching from Canada to Cuba. This is one eternal film that I hope my niece let's my new grandnephew check out and his sister or brother to be.By today’s standards, it is almost impossible to conceive. She's unforgettable in this role although she's better known as Hilda Crocker, Spring Byington's Ethel Mertz on December Bride. Bibidi Bobidi Boo is sung by Verna Felton who voices the Fairy Godmother. Ilene Woods voices and sings A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes which Perry Como made a big hit record of. Naturally the evil stepmother who is voiced by Eleanor Audley has the cat as her favorite. The pecking order is dog, cat, mice with a horse thrown in for good measure. As a subplot to the main story we have the story of Cinderella and her relationship with the animals around the house. The story is intact and kept in the mythical medieval times it was written for. I don't think there's anyone who is literate in the western world who does not know the story of Cinderella. I saw this for the first time as a small child on Walt Disney's Disneyland hour and it was as effective on the big screen as well as the small. Not the best of Walt Disney's feature length animated films, but any film that has Bibidi Bobbidi Boo and A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes has to rate as good in anyone's standards.
0 kommentar(er)
