They throw their bags and jackets into corners and pile them on chairs. They reach for sheet music, and shuffle it.
Voices run up and down the scales.
When this is over I'll sort of come down to earth. It was written for a 1957 television production starring Julie Andrews, and partially rewritten in 1965 for a production starring Leslie Ann Warren as Cinderella and Celeste Holm as the Fairy Godmother. It was revamped again for a 1997 production in which Brandy Norwood played the title role and Whitney Houston was the godmother. Cunningham hadn't planned to take a role in the musical but her husband, John, talked her into it by agreeing to take a role himself. Although he is a veteran musician and performer, John Cunningham said, this is only the second Broadway musical he has done.