Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAIR LADY. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in G. B. Shaw's classic Cinderella story, set to music by Lerner and Loewe and newly dressed up for the occasion in Cecil Beaton's eye-popping finery...
...Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception of a Roman Villa," where homosexuality and Mussolini are jointly braised...
...Miss deBeers, who didn't make it in high school, it was a real Cinderella story. "My only asset is that I have the loudest voice of any person I know," she announced...
...Fair Lady is indestructible showmanship. The Lerner and Loewe Cinderella tale based on Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion sets Shavian sparkle to music with such unerring good taste that it could probably be performed in Urdu by a cast of untouchables without suffering serious damage. Hollywood, praise be, can do a whole lot better than that. In this literal, beautiful, bountiful version of the most gilt-edged attraction in theater history, Jack Warner has miraculously managed to turn gold into gold. Last week, sporting all her familiar tunes along with a fall collection of eye-popping new finery, Fair Lady...
...Kirov, launching a three-month tour of U.S. and Canadian cities, also offers a gay version of Cinderella, which is tricked out with international dances by the simple device of making the prince search for his ashy love all over the world. The Kirov versions of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty are impeccable, if cold. All the principal dancers are technically irreproachable. If they lack the idiosyncrasies that make great stars out of merely superb dancers, at least there is the consoling virtue that it does not matter much, except to close students of the dance, which ballerina...