Word: cinderella
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wong kept her on the treadmill, keeping up with the churn-out-the-crap-fast mentality of the local industry. Hong Kong chews up and spits out its starlets at stock-market speed knowing that in 10 minutes they could all be dinosaurs. "At the beginning everyone wanted this Cinderella fairy tale to come true," says director Yonfan. "But she became damaged by the system...
...FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html TALL TALES Read the original story of Hamlet - it's weird! - and find a Japanese Cinderella from this exhaustive compendium of legends and myths...
...plot of Into the Woods weaves together well-known fairy tales—including those of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk—with an original plot involving the attempts of a Baker and his Wife to beget a child. The brilliance of the show is its ability to use the fairy tales as a starting point and dig deeper, questioning the value and durability of happiness won too easily. As the lyrics of the finale attest, “Wishes come true, not free...
...Berwick ’01, lack chemistry and play so clueless and foppish that the obvious comedy of their duets, “Agony,” is undercut and their overall characterizations suffer. When Berwick, though, shares the stage with the Baker’s Wife or Cinderella he is on the exact right pitch. Karoun A. Demirjian ’03 is clear-voiced as Cinderella, but bland. Though she sounds especially lovely in “No One is Alone,” no sense of the character’s modern or independent spirit comes across...
...will be happier in the arms of a princess.” While it would be nice if there seemed to be a sense of importance in that scene, how hard would it have been to actually put the infant in the hands of Cinderella? Forget actually having the princess develop a relationship with the child by rocking him back or forth or protecting him somewhat. It just would have been nice to at least have the Baker’s line make sense...