CINDERELLA's William Ivey Long Wins Best Costume Design, Musical

William Ivey Long has won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN's CINDERELLA. The revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood marks Mr. Long's 64th Broadway costume design.

Other credits include Chicago, now in its 16th year,Don't Dress for Dinner; Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway; Catch Me if You Can; Pal Joey; Young Frankenstein; Curtains; Grey Gardens; The Boy from Oz; Little Shop of Horrors; Hairspray; The Producers; The Music Man; Contact; Swing; Cabaret; 1776; Smokey Joe's Café; Guys and Dolls; Crazy for You; Six Degrees of Separation; Assassins; Lend me a Tenor; Nine. He has designed for Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage Hotel, The Pointer Sisters at Caesar's Palace, Joan Rivers at the Venetian Hotel, Mick Jagger for the Steel Wheels tour, Patti LuPone, Patti LaBelle, Liza Minelli, and for choreographers Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Peter Martins, Susan Stroman and David Parsons. Mr. Long has won five Tony Awards, with twelve nominations. In addition he has won three Hewes Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, and four Outer Critics Circle Awards. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2006 and became the Chairman of the American Theatre Wing in 2012.

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, a new book by Douglas Carter Beane and original book by Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is directed by Mark Brokaw. Josh Rhodes is choreographer. Music adaptation, supervision and arrangements are by David Chase. Andy Einhorn is music director and conductor. To pre-order album, please visit www.sh-k-boom.com/cinderella.html.

Along with the songs that fans of RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella know - "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible," "Ten Minutes Ago" and "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" - the recording presents seamlessly-integrated Rodgers and Hammerstein musical material from other projects, including "Me, Who Am I?," "Now Is The Time," and a song heard in the 1997 Whitney Houston adaptation, "There's Music In You."

This recording - featuring a 29 member cast and a 20 piece orchestra - includes a full color booklet, a plot synopsis by Douglas Carter Beane and an essay about the rich history of the score by Ted Chapin, President and Executive Director of the Rodgers & Hammerstein: An Imagem Company. David Lai, David Caddick, David Chase and Bruce Pomahac produced the album with Kurt Deutsch serving as Executive Producer.

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella, one of their most popular titles, was written for television, debuting in 1957 starring Julie Andrews. The musical has never been performed on Broadway, although stage adaptations have been performed worldwide since 1958. Along with Cinderella, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's legendary musicals include Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King And I, South Pacific and The Sound of Music.

MR. Beane's book for RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella offers a new romantic twist on the ultimate makeover story of a maid-turned-princess, mixing fresh comedy and wit with the beloved tale's classic elements - the pumpkin, glass slipper, masked ball and more.

RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S Cinderella is produced by Robyn Goodman, Jill Furman, Stephen Kocis, Edward Walson, Venetian Glass Productions, The Araca Group, Luigi Caiola & Rose Caiola, Roy Furman, Walt Grossman, Peter May/Sanford Robertson, Glass Slipper Productions LLC /Eric Schmidt, Ted Liebowitz/James Spry, Blanket Fort Productions and is produced in association with Center Theatre Group. Charles Salameno is associate producer.