La Cenerentola: Le due Sorelle

Baron Don Magnifico's daughters were as vain as they were beautiful.  They burst into the grand hall and began to trouble Cenerentola...

Clorinda:

Cenerentola!

This house is a sty, and we're bored.

Tisbe:

Bored, yes, bored!  The horror.

Why don't you entertain us?

Clorinda:

Yes, do, tell us a story!

Cenerentola:

Well, I only know one story -

My mother used to tell it to me.

Clorinda & Tisbe:

Humph!  Well it must be rubbish,

But if we must...

As one, the girls turned their backs on Cenerentola so they could practice flitting their eyelashes and fluttering their fans.  Their disregard brought them more pleasure than any story of hers ever would.

La Cenerentola: La Prima Donna

Angelina:

Una Volta c'era un re,

Che a star solo s'annoiò,

Cerca, cerca ritrovò!

Ma il volean sposare in tre.

Cosa fa?

Sprezza il fasto e la beltà,

E alla fin scelse per sé

L'innocenza e la bontà.

Là là là là,

Li li li li,

Là là là là.

La Cenerentola: Overture

La Cenerentola.

Tangle Caron and Mark Zupan. Adaptation. Puppet/Set Construction. Acoustic Music. Puppeteering.

Puppetry Sweatshop Team.

Tonda Heidtke. face painting. set painting. wardrobe
Lynette Theunisz. hair. wardrobe
Ayla River. erotic literature
Chris Gable. dress rehearsal audience member-at-large
Leela. tiny dog

Special Thanks.

Candice Caron. loving support.

Gioacchino Rossini. dude writes a mean opera.

Overture.

The King is on his deathbed...

And in the fine house of the Baron, Don Magnifico, there live three young women, his daughters: Clorinda, Tisbe and Angelina, the maid.  Angelina is called Cenerentola, the girl of the cinders, for she sweeps ashes from the fire.