Cinderella Comes to Life on Stage with Music, Laughter, Romance and Magic!
The Wisteria Theater Company, one of the newest women-owned theaters in LA County in North Hollywood, California, has been putting on various plays and musicals for a while now. This early summer was spent with Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella! A magical fairy tale that comes to life on stage, where you step into a world of pure enchantment, fantasy, with this beloved Broadway classic, that has been re-imagined in a more intimate setting, in such a small theater, with immersive set pieces, affects, music, dancing, the works! You go on a journey with Cinderella as she dreams and dares for a better tomorrow, wanting more for a kinder kingdom, where anything can be possible and does become just that possible!
The theater offers general admission tickets ranging from $21 for kids to adults being $37, with exclusive VIP options as well, one being $181 for box seats, and $140 for the front row! Having grabbed the “throne row” front row option of choice, our seats for my partner and I were right in the front row, front and center. Perfect view of the stage, performers, sound, affects all of it was a breath of fresh air. During the performance lighting affects were used, with various props, sounds, music, it made everything run so well. The actors in the cast interacted with some of the audience, while they strolled, ran, and briskly walked up and down the aisles.
The acts were divided up into act one and act two, with an intermission of roughly 15 minutes, with a total of 30 thirty songs throughout the two hour and thirty minute set. All of the songs were entertaining, fun, catchy, and made the musical and story telling so much more entertaining. All of he cast and it’s actors did splendid jobs, playing off one another, getting tons of laughs from the audience, during the second half of the performance, where Cinderella looses her glass slipper, and the Prince has to find her, he and his noblemen go into the audience and try on the slipper with various guests, myself included, with the duo commenting on my attire and crown upon my head too!
It was such a magical experience, and a fabulous performance done well by all, cast, crew, everyone, this take on the fairy tale classic was done so right. Cinderella’s story is told in a unique fashion, that captures the humor, fun, and magic of what fantasy and how dreams and love can be true for all.
