Product: The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 3.0
Good story, songs lack
I heard a few of the songs from this show on "Cinderella: Songs from the Classic Fairy Tale", and I immediately wanted to see it. The story is good--much more fleshed out than the Rodgers and Hammerstein version, and the acting was good, too, especially the Fairy Godmother. However, with the exception of the Prince, the singing was not quite what I would have liked to hear in a musical production. It seemed as though most of the other characters (sometimes even Cinderella)preferred to "talk-sing" a la Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady". I thought that was a shame, because the songs are quite beautiful. Other than that, the costumes and period in which this film is set are delights in themselves.