"Ten minutes ago I saw you. You looked up when I came through the door. My head started reeling you gave me the feeling the room had no ceiling or floor..."
Cinderella, the Rodgers and Hammerstein version, began as a made - for TV musical. It was originally broadcast in black and white the 31st of March, 1957. They cast Julie Andrews as Cinderella after seeing her as the original Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. There were two more remakes of the movie, including the 1997 version with Brandy playing the title role. Yes, Julie Andrews was the original Cinderella and the original Eliza Doolittle before she ever became Mary Poppins or Maria von Trapp.
"Ten Minutes Ago" happens at the top of the second of three acts. The song is a waltz written in three quarter time. It is sung first by the Prince and second by Cinderella as they instantly fall in love with each other and dance at the ball. The words are identical and while the line whirls around it is easy to get caught up in the whirl of a new love. The biggest question when performing it as a solo, and not in the arms of someone, is how do you recreate the swirl and whirl of romance when it is you, singularly, on a stage? Better read the lyrics carefully!
One note on the recording - the quality of the sound isn't quite right. It doesn't capture Julie's fullness of sound that was most definitely present in the recordings made of My Fair Lady around the same time.
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