[Capdist-announce] Cinderella Tales

[Steamer No.10 Theatre]

*/_Cinderella Tales_/**//*

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*Dates:*Saturday & Sunday: Jan. 17, 24, 25 at 3:pm

Monday, Jan. 19 at 10 & 1 – Martin Luther King Day

*Tickets:*General Admission: $15 – Advance Purchase Discount - $13

*Location:*Steamer No.10 Theatre, 500 Western Ave. Albany NY

*Info:* (518) 438-5503mailto: info at steamer10theatre.org 
<mailto:mailto:%20info at steamer10theatre.org>

*Web:*http://www.steamer10theatre.org/category/cinderella-tales

*Run Time:* One hour + 10 minute intermission

Cinderella is the heroine of the world’s most popular fairy tale with 
more than 900 versions, every culture has a variation. *_Cinderella 
Tales_* is a compilation of three of those tales: _Egyptian Cinderella_, 
_The Glass Slipper_, and an Irish Cinder-lad tale _Billy Beg & the Bull_.

*_Egyptian Cinderella _*– It originated nearly 3,000 years ago and was 
recorded by the Roman historian Strabo in the first century B.C. — A 
young Greek woman is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Egypt.  
Her manners and background make her stand out, with the result that she 
is treated cruelly by the other servants of the household.  Her only 
friends are the animals that live along the Nile for whom she dances and 
sings each evening.  Her master happens upon this one evening and has 
golden slippers made for her. One day a hawk – the god Horus – steals a 
slipper and drops it into Pharaoh’s lap.  He searches the kingdom to 
find its owner, and when he finds her, makes her his queen.

*_The Glass Slipper_*-- the European version of Cinderella.A young girl, 
with the magical intervention of her fairy god mother, escapes from her 
step family to attend the Prince’s Ball, but only until midnight. As she 
flees the Ball she loses a glass slipper the Prince finds it and uses 
its unique size to find her again

*_Billy Beg and the Bull_* — an Irish tale of a young prince, Billy Beg 
and his pet, a magical bull.  His Step Mother threatens the Bull and 
together they flee the kingdom.  After numerous adventures the Bull is 
killed in a confrontation with another bull.  As he is dying he 
instructs Billy to take his magical tail which Billy later uses to 
subdue an Ogre, which gives him a pair of huge boots.  Later he defeats 
a dragon and saves a Princess, but hearing his step-sister in the crowd, 
flees, leaving the Princess holding one of his boots.  She searches all 
of Ireland to find him, and the boot fits.

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