Summary of Cinderella in English. Cinderella fairy tale in English

THERE WAS once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she
felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come
near her bed, and said, “Dear child, be good and pious, and God
will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from
heaven, and will be with you.” And then she closed her eyes and
died. The maiden went every day to her mother's grave and wept,
and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow
covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came
in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself
another wife.
The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they
were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were black and
ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter.
“Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?” they said;
“those who eat food must earn it. She is nothing but a kitchenmaid!”
They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old
gray kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear.
“Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!” cry
they laughed, and then they sent her into the kitchen. there she
was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early
in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash.
Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her- mocking
her, and strewing peas and lentils among the ashes, and setting her
to pick them up. In the evenings, when she was quite tired out with
her hard day's work, she had no bed to lie on, but was bound to
rest on the hearth among the cinders. And because she always
looked dusty and dirty, as if she had slept in the cinders, they
named her Cinderella.
It happened one day that the father went to the fair, and he asked
his two stepdaughters what he should bring back for them. Fine
clothes!” said one. “Pearls and jewels!” said the other. “But what
will you have, Cinderella?” he said. “The first twig, father, that
strikes against your hat on the way home; what is what I should like
you to bring me.” So he bought for the two step-daughters fine
clothes, pearls, and jewels, and on his way back, as he rode
through a green lane, a hazel twig struck against his hat; and he
broke it off and carried it home with him. And when he reached
home he gave to the step-daughters what they had wished for, and
to Cinderella he gave the hazel twig. She thanked him and went to
her mother's grave, and planted this twig there, weeping so
bitterly that the tears fell upon it and watered it, and it flourished
and became a fine tree. Cinderella went to see it three times a day,
and wept and prayed, and each time a white bird rose up from the
tree, and if she uttered any wish the bird brought her whatever she
had wished for.
Now it came to pass that the King ordained a festival that should
last for three days, and to which all the beautiful young women of
that country were bidden, so that the King's son might choose a
bride from among them. When the two stepdaughters heard that
they were too bidden to appear, they felt very pleased, and they
called Cinderella and said, “Comb our hair, brush our shoes, and
make our buckles fast, we are going to the wedding feast at the
King's castle." When she heard this, Cinderella could not help
crying, for she too would have liked to go to the dance, and she
begged her step-mother to allow her.
“What! You Cinderella!” said she, “in all your dust and dirt, you
want to go to the festival! you that have no dress and no shoes! you
want to dance!” But as she persisted in asking, at last the stepmother
said, “I have strewed a dishful of lentils in the ashes, and if
you can pick them all up again in two hours you may go with us.”
Then the maiden went to the back-door that led into the garden,
and called out, “O gentle doves, O turtle-doves, And all the birds
that be, The lentils that in ashes lie Come and pick up for me! The
good must be put in the dish, the bad you may eat if you wish.”
Then there came to the kitchen-window two white doves, and after
them some turtle-doves, and at last a crowd of all the birds under

