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Family Theater: "The Brothers Grimm & A Showgirl" & "Cinderella Italiano"

Despite the implication in the name, The Brothers Grimm & A Showgirl is a family theater production and has a short run starting TONIGHT. Pantochino Productions Inc ("ridiculously entertaining") is an award winning professional non-profit family theater productions company specializing in family friendly musical theater with a large dollop of fun.

From the New Haven Register:
The show features spoofs and goofs of favorite fairy tales such as Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty. In the play, the Brothers Grimm arrive to perform their stories and are taken by surprise when a sequined and feathered Showgirl appears and helps tell the tales in her own special way.

More information can be found on the Facebook page HERE and at the Pantochino theater company website HERE. You can see some photos via BroadwayWorld HERE.

The company is also staging an intriguing production titled Cinderella Italiano. Cinderella Italiano begins on April 24th, 2015.
                   

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Save Daylight: Reward Offered

Goldilocks by Scott Gustafson
Due to it being one of my most detested times of year (the start of daylight savings and back-to-work-after-even-less-sleep-than-usual-day), I thought to cheer myself up, I should hold a contest.
Soyou go:
Save daylight during Daylight Savings Time! 
The rules are simple: 

Beginning with the first day of Daylight Savings Time, those entering the contest must begin saving daylight. Those who save the most daylight by midnight of the last day of Daylight Savings Time will be awarded a prize. 

Only pure daylight is allowed. No pre-dawn light or twilight will be accepted. Daylight on cloudy days is allowable. Moonlight is strictly prohibited and any of it mixed with daylight will bring immediate disqualification. 

Contestants are instructed to save their accumulated daylight in any container they wish, then bring the container to the Once Upon A Blog office at the end of DST — or when they think they have saved enough daylight to win. 

All entries will be donated to less fortunate nations that do not observe Daylight Savings Time.
*Original contest held via the ElDorado Journal. I do not take credit for this genius.

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"Disenchanted" Goes Off-Broadway

A brief announcement from Broadway.com:
Who needs princes or glass slippers anyway? After a successful limited engagement off-Broadway over the holidays, fairy tale musical lampoon Disenchanted! will return to New York for an open-ended run. The comedy will begin performances on March 16 at Westside Theatre Upstairs. The cast and opening night will be announced shortly. 
Featuring a book, music and lyrics by Dennis T. Giacino and directed by Fiely A. Matias, the tuner features your typical “princess posse” in a show that’s anything-but-typical. Snow White, Cinderella, Belle and more toss off the tiaras and get real in a not-for-kids musical where fairy tales will never be the same.  
And here's a couple of excerpts from a comprehensive overview to give you an idea of what this is about, in case you haven't heard of it before:
In the Disney movie, Pocahontas is hot. She has flowing, silky hair that reaches her waist, which is as big around as her forearm. She has large breasts and wears a short, tight dress. When she meets John Smith she falls instantly in love. In real life Pocahontas was a hero. She bravely saved people's lives and died very young. She was not especially attractive. When she met John Smith, she was 10 years old. 
In a song in the middle of "Disenchanted," Pocahontas sings about that disparity. Why, she asks, was such a life story not good enough? Why did Disney have to turn the valiant child into a curvaceous adult? 
It's on of the most substantial and poignant moments in "Disenchanted," with a beautiful performance by Lulu Picart as the "real" Pocahontas. The rest of "Disenchanted" is a lot sillier than that song, but the entire show is smart, very funny and even subversive. 
...The idea behind the show is that a bunch of iconic female characters from fairy tales, folklore and history are unhappy with the way they're been portrayed in pop culture. They're tired of being depicted as helpless Barbies in distress who are just waiting for their prince to come.

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2014/02/16/4993751/review-disenchanted-is-huge-fun.html#storylink=cpy
You can read the rest of the review, along with more pros as well as it's cons as a show still in the making, HERE. 

This is scheduled for an "open-ended run" off-Broadway, which says a lot about how successful it was. I'm curious to see how big a press covering it will get in 2016 when it is scheduled to start touring nationally. International shows are currently in development too so that will be interesting to keep tabs on as well.

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The Witch Wears Prada (Late Sunday Funny)




Nailed it.
I don't know if this is Prada. I'm sure someone would have pointed it out if it were. So much for the "no witch" policy - this almost counts as number two... (and she's brilliant as both).
*In case you're not familiar with either reference, the lines are from Into The Woods, the footage from The Devil Wears Prada, in which Emily Blunt played the harried first assistant to a powerful (and scary) fashion magazine mogul, played by Meryl Streep. It fits so well it's both hilarious and eerie.

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Parody of Sofia Coppola's "The Little Mermaid" is Pretty Much Perfect

Yes, it's not even filmed yet, but that's kind of the point.
It’s got all of the Coppola quirks: the indie soundtrack, the drunken karaoke, and of course, the Chateau Marmont. Actually, that’s “Shellteau” Marmont. See you if you can spot the rest. (Source)
It should be noted, this is not meant to disparage Ms. Coppola's work in any way. She's brilliant and amazing. She also has a definable style and that's what is fun to play around with when "predicting" how this live action version of The Little Mermaid could go.  If anything, it's a loving homage disguised as a spoof by Funny or Die.

Personally, I think she's going to have more fun with the fantastic aspects and hit the history more, especially because she's not remaking the Disney film (like they are here) but going back to Andersen's version, but this approach would be fun to see as well.

Admit it, you'd watch this too.
(AnnaSophia Robb is the actress playing the part of Ariel.)

By the way, if you like the main song (Kara Leslie, The Strokes cover of "I'll Try Anything Once"), you can hear and download the extended version of it HERE. 

I'd kind of love it, if this song was ultimately included in the Coppola soundtrack for the movie.

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You Know You're a Fairy Tale Blogger When...

Graphic by Gypsy using Dore's illustrations & Debbie's vintage dust jacket project from Confessions of a Plate Addict
(text is the opening lines of Le Chat Botté)

I got tagged by Kristin from Tales of Faerie, so now it's my turn:

Gypsy's list:

- You feel it's your job to watch ALL THE FAIRY TALE SHOWS every week (and movies too)
- You get annoyed that googling "fairy tale" leads to sports stories at least half the time
- You feel over saturated by Disney stuff/content and yet you have to read it/check it out just in case...
- Any time you have to buy shoes you get very self conscious that someone will think, that you think, that you're really a princess
- You have always owned, and will always own, a red hoodie
- ... and feel a little bit self conscious/rebellious every time you wear it.
- You find ways to relate every conversation to fairy tales
- You're pretty sure you wouldn't be too surprised if an animal came right out and spoke to you
- You have multiple copies of Grimm's, Andersen's & Perrault's tales but cannot get rid of a single volume
- You have a dream to own the complete AT index one day
- You always have the urge to add a witch when making gingerbread houses
- ... and feel guilty eating gingerbread men.
- Your TBR pile is actually a mountain
- You regularly have 14 tabs (or more) open at once for articles and stories you MUST blog on
- Your drafts folder is full of placeholder topic titles with one-liners/single paragraphs and half-complete essays on fairy tale issues so you won't forget to blog on them... (-sigh-)


Now tagging... HEIDI at SurLaLune!

Fairy tale bloggers' confessions so far (updated as they appear...):
What is this? From Kristin, of Tales of Faerie:After having a fairy tale blog for years, it really starts to bleed into the rest of your life. Gypsy from Once Upon a Blog and I have been enjoying sharing some of these unique results of our bloggerhood and thought some of you might also have some funny and interesting things to share as well!
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