Plus, it was the first work I’d seen Jason Alexander in, and it has added that much more joy to watching him in Seinfeld. The songs are so memorable that I catch myself singing “ Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe” when a celebrity couple I like breaks up. It features a Black princess, a Black fairy godmother, a Filipino prince, Whoopi Goldberg! Victor Garber! - but there are less obvious ones too: The stepsisters’ outfits are hilarious. (And while they were released much later in Canada, that’s a gripe we’ll get to another day.)īlack Cinderella holds a special place in my heart for all the obvious reasons. For example, after years of being tweeted at, Netflix added seven highly-demanded 90s Black sitcoms, including Moesha, Girlfriends, and Sister to Sister. Maybe Disney just wanted to profit off some old intellectual property or fulfill a regular demand from Black Twitter in which Black folks ask for cultural touchstones to be made available on streaming platforms pretty much since the advent of many of these platforms. Releasing the movie just ahead of Valentine’s Day feels like a lovely little corporate love letter to all the people who first encountered this Cinderella with Black people as the lead characters. It may have another official title, but the Brandy-starring remake of the classic fairytale has always been Black Cinderella to me. I swear I heard several million Black people scream through my computer monitor when Disney+ announced that it will finally stream Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella starting February 12.
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