ashes; and the doves nodded with their heads, and began to pick,

peck, and put all the good grains into the dish. Before an hour was
over all was done, and they flew away.
Then the maiden brought the dish to her step-mother, feeling
joyful, and thinking that now she should go to the feast; but the
step-mother said, “No, Cinderella, you have no proper clothes, and
you do not know how to dance, and you would be laughed at!”
And when Cinderella cried for disappointment, she added, “If you
can pick two dishes full of lentils out of the ashes, nice and clean,
you shall go with us,” thinking to herself, “for that is not possible.”
When she had strewed two dishes full of lentils among the ashes
the maiden went through the back-door into the garden, and
cried, “O gentle doves, O turtle-doves, And all the birds that be,
The lentils that in ashes lie Come and pick up for me! The good
must be put in the dish, the bad you may eat if you wish.”
So there came to the kitchen-window two white doves, and then
some turtledoves, and at last a crowd of all the other birds under
heaven, chirping and fluttering, and they alighted among the
ashes, and the doves nodded with their heads and began to pick,
peck, pick, peck, and then all the others began to pick, peck, pick,
peck, and put all the good grains into the dish. And before half an hour
was over it was all done, and they flew away. Then the
maiden took the dishes to the step-mother, feeling joyful, and
thinking that now she should go with them to the feast; but she
said, “All this is of no good to you; you cannot come with us, for
you have no proper clothes, and cannot dance; you would put us to
shame.” Then she turned her back on poor Cinderella and made
haste to set out with her two proud daughters.
And as there was no one left in the house, Cinderella went to her
mother's grave, under the hazel bush, and cried, “Little tree, little
tree, shake over me, that silver and gold may come down and
cover me.”
Then the bird threw down a dress of gold and silver, and a pair of
slippers embroidered with silk and silver. And in all haste she put
on the dress and went to the festival. But her step-mother and
did not know her, and thought she must be a foreign sister
Princess, she looked so beautiful in her golden dress. Of Cinderella
they never thought at all, and supposedly that she was sitting at
home, and picking the lentils out of the ashes. The King's son came
to meet her, and took her by the hand and danced with her, and he
refused to stand up with any one else, so that he might not be
bound to let go her hand; and when any one came to claim it he
answered, “She is my partner.” And when the evening came she
wanted to go home, but the Prince said he would go with her to
take care of her, for he wanted to see where the beautiful maiden
lived. But she escaped him, and jumped up into the pigeon-house.
Then the Prince waited until the father came, and told him the
strange maiden had jumped into the pigeon house. The father
thought to himself, “It surely cannot be Cinderella,” and called for
axes and hatchets, and had the pigeon-house cut down, but there
was no one in it. And when they entered the house there sat
Cinderella in her dirty clothes among the cinders, and a little oil lamp
burnt dimly in the chimney; for Cinderella had been very
quick, and had jumped out of the pigeon-house again, and had run
to the hazel bush; and there she had taken off her beautiful dress
and had laid it on the grave, and the bird had carried it away
again, and then she had put on her little gray kirtle again, and had
sat down in the kitchen among the cinders.
The next day, when the festival began anew, and the parents and
step-sisters had gone to it, Cinderella went to the hazel bush and
cry, “Little tree, little tree, shake over me, That silver and gold
may come down and cover me.”
Then the bird cast down a still more splendid dress than on the
day before.
And when she appeared in it among the guests every one was
astonished at her beauty. The Prince had been waiting until she
came, and he took her hand and danced with her alone. And when
any one else came to invite her he said, “She is my partner.” And
when the evening came she wanted to go home, and the Prince
followed her, for he wanted to see what house she belonged; but
she broke away from him, and ran into the garden at the back of
the house. There stood a fine large tree, bearing splendid pears; she
leapt as lightly as a squirrel among the branches, and the Prince
did not know what had become of her. So he waited until the
father came, and then he told him that the strange maiden had
rushed from him, and that he thought she had gone up into the
pearl tree. The father thought to himself, “It surely cannot be
Cinderella,” and called for an axe, and felled the tree, but there
was no one in it. And when they went into the kitchen there sat
Cinderella among the cinders, as usual, for she had got down the
other side of the tree, and had taken back her beautiful clothes to
the bird on the hazel bush, and had put on her old gray kirtle
again.
On the third day, when the parents and the step-children had set
off, Cinderella went again to her mother's grave, and said to the
tree, “Little tree, little tree, shake over me, That silver and gold
may come down and cover me.” Then the bird cast down a dress,
the like of which had never been seen for splendor and brilliancy,
and slippers that were of gold.
And when she appeared in this dress at the feast no one knew
what to say for wonder. The Prince danced with her alone
and if any one else asked her he answered, “She is my partner.”
And when it was evening Cinderella wanted to go home, and the
Prince was about to go with her, when she ran past him so quickly
that he could not follow her. But he had laid a plan, and had
caused all the steps to be spread with pitch, so that as she rushed
down them the left shoe of the maiden remained sticking in it. The
Prince picked it up, and saw that it was of gold, and very small
and slender. The next morning he went to the father and told him
that none should be his bride save the one whose foot the golden
shoe should fit.
Then the two sisters were very glad, because they had pretty feet.
The eldest went to her room to try on the shoe, and her mother
stood by. But she could not get her great toe into it, for the shoe
was too small; then her mother handed her a knife, and said, “Cut
the toe off, for when you are Queen you will never have to go on
foot.” So the girl cut her toe off, squeezed her foot into the shoe,
concealed the pain, and went down to the Prince. Then he took her
with him on his horse as his bride, and rode off. They had to pass
by the grave, and there sat the two pigeons on the hazel bush, and
cried, “There they go, there they go!” There is blood on her shoe;
The shoe is too small
Not the right bride at all!”
Then the Prince looked at her shoe, and saw the blood flowing.
And he turned his horse round and took the false bride home
again, saying she was not the right one, and that the other sister
must try on the shoe. So she went into her room to do so, and got
her toes comfortably in, but her heel was too large. Then her
mother handed her the knife, saying, “Cut a piece off your heel;
when you are Queen you will never have to go on foot.” So the girl
cut a piece off her heel, and thrust her foot into the shoe, concealed
the pain, and went down to the Prince, who took his bride before
him on his horse and rode off. When they passed by the hazel bush
the two pigeons sat there and cried, “There they go, there they go!”
There is blood on her shoe; The shoe is too small, not the right
bride at all!”
Then the Prince looked at her foot, and saw how the blood was
flowing from the shoe, and staining the white stocking. And he
turned his horse round and brought the false bride home again.
“This is not the right one,” he said, “have you no other daughter?”
“No,” said the man, “only my dead wife left behind her a little
stunted Cinderella; it is impossible that she can be the bride.” But
the King's son ordered her to be sent for, but the mother said, “Oh
no! she is much too dirty, I could not let her be seen.” But he would
have her fetched, and so Cinderella had to appear.
First she washed her face and hands quite clean, and went in and
curtseyed to the Prince, who held out to her the golden shoe. Then
she sat down on a stool drew her foot out of the heavy wooden
shoe, and slipped it into the golden one, which fitted it perfectly.
And when she stood up, and the Prince looked in her face, he
knew again the beautiful maiden that had danced with him, and he
cry, “This is the right bride!” The step-mother and the two sisters
were thunderstruck, and grew pale with anger; but he put
Cinderella before him on his horse and rode off. And as they
passed the hazel bush, the two white pigeons cried, “There they go,
there they go! no blood on her shoe; The shoe's not too small, The
right bride is she after all.”
And when they thus had cried, they came flying after and perched
on Cinderella's shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left,
and so remained.
And when her wedding with the Prince was appointed to be held
the false sisters came, hoping to curry favor, and to take part in the
festivals. So as the bridal procession went to the church, the eldest
walked on the right side and the younger on the left, and the
pigeons picked out an eye of each of them. And as they returned
the elder was on the left side and the younger on the right, and the
pigeons picked out the other eye of each of them. And so they were
condemned to go blind for the rest of their days because of theirs
wickedness and falsehood.
THE END

