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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Georgia><FONT color=#121212>Composer
George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe have made a career out of adding music
to famous fairytales like “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Three Little Pigs” and “Mary
Poppins,” and bringing them to the stage.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#121212>In Mercury Theatre’s “Soho
Cinders,” a show that </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>received its world premiere in London’s off-West End in
2012</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#121212> and
has rarely been seen elsewhere since, the Cinderella story has been
significantly re-envisioned. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Its
infrequent stagings are no doubt due to the nature of its reincarnation as a
decidedly naughty modern musical rather than the quality of the work itself,
which is arguably some of Stiles and Drewe’s best.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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