The Blue Hill Troupe, New York City’s only philanthropic musical theater group, will kick off its 101st season with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” The leading cast boasts five Brooklynites, including Troupe President David Pasteelnick and Rachel Naugle, who plays Ella.
With glorious songs by the incomparable duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II — including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Ten Minutes Ago,” “Impossible” and “A Lovely Night”— this 2013 Broadway revival version of the musical originally written for television, broadcast in 1957 features a new book by award-winning playwright Douglas Carter Beane (“The Little Dog Laughed,” “As Bees in Honey Drown”), putting a fresh, funny, uplifting spin on the classic fairy tale.
Every year the Blue Hill Troupe donates its net proceeds from two fully staged productions, one Gilbert & Sullivan operetta and one musical theater piece, to a New York City-based charity. Since its inception in 1924, the troupe has donated over $12 million (adjusted for inflation) to its charity partners. Proceeds from the 2024-25 season will benefit the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC), an award-winning multicultural youth chorus founded and directed by Francisco J. Nuñez, a MacArthur Fellow and Musical America’s 2018 Educator of the Year.