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“We all had our demons, thinking: do I still remember how to act and sing and dance?” Being back on stage has been a rush, if nervy. Ormson says Frozen’s lyrics about “opening up the gates” of the castle in Arendelle have chimed with its cast and audiences alike, wearily coming out of lockdown. Cinderella’s original cast recording, released before it opened, was partially done in a DIY studio in Fletcher’s bedroom. As the theatre industry was plunged into crisis, their shows were repeatedly postponed. The chemistry sparked on stage and off, they moved in together, then the pandemic hit. The show is a hymn to friendship rather than any coup de foudre.įletcher and Ormson first locked eyes during auditions for The Addams Family which toured in 2017 she remembers him as “handsome yet terrifying”. In Fennell’s version, Cinderella and her childhood pal Sebastian are surprised to find themselves falling in love with each other. Open up the gates … Stephanie McKeon as Anna and Oliver Ormson as Hans in Frozen. “You think: I really wish she hadn’t done that,” says Fletcher. It’s a spin on the usual transformation which invites us to delight in plain Cinders magically becoming desirable. Fletcher laughs remembering the outfit she wore to that meeting: black dress and Docs.įletcher’s grungy rebel enters a pact with the fairy godmother in a makeover scene that chills more than glitters because she is changing who she is. When Fletcher was invited by Lloyd Webber to a top-secret meeting about his new musical, the composer told her: “This isn’t the usual version of Cinderella – she’s not Disney, she wears black, she’s a bit grungy, she wears Doc Martens.” As such, she’s a sore thumb in Belleville. Instead, Hans ultimately “heightens the message of sisterhood and the importance of family and friends”. “People expect Hans to be the hero, sweep Anna off her feet and save the day,” says Ormson. “Your jawline could cut glass for god’s sake.”īoth shows upend fairytale traditions. “You look like a Disney prince,” she laughs. Ormson was “the head hunk” in the workshop, Fletcher notes. As “the biggest Disney fan on the planet”, Fletcher would have seen Frozen a few times even without Ormson in the cast: “When I heard Oliver was going to play Hans I think maybe I was even more excited than him.” Ormson had a part in the original workshop for Cinderella as one of the buffed denizens who put the pecs into the impeccably groomed town of Belleville, created by writer Emerald Fennell.
The pair each got a night off to see the other’s show. Goth girl … Carrie Hope Fletcher with Gloria Onitiri as the Godmother in Cinderella.
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