4/4: Brandy Cinderella Drag Parody (Rogers and Hammerstein)

For optimum HD viewing, please change from 240p to 720p (above) and wait for buffer!! Or watch at 240p for the special "YouTubePixelated" edition! For continuous play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7MhV9t2PO8&feature=PlayList&p=C328B27...

Musical in 4 Parts:
1. Opening/Falling in Love with Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7MhV9t2PO8
2. My Own Little Corner/Godmother Arrives/Impossible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzsoZCbI6ZU
3. Ball/Not a Day Goes By/Do I Love You Because You're Feminine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFlzi02V5Fs
4. Finale/Trying on the Shoe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA_NeKRbV0k


"Extraordinary!!! An hysterically psycho-camp, gender-twisting cyberdelic opera. Shades of Ludlam, Warhol, of Rocky Horror Picture Show, and perhaps a drop of John Waters, all twisted-perverse in a sumptuous visual palette and an only-today's-generation grasp of the creative possibilities of youtube. The parodistic lyrics are a laugh-out-loud joy, and the martian-processed voices a musical comedy unto themselves. The young cast find fun and nuance in the mockingly-graceful, especially the faux glow of the sultry Cinderella and the charmingly deadpan Prince. If that weren't enough, Felix Bernstein whose vision the whole thing is - who likely wrote/directed/designed/edited every tiny detail of the tightly-paced work - also plays the Step Mother. His onscreen presence "eats the scenery," his audacious tranny-protagonist part Marie Antoinette, part Hermione Gingold. Moreover, the work shows unfathomable precocity - its auteur a mere 17 years old! Tell everyone you know to watch this thing. It's a total treat!!!"
-Kirk Nurock

"Quite amazing, John Waters and George Kuchar move over, Notes on Camp filtered through feminist theory + pop culture potpourri + critique of capatalism (and he's just starting college next month!). Felix is a fascinating performing: see for example "Impossible" towards the end of part 2."-Mira Schor

In my senior year of high-school, inspired by the Kuchar brothers and K. Gordon Murray, a bunch of my friends got together with me at my grandmother's house to re-open the space of kiddy-dress-up games, remake the Wonderful World of Dizzy's multiculturalized/campified Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella or as it's known among us kids: Brandy Cinderella, and revisit the traumas of our youth: our indoctrination into rigid archetypes, demeaning stereotypes, and happy Hollywood storylines: opening up the phony, corny, bathos of the high-school musical to idiosyncratic vision, perversity, satire, and critique...and we did it all in glorious, fabulous, rainbow color, and very HIGH definition!! enjoy!-FLB


STARRING
Max Marcellus as the Narrator,
Felix Bernstein as the
Stepmother/ Godmother,
Sonia Feigelson as Pretty Cinderella,
Cassie Seltman as Poor Cinderella,
Noah Christenson as the Prince,
Rachel Atlas as the Steward,
Qvanna Gardere and Mabel Greenberg as the Wicked Stepsisters

Cinematography By: Patrick Urbankowski
Written and Directed By: Felix Bernstein
Boom Microphone Operator: Marla Bazan
Camera: Noah Friedman
Costumes and Make-Up: Mabel Nash Greenberg and Sherry Baroness von Korber-Bernstein

Special Thanks To: Shelley Hirsch, Henry Hills, George Kuchar, and, Elisha Miranda

©Felix Bernstein 2010

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Comedy

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