La fille mal gardée
In Frederick Ashton's 1948 choreography of "Cinderella", Robert Helpmann and Ashton himself danced the roles of the two stepsisters. Ben Stevenson later continued the practice of casting male dancers as the stepsisters in his own choreography of the ballet. Other female ballet characters traditionally performed by male dancers are Old Madge, the village sorceress in "La Sylphide" and the Widow Simone in "La fille mal gardée".