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,
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are "Die Unstillbare Gier", a song performed by the character Graf von Krolock in the rock-opera "Tanz der Vampire". Steve Barton performed the song on the 1998 Original Vienna Cast Recording. Steinman rewrote the "Tanz" version into English as "Confession of a Vampire" for the ill-fated US version ("Dance of the Vampires") of the musical starring Michael Crawford. Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" is a song composed and written by Jim Steinman, and recorded by Meat Loaf. The song was released in