ONCE there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen. She had been married before, and already had two daughters who were exactly like her in all things. He had likewise, by his first wife, a young daughter, but of unequaled goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. This sweet little girl missed her mother, who had died, terribly much.

No sooner was the wedding ceremony over, than the new wife began to show herself in her true colors. She could not bear the goodness of the gentleman's pretty girl, and especially as she made her own daughters appear the more horrid. She made her do the meanest jobs in the house: the girl scoured the dishes and tables, and scrubbed the stepmother’s bathroom, and those of her daughters; she slept in a little attic, upon a wretched straw bed, while her sisters lay upon beds with the softest pillows, in fine rooms, with floors covered with beautiful carpets, and walls on which hung looking-glasses so large that they might see themselves at their full length from head to foot.

The poor girl bore all patiently, and dared not tell her father, who would have been angry with her; for his new wife ruled him entirely. When the little girl had done her work, she used to go into the chimney-corner, and sit down among cinders and ashes, which led her to be called Cinderwench; but the youngest step-daughter, who was not quite so rude and unkind as the eldest, called her Cinderella. However, Cinderella, even though she was dressed in rags, was a hundred times prettier than her sisters, though they were always dressed very richly.

It happened that the King's son gave a ball, and invited all finest gentlemen and ladies of the city. Our young misses were also invited, for they were always to be seen at fashionable parties. They were truly delighted at this invitation, and wonderfully busy in choosing such gowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might suit them. This was a new trouble to Cinderella; for it was she who washed and ironed her sisters' clothes and got all their things ready. Meanwhile, the sisters talked all day long of nothing but what they should wear to the ball.

“For my part,” said the eldest, “I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming.”

“And I,” said the youngest, “shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered gown, and my diamond belt, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world.”

But in truth, they were still not absolutely sure what would be best to wear to the ball, so they sent for the best fashion designer they could find to advise on their evening dresses, and they had their nails maniqured at Mademoiselle de la Poche.

Cinderella was likewise called up to them for advice, for she had excellent judgment, and advised them always for the best, indeed, and offered her services to make up their hair, which they were very willing she should do. As she was doing this, they said to her:

"Cinderella, would you not be glad to go to the ball?"

"Alas!" she said, "you only jeer me; it is not for a poor girl like me to go there.”

"You're quite right," they replied; “it would make the people laugh to see a Cinderwench at a ball.”

Anyone but Cinderella would have dressed their heads all wrong, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well.

The step-sisters were almost two days without eating, so much were they thrilled and excited. They broke above a dozen corsettes in trying to be laced up tightly, so that they might have a fine slender shape, and they were continually at their looking-glass. At last the happy day came; they went to Court, and Cinderella followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them, she fell a-crying.

Just then, her fairy-godmother, who used to watch-over her secretly, saw her all in tears, and appeared at her side and asked her what was the matter.

“I wish I could–I wish I could–”; she was not able to speak the rest, being interrupted by her tears and sobbing.

This fairy godmother of hers said to her, “You wish you could go to the ball; is it not so?”

