Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes
A total departure from the Mariinsky Ballet’s version (and somewhere between
Footloose and
West Side Story) is
Rock n’ Roll Cinderella, the story of a girl who’s just gotta dance. Growing up in the 1950s, this Cinderella’s home is ruled by her uptight, stick-in-the-mud stepfather but her toes just can’t stop tapping to that new crazy beat. When her mousy pals Dean and Martin can’t get her a ticket to the Debutante Ball, all seems lost, until a benevolent do-gooder from the “Make a Wish Come True” Society arrives on the scene. Unlike many children’s theater companies, which cast adult actors, the Family Matinee Company puts the city’s most promising young teen actors to work under the direction of Children’s Playwright-in-Residence Stephanie Temple. Past endeavors, like Goldilocks and the
Three Aliens, Bollywood Sleepy Beauty, and their Western take on
Snow White have inspired gaggles of kiddies hang around after the show for the meet-and-greet.
— Silke Tudor
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