Editing Cinderella (section)

===Theatre===
[[File:CinderAdelphi.jpg|thumb|right|Pantomime at the Adelphi]]
In 1804, ''Cinderella'' was presented at [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane Theatre]], London, described as "A new Grand Allegorical Pantomimic Spectacle", though it was very far in style and content from the modern pantomime. However, it included notable clown [[Joseph Grimaldi]] playing the part of a servant called Pedro, the antecedent of today's character [[Buttons (pantomime)|Buttons]].<ref name=Clinton>{{cite book |last=Clinton-Baddeley |first=V. C. |date=1963 |title=Some Pantomime Pedigrees |publisher=The Society for Theatrical Research |pages=9–11}}</ref> In 1820 ''Harlequin and Cinderella'' at the [[Royal Opera House|Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]] had much of the modern story (taken from the opera [[La Cenerentola]]) by [[Rossini]], but was a [[Harlequinade]], again featuring Grimaldi.<ref name=Clinton/> In 1830, [[Rophino Lacy]] used Rossini's music, but with spoken dialogue in a [[comic opera]] with many of the main characters: the Baron, the two stepsisters and Pedro the servant all as comic characters, plus a Fairy Queen instead of a magician.<ref name=Clinton/> However, it was the conversion of this via [[burlesque]] and [[rhyming couplet]]s by [[Henry Byron]] that led to what was effectively the modern pantomime in both story and style at the [[Royal Strand Theatre]] in 1860: ''Cinderella! Or the Lover, the Lackey, and the Little Glass Slipper''.<ref name=Clinton/>

In the traditional pantomime version, the opening scene takes place in a forest with a hunt in progress; here, Cinderella first meets Prince Charming and his "right-hand man" [[Dandini (character)|Dandini]], whose name and character come from [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s opera (''[[La Cenerentola]]''). Cinderella mistakes Dandini for the Prince, and the Prince for Dandini. Her father, Baron Hardup, is under the thumb of his two stepdaughters, the [[Ugly sisters]], and has a servant, Cinderella's friend [[Buttons (pantomime)|Buttons]]. Throughout the pantomime, the Baron is continually harassed by the Broker's Men (often named after current politicians) for outstanding rent. The Fairy Godmother must magically create a coach (from a pumpkin), footmen (from mice), a coach driver (from a frog), and a beautiful dress (from rags) for Cinderella to go to the ball. However, she must return by midnight, as it is then that the spell ceases.