May 29, 30, June 4, 5, 11, 12, 1983
The noted team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote their Cinderella as an original musical for television. The Mountaineers Players' production was among the first in the Pacific Northwest. Direction and choreography were by Luanne Krueger, with Terry Stombaugh as musical director and accompanist.
The Bremerton Sun newspaper's reviewer raved:
"The two stepsisters and their mother spell success. This trio of pushy, vain and quarrelsome women would be sensational on any stage, but they triumph in the outdoors all the way to the last row. Their gestures are bigger than life, their voices are raucous and their costumes are gaudy. These (are) the women you love to hate...."
"Most of the other characters looked pretty pale, partly the fault of Rodgers and Hammerstein. They softened the cardboard fairy tale characters with a little human ambiguity, which rarely projects as well as caricature. Dawn Brazel as Cinderella probably had the toughest assignment; nice cheerful girls just don't catch attention as loudmouthed overdressed ones do."
Total attendance was over 3,400.
