Children’s theater from Madison’s “Cinderella” lights the Capitol Theater | Entertainment

From ridiculous fine-sisters to the transformations of high-level costumes, the children’s “Cinderella” theater of Madison is an absolute bullet. The production of CTM, shaped after the television adaptation in 1997 of the musical of Rodgers & Hammerstein, takes place until February 23 at Capitol Theater.

Directed by Brian Cowing with Music Direction of Mark Wurzelbacher, this story is a classic.

Cinderella (Nyla Sabrine Eltahir) rubs the floors while her mother-in-law and her sisters-in-law are preparing to go out in a royal ball, where Prince Christopher (Jack Porubsky) can find a bride. With the help of her fairy godmother (Tierney Rae Chamberlain), Cinderella receives a new dress and a chance to impress before the chronometer strikes at midnight.

In a white dress decorated with gold and a dazzling crown, Chamberlain slips gracefully into the shoes of the fairy godmother with confidence and musical talent. As Cinderella, the bright smile of Eltahir and the behavior in the eyes of doe like the soft but fervent dreamer illuminates the scene, especially in his solo performance of “in my little corner”, about his fantastic exotic life in outside the servant.

The sweetest number (word game) may be the “The Sweetst Sounds” of the Prince and Cinderella, a song on the meeting of their true love. Sung on the opposite sides of the scene, lit in blue, the chemistry between the characters is palpable. (Greg Hofmann designed the lights.)

The biggest moment of the night is the transformation before Cinderella’s ball and his animal friends. During “Impossible / It is possible”, smoke includes both sides of the scene. Previously, the Marian animals – four mice, a bird and a white cat – fall backwards, replaced by fringent footbers in incredibly white coats and four additional actors, also dressed in white and chic horse head hats.

Then Chamberlain agitates his hands on a large pumpkin mounted on a garden wall. Suddenly, the gourd rises and begins to spin. In the smoke cover, the levitation pumpkin disappears and a glossy silver cart emerges.

And then there is the dress. During most of the first act, Eltahir sports a torn and stained skirt, grouped at the waist, with a black corset on his chest and a tatters around his head. With a traction on a hidden string, the little of the dress rejects and folds up on itself.

While Eltahir turns, the old Cinderella dress disappears entirely, replaced by a blue -shaped blue ball dress with a tiara. While Cinderella and the Prince dance in the star of starry ball, there is nothing other than a clean white petticoat. And who knows when his black shoes have become glass slippers! It is a magic tip that could tarnon Houdini, and for which the costume designer Aly Renee Amidei should be attributed.

The comic performances of Kayla Munster and Pippa Schroeder are also to be noted that the Beaux-Sœurs, Katrina Brunner as an unpleasant mother-in-law, and Samuel Alvarez, like the Lionel Royal Valet Lionel Loyal but exasperated.

I would also pay to see a room entirely dedicated to the Queen of Kiah Calmese Walker Constantina. The representation of Walker of a crazy mother on a mission to marry her son is a royal hoe – the eyes of the size of the saucers while she engages in a pink scooping similar to a panther. It is the icing at the top of a magical production.

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