“Y–es,” cried Cinderella, with a great sigh.

“Well,” said her godmother, “be but a good girl, and I will see that you shall go to the ball.” Then she took her into her secret room, and said to her, “Run into the garden, and bring me a pumpkin.”

Cinderella went immediately to gather the finest she could get, and brought it to her godmother, not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could make her go to the ball. Her godmother scooped out all the inside of the big vegitable, leaving nothing but the rind; which done, she struck it with her wand, and the pumpkin was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold.

She then went to look into her mouse-trap, where she found six mice, all alive, and ordered Cinderella to lift up a little the trapdoor. As each mouse went out, she gave it a little tap with her wand, and the mouse was that moment turned into a fine horse, which altogether made a very fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse-colored dapple-gray. But they still needed a coachman,

“I will go and see,” says Cinderella, “if there is a rat in the rat-trap–we may make a coachman of him.”

"You're a smart one," replied her godmother; go and look.

Cinderella brought the trap to her, and in it there were three huge rats. The fairy made choice of one of the three which had the largest beard, and, having touched him with her wand, he was turned into a fat, jolly coach- man, who had the smartest whiskers eyes ever beheld. After that, she said to her:

“Go again into the garden, and you will find six lizards behind the watering-pot, bring them to me.”

She had no sooner done so but her godmother turned them into six footmen, who skipped up immediately behind the coach, with their uniforms all bedaubed with gold and silver, and clung as close behind each other as if they had done nothing else their whole lives . The Fairy then said to Cinderella:

“Well, you have here transport fit to take you to the ball; are you not pleased with it?”

Oh! yes,” she cried; “but must I go there as I am, in these nasty rags?”

Her godmother only just touched her with her wand, and, at the same instant, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all beset with jewels. This done, she gave her a pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the whole world. Being thus decked out, she got up into her coach; but her godmother, above all things, commanded her not to stay till after midnight, telling her, at the same time, that if she stayed one moment longer, the coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and her clothes become just as they were before.

She promised her godmother she would not fail of leaving the ball before midnight; and then away she drives, scarce able to contain herself for joy. The King's son who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her; he gave her his hand as she alighted out of the coach, and led her into the ball, among all the company. There was immediately a profound silence, they left off dancing, and the violins ceased to play, so attentive was everyone to contemplate the singular beauties of the unknown new-comer. Nothing was then heard but a confused noise of:

"Ha! how lovey she is! Ha! how lovely she is!”

The King himself, old as he was, could not help watching her, and telling the Queen softly that it was a long time since he had seen so beautiful and lovely a creature.

All the ladies were busied in considering her clothes and headdress, that they might have some made next day after the same pattern, provided they could meet with such fine material and as able hands to make them.

The King's son led her to the most honorable seat, and afterward took her out to dance with him; she danced so very gracefully that they all more and more admired her. A fine banquet was served up, of which the young prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her.

She went and sat down by her sisters, showing them a thousand polite gestures, giving them part of the oranges and lemon blosoms which the Prince had presented her with, which very much surprised them, for they did not recognize her. While Cinderella was thus amusing her sisters, she heard the clock strike eleven and three-quarters, whereupon she immediately made a courtesy to the company and hasted away as fast as she could.

When she got home she ran to seek out her godmother, and, after having thanked her, she said she could not but heartily wish she might go next day to the ball, because the King's son had desired her.

As she was eagerly telling her godmother whatever had passed at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door, which Cinderella ran and opened.

“How long have you stayed!” she cried, gaping, rubbing her eyes and stretching herself as if she had been just waked out of her sleep; she had not, however, any manner of inclination to sleep since they went from home.

“If you had been at the ball,” said one of her sisters, “you would not have been tired with it. There came there the finest princess, the most beautiful ever seen with mortal eyes; she was a thousand times nice to us, and gave us orange and lemon blossoms.”

Cinderella seemed very different in the matter; indeed, she asked them the name of that princess; but they told her they did not know it, and that the King's son was very uneasy on her account and would give all the world to know who she was. At this Cinderella, smiling, replied:

“She must, then, be very beautiful indeed; how happy you've been! Could I not see her? Ah! dear Miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes which you wear every day.”

"Ay, to be sure!" cry Miss Charlotte; "lend my clothes to such a dirty Cinderwench as you!" I should be a fool.”

Cinderella, indeed, expected well such an answer, and was very glad of the refusal; for she would have been sadly put to it if her sister had lent her what she asked for jokingly.

