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Whitney Houston was producing Rodger and Hammerstein's "Cinderella" and was to star in it until she decided that Brandy Norwood would make a better Cinderella. Brandy would not do it unless her idol Whitney took the Fairy Godmother role.
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Cinderella was produced for the Walt Disney Company for their revival of The Wonderful World of Disney series.
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The song "Falling in Love With Love", from the Rodgers and Hart musical "The Boys from Syracuse", was added and sung by Bernadette Peters as the Stepmother.
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"The Sweetest Sounds" from Richard Rodgers' musical "No Strings" was added and sung by Cinderella and the Prince.
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"There's Music in You", written by Rodgers and Hammerstein for the film Main Street to Broadway, was sung as the finale by the Fairy Godmother, Whitney Houston.
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The production won two awards: The Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program.
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Brandy Norwood became the first African-American to play Cinderella. This version broke viewer-ship records when it debuted, and it holds the record for the bestselling video for a made for TV movie.
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