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Cinderella is the featured character in a folktale which dates as far back as the 1630s. Over the centuries, the best known versions have been written and developed by the likes of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney.

Portrayals

• In Hey Cinderella!, Belinda Montgomery plays the perpetually persecuted house-cleaner from the fairy tale that bears her name. She loves Arthur, the king's gardener, without knowing he's actually Prince Arthur Charming. She has a dog, Rufus, who helps her with the dishes and snarls at her Stepmother.

• On Sesame Street, Cinderella is usually portrayed by a Lavender Anything Muppet performed by Jerry Nelson, and at least once by Pam Arciero. Her stories have been chronicled in a number of Sesame Street News Flash segments.

• Numberella, a Sesame Street parody of Cinderella, was a storybook Gordon read to the kids, which was also acted out by several Anything Muppets. Numberella (performed by Fran Brill) does not have a number to wear to the Prince's party, as numbers 1 through 20 have already been taken. The Count shows up as Numberella's Fairy Countfather and gives her the number 21, which amazes everybody at the party, particularly the Prince. (YouTube)

References

• A pilot for a proposed series was created for the Cinderella story, but never came to full fruition in that form.

• In 1980, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy hosted an episode of Great Performances in which they watched the San Francisco Ballet's production of Prokofiev's Cinderella.

• Baby Piggy imagines herself as Cinderella in the third season Muppet Babies episode, "Pigerella."

• CinderElmo is a rare telling of the story with a male in the lead role, played by Elmo.