It started as a musical written especially for television, premiering in March 1957 on CBS-TV in a production telecast live and in color from New York and featuring a young Julie Andrews in the lead role. (That version only exists now as a black-and-white kinescope film.) In 1965 CBS videotaped, again in color, a new version of the show at Television City in Hollywood, starring a young Leslie Ann Warren. That version was rerun every holiday season for years to come. Finally in 1997 came an updated TV version featuring Brandy Norwood. Stage adaptations of the show began appearing in the early 1960s. We're talking about Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Cinderella" which is performed this weekend and next by students of Logan-Rogersville High School. We were joined in the studio this morning by Cinderella and Prince Charming, Logan-Rogersville seniors Dorie Lea and Logan Hale, and by the school's choral director Rebecca Barringer. "We usually choose our shows based on our current
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