Cinderella is just about ready for an audience!
Random fact: Did you know that the introduction of the glass slipper into the Cinderella story actually happened as a result of a mistranslation? In a French telling of the story, written in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Cinderella wore fur boots. But when the story was translated to English the French word for fur (vair) was mistaken for glass (verre). Without this mistake, Cinderella wouldn't be what we know it to be today!
The Cinderella story is very interesting to research with the earliest telling dating all the way back to the 1st Century BC with the Greek legend of Rhodopis. Rhodopis was married to the King after an eagle took her slipper while she was bathing and flung it into his lap.
My personal favorite version of the Cinderella story is Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. He tells the story from the perspective of Cinderella's (or Clara's) stepsister Iris and completely reshapes the way you view the story and its characters. It's a must read for any fan of Cinderella!
So that's my Cinderella tangent! The photo today is of one of our own ugly stepsisters Ms. Ashley Campbell who I promise is actually incredibly beautiful! Although the makeup, hair, and costumes in this show really don't flatter her too much.
And one last thing before I end tonight's blog, I wanted to share the lyrics to a song I have just finished. If you didn't know that I write music, now you do! I'm still hammering out the melody and everything although it's just about set. I may record it and post the actual song on here soon. This was a two day project and it was really nice to get behind a piano again. As it's put in the Broadway musical Next to Normal "And you play, and you play, and you play. And everything else goes away. Everything else goes away." That's a very true statement and it's very refreshing to find that place every now and then.
So here they are:
No Glass Slipper
Like the Prince in Cinderella
Who was left a lonely fellow
When the clock striked twelve
And the pretty girl had to run,
I'm sitting here alone
And wishing you would come back home
We had one single day
And then it slipped away.
Now you're gone again and I just don't know what to do.
Unlike the Prince I don't even have that godforsaken shoe.
No glass slipper to hold onto, to bring hope of your return.
So in the dark I'll be wishing that someday I will learn.
We talked about collisions
We talked about division
We talked and we knew
This wasn't made to last.
But I still had to try.
I didn't want to say goodbye.
Even though I knew
I couldn't hold onto you.
Now you're gone again and I just don't know what to do.
Unlike the Prince I don't even have that godforsaken shoe.
No glass slipper to hold onto, to bring hope of your return.
So in the dark I'll be wishing that someday I will learn.
I'll learn how to let go.
I'll learn not to try so hard.
I'll learn to wish for real things.
I'll learn to play fair cards.
I'll learn to free myself
From the chains that hold me down.
So I won't waste another minute
Wishing someone else was still around.
Because now you're gone again and I just don't know what to do.
And unlike that Prince I don't even have that godforsaken shoe.
No glass slipper to hold onto, to bring hope of your return.
So in the dark I'll be wishing that someday I will learn.
No glass slipper to hold onto, to bring hope of your return.
So in the dark I'll be wishing that someday I will learn.
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