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The book for this version of the popular pantomime story is said to have followed the 'long-accepted lines of the conventional Cinderella revival.' The Sydney Morning Herald review suggests, too, that the production's success was primarily due to Taylor having emphasised 'the salient incidents of the fairy legend... the beacons on the ocean of topical verbiage' (24 December 1894, p.6).

Songs incorporated into the 1894 production, a large number of which were recent successes from London and America, included: 'Alas I do not Know' and 'O That We Two Were Maying' (sung by Ray Jones); 'I Seek For Thee in Every Flower' and 'Sweet Marie' (James Norrie); 'Swim Out, Gormano,' and 'At Trinity Church I Met My Doom' (Horace Wheatley); 'Sligo,' 'Sweet Marie,' and 'Songs My Mother Sang' (James Norrie); 'Musical Madness' (duet by Hagan and Fraser); 'Ours is a Happy Home' (Martin Hagan); 'Out

on The Spree' (Lucy Fraser); and 'Hush-A-Bye, My Little Pickaninny.' Additional musical performances included a 'Clog Hornpipe' (dance by Horace Wheatley), 'The Fairy Apple Blossoms Ballet' and 'The Unique, Red, White and Blue Ballet.'

The 1895 Brisbane season included such songs as 'Little Alabama Coon' (Marie Luella) and the instrumental/dance numbers, 'The Toilet Minuet,' 'The Tricolour Barn Dance' and 'All Nations Ballet.' Other highlights of the production included: 'The Tableaux Vivants Nursery Tales,' 'The Sports Procession "Pan-Britannic Festival"' (which included the 'Champion Lady Cyclists' and 'Popular Jockey's Hornpipe'), 'The Processions of Fairy Toilet Articles,' 'The Brilliant Electric Carriage,' 'The Dazzling Illuminated Palace,' and 'The Death and Burial o' Poor Cock Robin.'