Cinderella pantomime in both story and style at the Royal Strand Theatre in 1860: "Cinderella! Or the Lover, the Lackey, and the Little Glass Slipper". In the traditional pantomime version the opening scene takes place in a forest with a hunt in progress; here Cinderella first meets Prince Charming and his "right-hand man" Dandini, whose name and character come from Gioachino Rossini's opera ("La Cenerentola"). Cinderella mistakes Dandini for the Prince and the Prince for Dandini. Her father, Baron Hardup, is under the thumb of his two stepdaughters, the Ugly sisters, and has a servant, Cinderella's friend Buttons. (Throughout the pantomime,
Pantomime (EP) the CD by the artist ‘Megurine Luka (巡音ルカ "Megurine Ruka")’. Megurine Ruka is a humanoid persona voiced by a singing synthesizer application developed by Crypton Future Media, headquartered in Sapporo, Japan. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloid 4 singing synthesizing technology. All songs were written by the pillows. Tracks 1,3,4 and 5 written by Sawao Yamanaka. Track 2 was composed by Kenji Ueda, with lyrics by Sawao Yamanaka. All pricing as at release date(s). All credits taken from album liner notes. the pillows cast [1989–2009] 20th Anniversary Special Edition Pantomime (EP) "Pantomime" was re-released (TECN-15397) in 1998 as