These are excerpts from the script of Cinderella as performed live on March 31, 1957
Cinderella and Fairy Godmother Scene
Song: In my own little corner II (JA)
Cinderella (JA): Oh I wish! I wish!
Fairy G (EA): Ha, ha, ha, ha! Folderol and fiddly dee, fiddly faddly foddle. All the wishes in all the world are poppycock and twoddle!
Cinderella (JA): Oh Godmother I am glad to see you!
Fairy G (EA): I thought you might be lonely ....and I knew what you would be doing.
Cinderella (JA): What?
Fairy G (EA) (sings): I just knew I would find you in that same little chair, in the pale pink mist of a foolish dream.
Cinderella (JA): Well, what's wrong with that?
Fairy G (EA): Ha, ha, ha, ha! Folderol and fiddly dee, fiddly faddly fooddle. All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle! (sings "Impossible")
Cinderella (JA): Impossible things are happening everyday...is that true Godmother?
Fairy G (EA): Well, yes I suppose so,... in a way
Cinderella (JA): Then I continue to build up my impossible hope for tonight and I officially wish-
Fairy G (EA): Officially wish?
Cinderella (JA): I officially wish and wish and wish all those things I said about the pumpkin and the mice and the rats!
Fairy G (EA): Impossible!
Cinderella (JA): Just the same I'm wishing it!
Fairy G (EA): (Sings "Impossible")
Fairy G (EA): Look!
Cinderella (JA): Oh Godmother! Oh .. Godmother, what a beautiful dress!
Fairy G (EA): This old thing! It's 832 years old!
Cinderella (JA): Oh.. but where are you going?
Fairy G (EA): Why, I'm going to take you to the ball.
Cinderella (JA): Oh...Oh ..but I've nothing to wear.
Fairy G (EA): Who says you haven't? Look at yourself!
Cinderella (JA): Oh how beautiful!
Fairy G (EA): C'mon now. The ball will be over before we get there!
(They sing "It's Possible")
Cinderella and, Stepmother and Stepsisters Scene
Song: When you're driving through the moonlight.....(JA, IC, KB and AG)
Cinderella (JA): When he waltzes he whirls you around so that your feet never touch the floor...
Stepsister Joy (AG): That's right they don't....
Cinderella (JA): And he makes you feel that you weigh nothing at all....
Stepsister Joy (AG): That's right he does ...
Cinderella (JA): He leads you around the crowded ballroom and out onto the terrace...
Stepsister Joy (AG): That's right...
Stepsister Portia (KB): He does? Did he lead you out onto the terrace?
Stepsister Joy (AG): I guess he did. I was so faint with joy I didn't know what was happening to me.
Stepsister Portia (KB): Me too.
Cinderella (JA): Out on the terrace, you stop dancing...
Stepsister Joy (AG): Yes...
Cinderella (JA): You walk....
Stepsister Joy (AG): Yes...
Cinderella (JA): You stop walking....
Stepsister Joy (AG): Yes..
Cinderella (JA): You talk and then....
Stepsister Joy (AG): You stop talking?
Cinderella (JA): That's right!
Stepsister Joy (AG): Then?
Cinderella (JA): You start.. thinking!
Stepsister Joy (AG): Oh! (disappointed)
Stepsister Portia (KB): Start thinking what?
Cinderella (JA): Oh, how wonderful it all is!
Stepmother (IC): How wonderful what all is?
Cinderella (JA): Everything!
(They sing " A lovely night")
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