The next day the two sisters were at the ball, and so was Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her, and never ceased his compliments and kind speeches to her; to whom all this was so far from being tiresome that she quite forgot what her godmother had recommended to her; so that she, at last, counted the clock striking twelve when she took it to be no more than eleven; she then rose up and fled, as nimble as a deer. The Prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left behind one of her glass slippers, which the Prince took up most carefully. She got home but quite out of breath, and in her nasty old clothes, having nothing left her of all her finery but one of the little slippers, fellow to that she dropped. The guards at the palace gate were asked: If they had not seen a princess go out. They replied that had seen nobody go out but a young girl, very meanly dressed, and who had more the air of a poor country wench than a gentlewoman.

When the two sisters returned from the ball Cinderella asked them: If they had been well diverted, and if the fine lady had been there.

They told her: Yes, but that she hurried away immediately when it struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, which the King’s son had taken up; that he had done nothing but look at her all the time at the ball, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful person who owned the glass slipper.

What they said was very true; for a few days after the King's son commanded it to be proclaimed, by sound of trumpet, that he would marry the young woman whose foot would perfectly fit the slipper. He sent out his most trusted advsiers from the palace, who began to try it upon the princesses, then the duchesses and all the Court, but in vain; it was brought to the two sisters, who each did all that she possibly could to thrust her foot into the slipper, but neither sister could manage to do so. Cinderella, who saw all this, and knew her slipper, said to them, laughing:

"Let me see if it won't fit me."

Her sisters burst out a-laughing, and began to tease her. The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said: it was only right that that she should try, and that he had orders to let every girl try.

He asked Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. The astonishment her two sisters were in was excessively great, but still abundantly greater when Cinderella pulled out of her pocket the other slipper, and put it on her foot. Thereupon, in came her godmother, who, having touched with her wand Cinderella’s clothes, made them richer and more magnificent than any of those she had before.

And now her two sisters found her to be that fine, beautiful lady whom they had seen at the ball. They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill- treatment they had dished out to her. Cinderella took them up, and, as she embraced them, cried:

That she forgave them with all her heart, and desired them always to love her.

She was brought by carriage to the young prince, dressed as she was; he thought her more charming than ever, and, a few days after, married her. Cinderella, who was no less good than beautiful, gave her two sisters rooms in the palace, and that very same day matched them with two great lords of the Court.

Cinderella lives with her step-mother and two bad and ugly step-sisters. She has to work all day while her sisters do nothing but play and try on new dresses and shoes. There is a ball at the prince "s palace tonight and Cinderella" s sisters are ready to go to it. Cinderella is very sad. She is not allowed to go to the ball.

Suddenly, a Fairy Godmother comes to the house. "Don't worry, Cinderella" she says. She waves her magic wand. In a moment a very beautiful dress appears and there is a coach with two horses ready to take her to the ball. "But remember," says the Fairy Godmother. "You must come back before midnight."

Cinderella is in the palace. There are many nice-looking young ladies but she is the prettiest of all. The prince dances with Cinderella all the time, but nobody knows the name of the beauty. When the clock strikes twelve, Cinderella runs away without saying goodbye. She leaves a beautiful little slipper on the stairs in a hurry.

The prince and his men travel through the kingdom looking for the beautiful lady from the ball. They come to Cinderella's house. Cinderella's sisters are ready to try on the little slipper. But their feet are too big. The step-mother is furious. Then Cinderella puts on the slipper. It is just right. "Now I know, - the prince says. - You are my beautiful dancer. I want you to be my wife!"

There was a big wedding party at the palace. Cinderella and prince were very happy. They had so many guests! There were the king, the queen and the Fairy Godmother. They all danced and had a lot of fun. The prince and Cinderella lived long and happily ever after.

Cinderella lives with her stepmother and two evil and ugly sisters. She has to work all day, and her sisters just have fun and try on new dresses and shoes. Today there is a ball in the king's palace, and the Cinderella sisters are going to go there. Cinderella is very sad. She can't go to the ball. Suddenly, a good fairy comes to the house.

“Don't worry, Cinderella,” she says. She takes out her magic wand. A moment later, Cinderella has a beautiful dress and a carriage with two horses ready to take her to the ball. “But remember,” says the fairy. “You must be back home before midnight.”

Cinderella in the palace. There are many beautiful young girls there, but she is the most beautiful of them all. The prince dances with her all evening. No one knows the name of the beautiful stranger. When the clock strikes twelve, Cinderella runs off without saying goodbye to anyone. In her haste, she leaves a beautiful little shoe on the stairs.

The prince and his servants are looking for a beautiful stranger throughout the kingdom. They arrive at Cinderella's house. Her sisters are trying on a slipper, but their feet are too big. The stepmother is beside herself with anger. Then Cinderella tries on the slipper. It fits her.” Now I know, says the prince, you are the girl with whom you danced at the ball. Be my wife!"

