Would you like to see Cinderella performed by a male dancer?

I wouldn’t go.
I don’t know why people have to sod about with traditional plays/ballets. If I wanted to see Cinderella, I’d want to see it done fairly traditionally.

We recently saw a theatre production of Shakespeare’s Richard III - with a woman playing Richard. I just cannot fathom why anyone would think this was a good idea.
Came home and ordered a DVD with Laurence Olivier playing the lead. 🙂

I understand the concept , but for me there are some stories I like to be left to be traditional. I saw Swan Lake performed by Matthew Bourne’s company and it was powerful and unforgettable.
At Christmas I want to be enchanted by a traditional ballet with exquisite dancing and music and forget about ‘issues’ for a few hours.
I wouldn’t want to pay for a ticket and not know what which performance I was going to see.

Personally I’d prefer the traditional version, but it all depends how they play it and how far removed from the traditional tale they go. As long as Cinderella gets to go to the ball, wears a wonderful sparkly fairy tale costume and gets the Prince at the end I’d cope

No I would not, particularly if I wasn't informed before hand. Would this dancer be en pointe? Pretending to be female?
I saw Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and I did not enjoy it at all; I thought it was pretentious and desperately trying to be different. Why not tell a new story with an all male cast, not mimicking a traditional form.

When I saw the heading, I thought the handsome Prince would be rescuing a male Cindereddie.

I, too, like the tradition tales. However, if it's a complete switch around of the male and female lead roles it could be interesting.

Chestnut

Well it's up to people to vote by going or not going. I wouldn't go, I like my fairy stories traditional. Let's see if it's another case of 'go woke, go broke'.

We can only hope.

Audiences attending the production of Cinders will not know until the curtain goes up whether the main character will be a man or a woman.

One version will be traditional - with a female Cinderella being swept off her feet by her Prince Charming.

But in the other, a male Cinders will be rescued from a life of drudgery by his princess.

The female will wear the ballgown, regardless of whether she is playing Cinders or the princess that falls in love with the male Cinders.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66947638

Cinderella is just a rags to riches tale of a underling coming up in the world, based on the story of a slave girl who marries the King of Egypt. Why not a slave boy who marries the Queen of Egypt?

I don’t see anything wrong in switching the parts around.

As I said on your other post, pantomimes mix up genders at Christmas. Why shouldn't Scottish Ballet? Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake was beautiful and powerful and the swans were played by men.

Well it's up to people to vote by going or not going. I wouldn't go, I like my fairy stories traditional. Let's see if it's another case of 'go woke, go broke'.

I definitely would.
I remember seeing Matthew Bourne's all male Swan Lake many years ago, and it was amazing.

I wouldn’t go. If others wish to go fair enough, but I like traditional stories to be just that, traditional.