Ever After...well, hopefully there's a pre-nup!

 Shots from Shrek (The Musical...not the book by William Steig,

which was tops 15 pages, and most of it illustrations!),

Bryan d'Arcy James and Sutton Foster

and lots of great Jeanine Tesori music

and swell David Lindsay-Abaire lyrics.

I pity Bryan, having to do it all in a green padded costume like that,

but he more than managed.

Below,

three aging Fionas

sing "I Know It's Today"

("the waiting, the WAITING!")

 

 John Tartaglia as Pinocchio

in "Story Of My Life"..."outed by my nose".

 Joseph Bova chatting up Carol Burnett

in 1959's Once Upon A Mattress.

Below, mom and pop...

Jack Gilford and Jane White.

 Carol would play this role on television

in 1964 and 1972...

and she returned one final (maybe?) time in 2005

to play Queen Agravain (below center)

with Dick Smothers as the King (right)

and Tracey Ullman as Princess "Fred".

That's Edward Hibbert on the bottom left,

a great character actor

seen in Drowsy Chaperone and Curtains

(just to name a measley 2).

It was 1957 and Rodgers and Hammerstein were

hot to do a project with Julie Andrews

(who was"flushed with success" from My Fair Lady),

so Cinderella was born!

Live on CBS, and viewed by over 100 million people...

I missed it. I was 2. 

Above, Julie with Fairy Godmother Edie Adams, sans wand;

below, the stepsisters,

Kaye Ballard and Alice Ghostley,

and between them,

Ilka Chase, who played the lovely (not) Stepmother! 

Had to include this 1970s shot

of Julie and hubby Blake Edwards.

Note head band, fringe, and ...are those velour pants?