Cinderella: more press reviews

The What's On Stage reviewer Michael Coveney gave it 3 stars and liked it overall, noting that "Joseph Millson is a suitably erect Prince Charming"

"I’m not at all sure how this will go down with nice family parties from Islington or the local council estates. On the other hand, Fiona Laird’s production is beautifully designed by Stephen Brimson Lewis – King Neville XVII’s palace in Pantonia, where the Prince’s beloved is chosen by a phone-in vote, is a crystalline cave – and it is undeniably chuckle-worthy for those of a warped and sophisticated frame of mind."

Charles Spencer from The Telegraph thought it too rude but didnt fail to praise Joseph...

"Madeleine Worrall is a sweet-natured Cinders, however, Paul Keating is child-friendly as Buttons, Pauline Collins is a delightful Fairy Godmother and Joseph Millson is a charismatic Prince Charming."

Nicholas de Jongh for the Evening Standard wasnt overly impressed but gave it 3 stars.

"The best and serious novelty in this somewhat old-fashioned Cinderella is the emergence of Paul Keating's lovelorn Buttons as a half-open, gay young man, into dress design and domesticity, who forever teeters on the verge of coming out to Madeleine Worrall's sexually unsophisticated, not very passionate Cinderella. In the panto's best, humorous moments they both sing and dream of a tall, dark stranger. The pair of them pursue parallel romances, when they manage to escape slaving in the basement kitchen where two, white puppet mice threaten to steal the limelight.

Joseph Millson's handsome Prince succumbs to love at first sight when he glimpses Cinderella at a ball to choose the Prince's wife. Meanwhile Oliver Chopping's Dandini, the Prince's aide de camp gazes transfixed at Keating's wistful Buttons and after a little mutual admiration ends up kneeling - quite respectably - asking for his hand, presumably in a civil partnership. "