It sounds like a wet dream of musical theatre, doesn’t it? A Cinderella by Rodgers & Hammerstein in a visually lavish re-make dating from 2013 when it won all manner of Tony awards for all its fol de rol and fiddle-de-dee which has been brought to Melbourne belatedly by the John Frost organisation after a dismaying Covid delay with a lavishness which is not quite stupendous but with stacks of colour and movement and transformational dresses that are almost enough to distract you from the fact that this is an upper-level straw-hat production, a tour version of the original abracadabra...
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