''Cindy'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Johnny Brandon, and a book by Joe Sauter and Mike Sawyer. It ran

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at the Gate, Orpheum, and Cricket Theatres (not simultaneously) in 1964 and 1965. It is an adaptation of the story of

Cinderella "Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...

. It was produced by Chandler Warren and Philip Temple, by arrangement with Stuart Wiener and Jerry Grace.

Productions

''Cindy'' opened at the

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on March 19, 1964, and closed June 21. On September 24, it reopened at the Orpheum Theatre. It transferred to the Cricket Theatre on January 19, 1965, and closed on May 2, 1965.

Cast and characters

Original cast

Cricket cast replacements

*Cindy Kreller: Isabelle Farrell *Lucky: Tommy Karaty, Rick Landon *Papa: David Howard *Mama: Milly Weitz *Della Kreller: Alice Beardsley *Chuck Rosenfeld: Joe Bellomo *Ruth Rosenfeld: Evelyn Bell, Elizabeth Parrish *Storytellers: Charles Abbate, Michael Loman

Musical numbers

;Act I *"Once Upon a Time" – Storytellers *"Let's Pretend" – Cindy and Lucky *"Is There Something to What He Said?" – Cindy *"Papa, Let's Do It Again" – Mama, Papa and Storytellers *"A Genuine Feminine Girl" – Cindy *"Cindy" – Lucky *"Think Mink" – Golda and Della *"A Genuine Feminine Girl" (Reprise) – Cindy *"Tonight's the Night" – Storytellers *"Who Am I?" – Cindy and Chuck ;Act II *"Act II Opening" – Storytellers *"If You've Got It, You've Got It" – Golda, Della, Mama and Papa *"The Life That I Had Planned for Him" – Mrs. Rosenfeld *"If It's Love" – Cindy and Chuck *"Got the World in the Palm of My Hand" – Chuck *"Call Me Lucky" – Lucky *"Got the World in the Palm of My Hand" (Reprise) – Storytellers *"Laugh It Up" – Cindy, Mama, Papa and Boy Storyteller *"Once Upon a Time" (Reprise 1) – Storytellers *"Let's Pretend" (Reprise) – Cindy and Lucky *"Cindy" (Reprise)/"Who Am I?" (Reprise) – Cindy and Lucky *"What a Wedding" – Mama, Papa, Golda, Della, Mr. Rosenfeld, Mrs. Rosenfeld and Chuck *"Once Upon a Time" (Reprise 2) – Storytellers *"Finale" – Company

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210138/http://www.thevillager.com/villager_114/villagarea.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070917135037/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=4147 *https://web.archive.org/web/20070917170759/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&id=4059 1964 musicals Off-Broadway musicals Works based on Cinderella {{musical-theat-stub