“It’s possible for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage!”
If you know the lines to that song, than you know one of the sweetest Rodgers & Hammerstein shows that ever was. We are on our Winter break this week and while I was busy in the house cleaning, I flipped on the TV and saw that “Cinderella” was on and I just had to sit down and watch it.
I can still remember the first time I saw this on TV when I was little sitting in front of the set with my footed pj’s on, I was mesmerized. Just as my parent’s were when they would tell me about the first time they saw it and what a really big deal it was, for something like that to come on TV. It still holds as much magic for me now as it did then. There is such an air of nostalgia around it; the colors of the costumes and the set design, it is beautiful.
I adore when they put something so sweet and wholesome on television during the school breaks, something you could sit down and watch with your children while you work on an art project, something that will make them think and not just “talk” to them, that uses intelligent language and no slang. In my own little corner in my own little room, this was the perfect thing on TV to take a break to today. Well, back to work…
the REAL girl says:
oh, I so agree with you!!!! There’s barely a thing to see on television that is family safe! Tonight, we went to the gym and while on the treadmill, I saw three or four shows…as I flipped through the channels, just in the minutes I was browsing, was language I could not believe….
I love the blissful feeling of pure joy! And it sounds like that’s just how you were feeling….
xoxo
February 24, 2012 — 5:35 am