Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sandy's own business manager has had to raise half the backing, most of it her money. The director, stage manager and co-star are all colleagues from former productions, and Sandy is more in charge (though less egocentric) than in any production since her third-grade Cinderella...
Hallelujah, Baby! Broadway frequently believes that it is more blessed to borrow than to beget, which is why so many musicals seem like retrospective shows of previous shows. Hallelujah, Baby! takes the standard saga of a showbiz Cinderella who wants a Shubert Alley marquee for her tiara and combines it with an up-from-wage-slavery plot dating from the social-protest '30s. The only novelty is that the protagonists are Negroes. While it affects to be a six-decade panorama of Negro advancement, the show is more like a petrified forest of liberal and sentimental clich...
When the curtain rises, the time is 1900, and Cinderella-here named Georgina-is in "the white folks' kitchen," mopping. Her mama, a five-by-five fortress of a woman (Lillian Hayman), argues that a mop is a Negro girl's best friend. But Georgina (Uggams) begs her prince charming, a Pullman porter named Clem (Robert Hooks), to take her away from all this. Together, they take the overground railway North...
Wednesday, January 18 CBS SPECIAL: CINDERELLA (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.).* - Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical version of the glass-slipper classic written in 1957 specially for TV and starring Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm and Lesley Ann Warren. Repeat...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden in Sabrina (1954), the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who becomes the toast of Long Island society...