Rehearsal for Cinderella was scheduled fpr 6 p.m. in the theater-auditorium at Marysville High School. Thirty, maybe 35 actors, singers, dancers, stagehands and parents trying to make themselves useful were all there.

Musical director Steve Shepard was at the piano, jabbing at keys, testing for notes certain singers could reach and hold: plink-plink-plink-plink, plank-plank-plank, plonk-plonk-plonk, PLINK!

After a bit of that, Shepard shifted his attention to a different region of the keyboard: plunk-plunk-plunk-plunk, plonk-plink-plink-PLOOOOOOOONK!

Director Wendie Marks wandered. Down to the costumers. Up on the stage. Back to the front to huddle with the actors. Something was muttered, but what? The acoustics in the WPA-era auditorium were horrible. What ummm-mumms-mmms didn’t echo into incompehensibility disappeared into a dead spot.

The theater itself is of that WPA Depression era architectural period, and is, or could be again, a gem. But it is too large.. It seats in the neighborod of 1,100 people, if memory serves . When fill it probably does not ECHO-echo=ECHO-echo quite as badly, muffling and mixing the reverberating syllables in a muddy mess of confusing sounds.

Show producer Linda Plummer and stage mom Patty Fayette were assembling costumes. It is the fantasy Cinderella, of course, so there are lots of shawls and long skirts and medieval vests and Snow Whie chain bodices to give the impression of a mythical kingdom of an indeterminate yesteryear.

The set on stage at the is that of Westside Story, another show in the works. Two large directional arrows are painted onto the stage Floor, suggesting traffic indicators as might be found in upper Manahattan, or the lower Bronx where the story is supposed to occur.

This, then, is a good opportunity to raise again a question that has plagued many since Westside Story opened for the first time on Broadway.

The storyline is a rehash of Romeo and Juilet, the love story-tragedy penned by William Shakespeare. His initials are, or were, WS. Westside Story has the same WS initials. Coincidence? Or an inside joke by playwright and the librettist? You be the judge.

But back to Cinderella.

Cinderella Dahni Trujillo is cast opposite Prince Charming Nicheal Campbell.

Trujillo, we've lauded before. Campell is a fine singer, rather operatic in quality, (remember, the acoustics are awful so if he sounds that good he must be fabulously talented).