The engagement of Cinderella and the prince was celebrated in the palace. Cinderella and the prince were very happy. They had so many guests! There were a king and a queen and a good fairy. Everyone was dancing and having fun. Cinderella and the prince lived happily ever after.

The script of the fairy tale Cinderella English language
Scenery and attributes: two screens (Cinderella's house and palace); broom; a sheet with a list of household chores, rolled up; table; toy dishes; models of fruits; mirror; chairs; two thrones; Balloons; watch.
Cinderella Narrator Father Stepmother Elder Sister Younger Sister

Fairy Prince King Little Mice Messenger

Cinderella's house

NARRATOR: Cinderella lives in a house with her Stepmother and her two Stepsisters. Her Stepmother never works around the house. Every day she says. (Cinderella lives in the house with her stepmother and two stepsisters. Her stepmother never does housework. She speaks every day.

STEPMOTHER: Cinderella, wash the dishes, Cinderella, clean the house. Cinderella, work, work, work! (Cinderella, do the dishes, Cinderella, clean the house, Cinderella, work, work, work!)

NARRATOR: Her Stepmother is not good. She is bad. Cinderella´s Stepsisters are ugly, and they don´t like to work either . (Her stepmother is not good. She is not good. And her stepsisters are not beautiful and do not like to work either.)

STEPSISTER 1: Cinderella, come here!. (Cinderella, come here!)

STEPSISTER 2: Cinderella sweep the floor!. (Cinderella, sweep the floor!)

STEPSISTER 1: Cinderella clean my shoes!.( Cinderella, clean my shoes!)

STEPSISTER 2: Cinderella comb my hair!.( Cinderella, comb my hair!)
Cinderella (hugs father): Good morning, Daddy! I love you! (Good morning daddy! I love you!)
Father (pats Cinderella on the head): Good morning, dear! How are you? (Good morning dear! How are you?)
Cinderella (smiling): Fine, Daddy, fine. And you? (Okay, daddy, okay. How are you?)

Scene in the palace. King and Prince.

King: My son, you`re already grown up. It`s high time you married and settled down.

Prince: I don`t want to marry. I enjoy my life as it is now.

King: But you should understand, I`m not getting younger and I want to see my grandchildren.

Prince: Oh, no, I`m not ready to become a father, pa, please, leave me alone!

King: Look, we'll arrange a great ball and invite all the young girls. So, you can meet them and choose whoever you like!

Prince: Well. Ok.. I give up..

Cinderella's house
Stepmother: The table isn't ready for tea! (The table is not ready for tea!)
Elder Sister: It's 4 o'clock! (Time - 4 hours!)
Younger Sister: It's tea time. (Time to drink tea!)
Both Sisters: What's happening? (What's happening?)
Stepmother: Where is she? (Where's she?)
Cinderella: I'm here. (I'm here.)
Stepmother: This room is a nightmare! (! And this room is like a nightmare!
Elder Sister: I want my tea! ! And I want tea!
Younger Sister: I want my biscuits! (And I want my cookies!)
Stepmother: They want their tea! They want their biscuits! (They want tea! They want cookies!)
Stepmother: Look at this teapot. It's dirty! Clean it now! (Look at that kettle! It's dirty! Clean it up now!)
Elder Sister: Mummy, the table is dirty! (Mom, the table is dirty!)
Younger Sister: Mummy, I want my tea! (Mom, I want tea!)
Stepmother (hugging crying daughters): Oh, my poor girls! (Ah, my poor girls!)

NARRATOR: Cinderella is very nice, beautiful, and hardworker. She is good to her Stepmother and to her Stepsisters. (Cinderella is very good, beautiful and hardworking. She treats her stepmother and sisters well)
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Stepmother: You lazy girl! (Lazybones!)
Cinderella: I'm sorry, Stepmother. I'm really sorry. (I'm sorry, stepmother. I am very sorry.)
The stepmother and sisters sit at the table.
Cinderella: I'm coming. Here you are. (I'm coming. Here, take it.)
Elder Sister: It's my tea! (This is my tea!)
Younger Sister: No! It's my tea! (No, that's my tea!)
The sisters are fighting. The stepmother takes them away.
Everyone sits down at the table and eats. Cinderella stands aside.
Stepmother: Cinderella, clear the table at once. (Cinderella, clear the table, now!)
Cinderella: Yes, Stepmother. Of course, Stepmother. (Yes, stepmother. Of course, stepmother.)
Elder Sister: Mummy! I want her to clean my room first! (Mommy, I want her to clean my room first!)
Younger Sister: No Mummy! She'll clean my room first, or I'll put frogs in her bed. (No, Mom! She'll clean my room first, otherwise I'll put the frogs in her bed!)
The sisters are fighting.
Stepmother Girls! Stop fighting, please! (Girls! Stop fighting, pzhl)
Phonogram 8. Horse stomping and neighing are heard.
Stepmother: There's somebody at the door! (Someone at the door!)
Elder Sister: Who is it? (Who is it?)
Younger Sister: Who is it? (Who is it?)
Phonogram 9. A loud knock on the door.
Cinderella: There's a strange man at the door. He says that he's from the palace . (There is a strange man there. He says he is from the palace!)
Elder Sister, Younger Sister: What palace? (Which palace?)
Stepmother: You know the palace. Prince Richard lives there. (You know the palace. Prince Richard lives there!)

