
Magic glimmers throughout “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” bedazzling the stage through Jan. 9 at the Drury Lane Theatre. With songs like “Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful” and “Impossible,” Richard Rodgers’ score and Oscar Hammerstein’s lyrics are beyond reproach, pure romance in auditory form from sweeping overture to the soaring finale.
Paired with Douglas Carter Beane’s new book — a savvy, funny update on the one Hammerstein wrote for “Cinderella’s” original CBS 1957 television broadcast — that lush and majestic score spins family-friendly, storytelling gold.