![]() Other times, she appears to save us from doing the horrible chores that await us around the house. Sometimes we pretend that our fairy godmother pops up just in the nick of time to whisk us both off to the beach in our brand new swimming attire. However, these little tales are just between the two of us. We spin yarns about her all the time when it’s just she and I before bedtime or in the car or just any old place, really. My daughter and I share a secret little fantasy about a fairy godmother. I was lucky enough to have a gutsy girl with an amazing voice who blew the roll clean out of the water! I'm afraid she might have actually completely upstaged Cinderella herself! Rather, I went with the more updated version that Whitney Houston played in the same film. I decided that I would not go with the antiquated vision that this person, the fairy godmother, would be like the one in the Disney version of the script. To be honest, one of the most difficult roles to cast was that of Cinderella’s fairy godmother. I once directed Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with a high school cast. When you see so many little girls dressed up in those characters, including fairy godmother outfits, you realize how universal this is. As a young girl, I always secretly wished I had a fairy godmother who would wave her magic wand and show up in my life just at the right time.Įven though you know it is fantasy, it is fun to dream about it and imagine what it would be like if it were real.Īfter visiting Disney World and seeing Cinderella's castle and all the princess characters, I don't think it does any harm in imaging the good of a fairy godmother in someone's life. I can't imagine the story of Cinderella without the fairy godmother character.
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