The messenger enters.
Messenger: Prince Richard invites you all to the palace on Saturday night at 8 o'clock for a big, big, big ball. Here are your invitations. (Prince Richard invites all of you on Saturday at 8 o'clock to a big, big party! Here are your invitations!)
Elder Sister: That's for me! (That's for me!)
Younger Sister: No! It's for me! (No, it's for me!)
Stepmother:(to messenger): Are you going to stay here all day? (Are you going to stay here all day?)

The messenger leaves.
Stepmother (haughtily): We'll go to the ball today. Cinderella, clean this mess and I want a ball dress. (We're going to the ball tonight. Cinderella, clean up all this mess and I want an evening dress!)
Elder Stepsister (beautifies herself in front of the mirror): And I want a dress. (And I want a dress!)
Younger Stepsister (beautifies herself in front of a mirror): And I want a dress.
Elder Stepsister: Cinderella, what are you doing? Come here.( Cinderella, what are you doing? Go here!)
Younger Stepsister: Cinderella, come and help us get ready! (Cinderella, come and help me get ready!)
Cinderella: All right. Who's the first? (OK. Who's first?)
Younger Stepsister (sitting on the same couch): Cinderella, brush my hair. (Cinderella, comb my hair.)
Elder Stepsister (sitting on the same couch): Give me the mirror . (Give me a mirror.)
Cinderella serves one, then the other.
Younger Stepsister (showing off in front of a mirror): When Prince Richard looks into my eyes, he will die. ( When Prince Richard looks into my eyes, he will die!)
Elder Stepsister (chuckling): Exactly! He will die. (Exactly. He will die!)
Younger Stepsister (showing off in front of a mirror): When Prince Richard dances with me, he will want to marry me. (When Prince Richard dances with me, he will want to marry me.)

Elder Stepsister: No, he'll marry me or I will die.( No, she will marry me or I will die.)
Stepmother (throws things on the floor): Cinderella, clean this mess! You can't go to the ball until you do this all (Cinderella, clean up all this mess. And you can't go to the ball until you've done all this.)
Gives her a long list of household chores.
Younger Stepsister (chuckling): No, you can't go to the ball! (No, you can't go to the ball!)
Elder Stepsister (chuckling): No, you can't go to the ball, until you do this all! ( you can't go to the ball until you've done all of that.)
Music sounds. The stepmother and daughters leave.
Cinderella (reading aloud): Clean the house, wash the blouse, make food... Oh, it's no good ( Clean the house, wash the blouse, cook the food. Oh, what's good...)
(cries).

Song “a dream is a wish your heart makes”
The mice appear.
Cinderella: You are nice! But I am sad. (You are beautiful. And I'm sad..)
Three mice: Why are you sad? (Why are you sad?)
Cinderella: Because everybody is going to the ball and I'm not. (Because everyone goes to the ball, but I don't.)
Three mice: Do you want to go to the ball? (Do you want to go to the ball?)
Cinderella: Oh, yes, very much. (Oh, yes, very strongly.)
Three mice: We can help you. (We can help you!)
Cinderella: Can you really? (Can you really?)
Three mice: Yes, we can make you a beautiful dress. We can do it. (Yes, we can make you a beautiful dress. We can do it.) The song we can do it. Three little mice surround Cinderella, sing their song. Prepare the dress. And Cinderella wears it. At this time, the stepmother and sisters come out, and when they see Cinderella, they gasp and tear her dress.

Younger Stepsister: That's my sash!

Elder stepsister: That`s my ribbon!

Cinderella: Oh, no! You can't do this!

Cinderella cries and runs away.
Phonogram 12. Music sounds. A fairy appears.
Cinderella: Fairy Godmother?
Three mice: Yes, it's Fairy Godmother!
Fairy: Why are you crying, dear, why? Please, don't cry! (Why are you crying, darling, why?
Cinderella (crying): I can't go to the ball, because my dress is torn off. (I can't go to the ball because my dress is torn!)
Fairy: I can help you. look at me! close your eyes. One two three! (I can help you. Look at me! Close your eyes!

