Students from the Music, Worship and Performing Arts Department at Lancaster Bible College (LBC) will present "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella: Broadway Version," with the debut performance taking place on Friday, Sept. 22, and the musical closing during LBC's Homecoming and Family Weekend on Saturday, Sept. 30.

Showtimes will be 7 p.m. on Sept. 22; 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23; 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28; and 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, and Sept. 30. Performances will be held at the Good Shepherd Chapel, 901 Eden Road, Lancaster.

In this fairytale, audiences meet Ella - played by Paris Black, a junior musical theater major from Ephrata, - a poor, fatherless girl forced into servitude by her stepmother and stepsisters. When the royal family announces a ball to find a wife for Prince Topher - played by Carter Rutkowski, a senior musical theater major from Elizabethtown - the kingdom is filled with excitement even though it is on the edge of disaster.

The 2013 Broadway production of "Cinderella" is based on the original Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television and broadcast live in color on March 31, 1957, starring Julie Andrews. The 2013 musical was nominated for nine Tony Awards and won one. The musical toured nationally, followed by several international productions.

Girls and boys are invited to dress up as their favorite "Cinderella" character and meet Cinderella and her friends after the Sept. 29 show.

To purchase tickets to "Cinderella," visit http://www.lbc.edu/events.

During the 2023-24 academic year, LBC is celebrating 90 years of educating Christian students. To learn more about the celebration, visit http://www.lbc.edu/90.