Frenchie Davis as the Fairy Godmother in a blue gown, raising her wand in Cinderella: Enchanted.

Selected directing · Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Enchanted Edition) · 2010

Cinderella: Enchanted

Production details

Venue
Berkeley Playhouse · Julia Morgan Center for the Arts · November 6–December 5, 2010
Role
Director · Elizabeth McKoy
Work
Music by Richard Rodgers · Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II · Adapted for the stage by Tom Briggs from the teleplay by Robert L. Freedman

Creative premise

Making the story live in the room.

Elizabeth’s production drew inspiration from the 1997 television film’s boundary-breaking multicultural casting, led by Brandy as Cinderella and Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother, and reimagined that expansive vision as her own diverse, multigenerational Bay Area production.

The staging expanded the familiar story through aerial dance, children embodying the story’s animals, and a large visual vocabulary built around movement, theatrical transformation, and the contrast between Cinderella’s constrained home and the freedom of the ball.

Creative team

The artists who shaped the production together.

Direction

Elizabeth McKoy

Choreography

Kimberly Dooley

Music direction

Jerry R. Foust and Amy Dalton

Costume design

Christine Crook

Featured cast

Frenchie Davis

Fairy Godmother

Grammy-nominated performer whose stage credits include Rent on Broadway, the West Coast tour of Dreamgirls, and the 30th-anniversary tour of Ain’t Misbehavin’.

Contact

Let’s make something alive.

Elizabeth welcomes inquiries about professional directing, new-musical development, producing and creative consultation, educational residencies, workshops, speaking, and arts-leadership projects.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area · Available for projects and collaborations

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