Cinderella, who works for her as a mistreated household servant, is black. Does This Remind You of Anything?: The stepmother, who is rich and domineering, is white.After the ball, Christopher reprises "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" after finding Cinderella's missing glass slipper, and she joins in from the path back to her stepmother's house.After they meet, they reprise it before returning to their respective homes. Before Cinderella and Prince Christopher meet, they sing "The Sweetest Sounds" from two different parts of the marketplace.King Maximillian: Well, I'd be younger, wouldn't I? King Maximillian: Why, if I were a young man I'd. The queen is still the one most eager to see their son married and the driving force behind the ball, though. Adaptational Personality Change: The king's and queen's personalities from the 1957 version have been swapped here: now the queen is the bumbling parent, while the king is the more level-headed of the two.Adaptational Early Appearance: The Fairy Godmother previously didn't appear until the night of the ball, but here she materializes before the main titles, crooning some of "Impossible" to the viewers.Adaptational Context Change: "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" originally followed the First Kiss between Cinderella and Prince Christopher, but this version turns it into buildup to the kiss.Adaptational Backstory Change: The stepmother gets a new song, "Falling in Love With Love", implying she was once deeply in love with her first husband and/or Cinderella's father, but his passing left her heartbroken and bitter and determined to never follow her heart again.Adaptational Attractiveness: Beauty Equals Goodness is averted since the villain is played by Bernadette Peters.But the Fairy Godmother's spell only lasts until midnight, and so Cinderella flees the scene, leaving only a single glass slipper. Having previously run into Cinderella at the marketplace, Christopher feels that the beauteous young woman he is drawn to is familiar and wants to get to know her. With the help of her fairy godmother, the put-upon Cinderella defies her cruel stepmother ( Bernadette Peters) to attend a ball, where Prince Christopher ( Paolo Montalban) is seeking a bride at the behest of his parents ( Victor Garber and Whoopi Goldberg). The film roughly follows the plot of the fairy tale and the musical. This version had a slightly more modern feel to it, and featured a multiracial, colorblind cast, along with an added character named Lionel and three other Richard Rodgers songs added to the score. It starred Brandy as the title character, along with Whitney Houston as both an executive producer and the fairy godmother. The Wonderful World of Disney's 1997 film adaptation of Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein), which was in turn an adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name.
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