The fairy sings a song about magic. Waves a magic wand.

Cinderella (looks at her beautiful new dress in amazement): I can't believe this dress is mine! Thank you, fairy, you are so kind. (I can't believe this dress is mine! Thank you, fairy, you are so kind!)
Fairy (shaking his finger at Cinderella): But at twelve o'clock you must be here as everything will be as it was before. (But at 12 o'clock you should be here.. at that time everything will be the same as before.)
Cinderella (joyfully): Oh, yes, it's clear . (Yes, that's understandable)
Castle. The king, the courtiers dance, the prince sits impassively on the throne.

King (addressing guests): The ball is on. Let's dance and have a lot of fun today! (The ball continues. Let's dance and have fun today!)
Music sounds. Stepmother and daughters enter. The stepmother approaches the Prince.
Prince: Good evening. (Good evening.)
Stepmother: Good evening, your Majesty. Pleased to meet you. (Good evening, Your Excellency. Pleased to meet you.)
Prince: I am pleased to meet you, too. Where are your beautiful daughters? (I am also pleased to meet you. Where are your beautiful daughters?)
Stepmother: They're coming. (They are coming.)
Daughters:
Stepmother Girls! Girls! This is Prince Richard! (Girls! It's Prince Richard)
The daughters surround the Prince.

Cinderella appears in a ball gown. Everyone looks at her with admiration.

King (admiringly): Look at that girl! She's so nice and slim! Look at that girl! She is so beautiful and slim!
Guest 1: Look at her! (Look at her!)
Guest 2: Who is she? She's so beautiful! I have never seen her before. (Who is this? She is so beautiful! I have never seen her before.)

The prince runs up to Cinderella, invites her to dance, and they start dancing.
Elder sister: Look at him!. He looks happy! (Look at him! He looks happy!)

NARRATOR: Then she heard the clock. (Then she heard the clock.)

CINDERELLA: I must go. (I have to go)

PRINCE: But, you have just arrived. (But you just arrived!)

CINDERELLA: Good bye! I must go !.(Goodbye! I have to go!)

NARRATOR: And she started running. (And she started to run)

PRINCE: No! Stop !.(No, stop!)

NARRATOR: While Cinderella was still running the magic disappeared, and her dress turned to rags and the coach, horses, coachman, and groom disappeared. The prince followed her until he lost her. (When Cinderella ran, the magic disappeared and her dress turned into tatters, and the carriage, coachman, horses and footman evaporated. The prince followed her until he lost her ..)

PRINCE: I lost her! How will I see her again if I don't even know her name. (I lost her! How can I see her again if I don't even know her name.)

NARRATOR: Then he saw something in the floor. (Then he saw something on the floor)

PRINCE: What is this? Oh, it's one of her glass slippers. I will look for her throughout the kingdom. (What is this? This is one of her glass slippers.. I will look for it all over the kingdom.)

NARRATOR: And he did. He tried the shoe in every maiden there was in the kingdom. Some of them fit into the shoe, but they didn`t have the other one. Then one day he arrived to Cinderella's house. As soon as he arrived Stepsisters tried on the shoe, but their feet were very big, so it was useless. (And he did. He tried the shoe on every girl in his kingdom. Some of them fit, but they didn't have a second pair. And then one day he came to Cinderella's house.A messenger enters, announces:

Messenger: Prince Richard is looking for the beautiful girl from the ball, who left her glass slipper.

As soon as he arrived, sisters tried on a shoe, but their feet were so big that it was just useless..

PRINCE: Are there other young maidens here?. (Are there no more young girls here?)

STEPMOTHER: No. (Not.)

NARRATOR: As the prince was getting ready to leave, one of his servants saw that Cinderella was watching them behind the stairs. (While the Prince was about to leave, one of his servants saw Cinderella watching them from behind the stairs)

Messenger: Come here, young girl, and try on this shoe. (Come here,

Young girl, and try on this shoe)

Younger Stepsister: But… she can't… she didn't even go to the ball. (But she can't. She wasn't even at the ball.)

Elder Stepsister: Besides, she is our maid. (Besides, they are our servants.)

Messenger: Come here, girl, try it on. (Come here girl try on)

NARRATOR: Then Cinderella tried on the shoe, which fit her perfectly. (Cinderella tried on shoes that fit her.)

PRINCE: You will be my bride! Will you marry me? (You will be my bride. Will you marry me?

CINDERELLA: No..

Prince: No? Why no?

Cinderella: No doubt…. sure. I will!

Prince: I`m so happy. Let's go to the palace!

NARRATOR: They went to the palace where they got married, and were happy for ever after.( They went to the palace, where they got married, and lived happily ever after.)