Cinderella
| Hours: | Hours Vary see below |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Theater & Shows |
A Few Words from the Director
Come see the young actors of The Open Road Theatre perform this wonderful adaptation of Cinderella. You will notice bits and pieces from several different versions of this timeless classic. In our production, we focus on the story’s themes of sibling rivalry, the courage to be yourself with the one you love, and whether fate plays a role in our relationships.
We all look for our ‘Prince’ or our ‘Princess’, the person who is our true love. Many times, appearances can be fooling. We are dazzled by the clothes, the makeup, the classiness/or the popularity of a person, overlooking the true beauty in the unpolished, no makeup, not necessarily the most popular but very genuine human being standing right in front of our faces.
We are easily tempted out of our own personal insecurities, to fashion ourselves into being ‘someone’ we are not, in order to impress another into liking us, into falling in love with us. These fashioned “white lies” snowball by returning to haunt us in truths revealed out loud by other people, jeopardizing the very relationship on which we have set our heart so completely.
One of my favorite scenes in this Cinderella is named ‘Fate’, between Leonardo and Prince Henry; two men discussing how one can know when he has met his true love? The younger asks the elder, “Do you believe there is only one person who is your true love? And, what if, your true love is struck by lighting and dies, is there another true love in our life?”
Appearances can be deceiving. Seemingly arrogant people can turn out to have loving hearts, once they decide to let go of their ‘egos’ and open their hearts to give and receive love. Redemption is always possible, as each person so chooses; but redemption requires the ultimate risk of revealing the truth of who we really are to a true friend or the a true love.
Life mirrors art, as we will see, in this production of Cinderella. Each character makes his or her own choices, where each choice leads to different endings.
History of The Open Road Theatre
This production of Cinderella grew out of the success of the last few years’ productions of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, The Mystery at Gravestead Manor, Robin Hood, A Christmas Carol, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Coyote Challenges the World, William Shakes¬peare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Wil¬lows, as performed by youth from Hamilton and Wenham
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7:00 PM on Friday, January 19th and and Saturday, January 20th,
3:00 PM Matinee on Sunday, January 21
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$14 Adutls & $12 students and senior citizens
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502 Cabot St, Beverly, MA, 01915 map
Phone: 978-468-2039
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