The ABC/Wonderful World of Disney Emmy-winning television event, written by Robert L. Freedman, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997) premiered on Disney+ February 12, 2021 to great acclaim. Starring Whitney Houston, Brandy, Whoopi Goldberg, Victor Garber, Bernadette Peters, Jason Alexander, Natalie Desselle, Veanne Cox, and Paolo Montalban, Cinderella was produced by Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Debra Martin Chase, and Whitney Houston, and directed by Rob Iscove, with choreography by Rob Marshall. The movie premiered to an audience of over 60 million, unheard of in this day and age, and garnered Robert a Writers Guild Award nomination for his teleplay.

LINK: “It’s Possible: An Oral History of 1997’s Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella”