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The name "Cenerentola" comes from the Italian word "cenere" (ash, cinder). It has to do with the fact that servants and scullions were usually soiled with ash at that time, because of their cleaning work and also because they had to live in cold basements so they usually tried to get warm by sitting close to the fireplace.
===''La gatta Cenerentola'', by Basile===
[[Giambattista Basile]], a Neapolitan writer, soldier and government official, assembled a set of oral folk tales into a written collection titled ''Lo cunto de li cunti'' (The Story of Stories), or ''[[Pentamerone]]''. It included the tale of Cenerentola, which features a wicked stepmother and evil stepsisters, magical transformations, a missing slipper, and a hunt by a [[Absolute monarchy|monarch]] for the owner of the slipper. It was published posthumously in 1634.
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===Ball, ballgown, and curfew===
The number of balls varies, sometimes one, sometimes two, and sometimes three. The [[fairy godmother]] is Perrault's own addition to the tale.<ref>Jane Yolen, p 23, ''Touch Magic'' {{ISBN|0-87483-591-7}}</ref> The person who aided Cinderella (Aschenputtel) in the [[Brothers Grimm|Grimms]]'s version is her dead mother. Aschenputtel requests her aid by praying at her grave, on which a tree is growing. Helpful doves roosting in the tree shake down the clothing she needs for the ball. This motif is found in other variants of the tale as well, such as in the Finnish ''[[The Wonderful Birch]]''. Playwright [[James Lapine]] incorporated this motif into the Cinderella plotline of the musical ''[[Into the Woods]]''. [[Giambattista Basile]]'s ''
The midnight curfew is also absent in many versions; Cinderella leaves the ball to get home before her stepmother and stepsisters, or she is simply tired. In the Grimms' version, Aschenputtel slips away when she is tired, hiding on her father's estate in a tree, and then the pigeon coop, to elude her pursuers; her father tries to catch her by chopping them down, but she escapes.<ref>Maria Tatar, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, p 116 W. W. Norton & company, London, New York, 2004 {{ISBN|0-393-05848-4}}</ref>
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*''[[Mr. Cinders]]'', a musical, opened at the [[Adelphi Theatre]], London in 1929 and received a film version in 1934.
*''[[Cindy (musical)|Cindy]]'', a 1964 [[Off-Broadway]] musical, was composed by [[Johnny Brandon]] and has had many revivals.
*''[[La Gatta Cenerentola]]'', a 1976 Italian musical in [[Neapolitan language]] with music and lyrics by [[Roberto De Simone]], based on Giambattista Basile's version of the story.
*''[[Into the Woods]]'', a musical with music and lyrics by [[Stephen Sondheim]] and book by [[James Lapine]], includes Cinderella as one of the many fairy-tale characters in the plot. This is partly based on the Grimm Brothers' version of "Cinderella", including the enchanted birds, mother's grave, three balls, and mutilation and blinding of the stepsisters. It opened on Broadway in 1987 and has had many revivals. In this show, Cinderella is actually the Baker's ex-sister-in-law, since she married her prince and her prince's brother married Rapunzel, and the baker is Rapunzel's brother. After she divorced the prince she became Rapunzel and the Baker's ex-sister-in-law.
*''[[Cinderella (Lloyd Webber musical)|Cinderella]]'' is a musical composed by [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] that premiered in the West End in 2021.
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