here's the bbc�*s alan yentob. yes, fingers crossed, theatre is back. andrew lloyd webber�*s much anticipated new musical, cinderella, is back in town. three years in the making, weeks of previews — then they were pinged, and the show did not go on. this radical take on the cinderella story was written by the oscar winner emerald fennell. well, here we are. so, the show�*s on, eh? you never know, but short of us having to be taken screaming from the theatre, it's going to open. i have to say, this is unlike any other cinderella that i've ever seen. i mean, my phrase is, this is a cinderella for our time. # barking mad cinderella flying high in the sky... . it's the most well— known story in the world, and so that... it's good and bad. it means that the audience anticipates, certain things, they expect certain things, and so, really, the conversation we had was, well, how do we do something new, how do we make it a story that feels exciting and gripping, while still having the shoe, the clock at midnight, you know, the transformation, all those things? s

here's the bbc�*s alan yentob. yes, fingers crossed, theatre is back.h anticipated new musical, cinderella, is back in town. three years in the making, weeks of previews — then they were pinged, and the show did not go on. this radical take on the cinderella story was written by the oscar winner emerald fennell. well, here we are. so the show�*s on, eh? you never know, but short of us having to be taken screaming from the theatre, it's going to open. i have to say, this is unlike any other cinderella that i've ever seen. i mean, my phrase is, this is a cinderella for our time. # barking mad cinderella flying high in the sky... . it's the most well— known story in the world, and so that is good and bad, it means that the audience anticipates certain things, they expect certain things, and so, really, the conversation we had was, well, how do we do something new, how do we make it a story that feels exciting and gripping, while still having the shoe, the clock at midnight, you know, the transformation, all those things? so it was about, yeah, about surpri

that report by the bbc�*s alan yentob. time for a look at the weather here's louise lear.hanks george, i could do with a magic wand to change the weather story, we are all going a bit stir crazy with the cloud cover at the moment, and there is more to come as we go through the night tonight and into tomorrow. quite a lot of cloud tonight, they can afford drizzle across the north and the west, it is going to be a murky start as well generally, and temperatures bearing up, into the mid teens, so a mild start, but another grey one once again, bits and pieces of brighter, sunnier moments coming through before we see scattered showers coming from the west. tomorrow it really is going to be a messy picture to tell, temperatures peaking at 13—21 degrees, still down on where they should be for this time of year. as we move into friday, it looks likely to be a decent day, yes, a weather front waiting in the winds to come in, but it will bring outbreaks of rain gradually from the west. i of it, drier, brighter moments, and potentially warmer weather to go with it, highs of 23—24, th