Sleeping Beauty (1959 film) glass windows and figures. Princess Aurora (and, to a lesser extent, Prince Phillip, Fauna, Flora and Merryweather, Maleficent and her goons) makes regular appearances in the parks and parades. Maleficent is featured as one of the villains in the nighttime show "Fantasmic!" at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios. A scaled-down one act stage musical version of the film with the title "Disney's Sleeping Beauty KIDS" is often performed by schools and children's theaters. With book and additional lyrics by Marcy Heisler and Bryan Louiselle, the show is composed of twelve musical numbers, including the movie songs. In Walt Disney Pictures'
The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales The Practical Princess and other Liberating Fairy Tales is a collection of six short stories, written by Jay Williams, in 1979, and published by Hippo from Scholastic. Each story features nods in some way to classic Fairy tales. The Practical Princess was first published in 1969 by Parents Magazine Press as a standalone picture book, with award-winning illustrations by Friso Henstra, reissued in 2016 by Purple House Press. The newborn Princess Bedelia of Arapathia is blessed by three good fairies with the gifts of beauty, grace (ala Sleeping Beauty), &... Common sense.