Everything is beautifully prepared and laid out.
It is the mysterious woman again who stands outside with a mongrel dog.Ĭinderella’s step-mother can hardly believe her eyes when she next sees the kitchen table. In her kitchen prison, Cinderella is working her weary way through the never-ending chores when there’s a tap at the door. Such a “bride contest” horrifies the Prince, but his weedy cousin Montague is overjoyed. The Lord Chamberlain, still pursuing constitutional solution to a princely problem, proposes a Great Ball at the castle to which every eligible princess in Europe shall be invited. John confesses that he and Lady Caroline, lady-in-waiting to the Dowager Queen, are in love, but Court protocol, as ever, bars their way. To the Prince’s delight, the woman wishes him Love before resuming her journey. Meanwhile on their ride back to the castle, John and the Prince encounter a strange looking woman who has lost her way. The Prince glimpses Cinderella fleeing into the distance. Cinderella’s step-mother punishes her by giving her a mountain of vegetables to peel. He insists that he will only marry for love… If that can ever be. During a stolen visit to her parents’ graveside, Cinderella is disturbed by the Prince and John returning from a hunting trip. His doting parent, the King and Queen of Euphrania and their pompous Lord Chamberlain are hoping for a marriage of alliance between their only son and the Princess Selena of the neighbouring kingdom of Carolsfeld.Īfter an expedition to Carolsfeld with his young companion John, the Prince announces to a stricken Court that he has no intention of taking a wife who is bald and toothless. Cinderella must resign herself to a life of loneliness and humiliation – a servant in her own home – or go to an orphanage. In Euphrania, a tiny kingdom somewhere in Central Europe, live two unhappy people – a sad young girl and a proud young prince – trapped in their two very different worlds…įollowing the death of her father, poor Cinderella has been left in the care of her unfriendly step-mother who has two spoiled and simpering daughters of her own, Isobella and Palatine. Music by the Sherman Brothers, the composers of 'Mary Poppins' and 'Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang'
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