New storyline..!!!

Please ignore the music notations added in.

Note: Major changes
- All characters have a monologue which sticks to Chinese Opera tradition and also helps the audience understand the storyline better.
- Bound feet is one of the main issues brought up here.


Scene 1

- Cinderella on set working happily
- Stepmum and stepsis calls
- Ask Cinderella to do her chores… (same as in the old script) –track 8 guangdong music
- Announcement from the royal palace
- Step mum tells step sis about her expectations from her and all the preperations that she had already dine for her daughter. The binding of her feet, etc. Tells her a bit of her past as well.
- Cinderella ask if she could go. Step mum says haven’t you been listening to what I have been saying? Stepsis tell Cindi that without bound feet she cannot go.
- Cindi and step mum exit.
- Step sis monologue about what she had to become because of her step mum and the expectations she has to meet + her jealousy of cindi. Exit.
- Cinderella monologue- about how she cannot make it to the ball, that all she wanted was to attend the ball, not event o marry the prince and that her dreams ruined. Track 3 guangdong music
- Fairy Godfather enters and introduces himself and then says that he will help her. –track 11 guagdong
- Helps her.

Scene 2

- Step mum and sis enter the ball… -track 13 guagdong
- Prince and cindi dance-track 1 guangdong music
- All the rest the same.

Scene 3

- Prince finds the shoe realizes that he cannot marry her because her feet are not bound but still wants to find her. (monologue) –track 1- everlasting – 1 min ++
- Fairy Godfather and Cindi enter trying to find shoe.

Scene 4

- Step mum shows her disappointment in step sis for not getting the prince. Track 2- masterpieces
- Prince enters with shoe, step mum forces step sis to try again and again.
- Step sis apologizes for mothers behavious. Prince likes the step sis but not in THAT way.
- Cinderella enters (how?), tries on shoe and fits.
- Step mum objects states what culture dictates (bound feet).
- Prince says that he will take her as a concubine
- Step mum says that he will need a queen 1st so why not take the step sis cause only THEN will she allow Cindi to get married to him. Prince agrees, everyone happy and exits.
- Step sis ends with monologue about how she may have fulfilled her step mum's dream, and cindi’s dreams were fulfilled but hers weren’t. She doesn’t have a man to love her. She knows that she will always be second to cindi as far as matters of the Princes heart go. Wonders if she was herself things would have been diff. track 8 everlasting.