Ahead of this week’s Friday Night Movie Club Ball, we asked Brandy to do the impossible and take us back to 1997. “I was like, ‘This is not real.’ It was mind-blowing.”Īlmost 24 years later, the musical, co-starring Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Alexander, Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber, and Paolo Montalban as the charming Prince Christopher, is (finally) heading to Disney+. “I was so blown away by the fact that Whitney Houston called me to be the first Black Cinderella,” she told Vulture through the magic of Zoom. But it’s Brandy who experienced the Cinderella transformation firsthand, complete with fairy godmother. “I never thought that I would be on set with her hanging out in a pumpkin, in a dress, and she’s got a wand.” Disney’s 1997 adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella was a dream come true for executive producer Whitney Houston (originally tapped to play Cindy herself) and for Black girls around the world. “Oh my God, I used to have dreams of her when I was a kid, like being at her house and hanging out with her,” said Brandy, now 41, fresh off her seventh album release. Not a random cloud of gases dying somewhere lifetimes away. When Brandy Norwood was just a little girl, she was wishing on a star. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Walt Disney Television On singing with Whitney Houston, the fate of the movie’s soundtrack, and building up impossible hopes for Black girls everywhere.
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