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30 unusual facts about Sleeping Beauty


Ann Downer

“Somnus’s Fair Maid” (short-listed for the James Tiptree Jr. prize), a Regency retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, in Black Thorn, White Rose, edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow

Armen Poghosyan

В 2000–2008 became a music leader at the "Pythagoras" studios for the duplication of Russian language full-length musical films and cartoons such as Mary Poppins, Sleeping Beauty, Corpse Bride, Hannah Montana, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Shrek.

Beilstein, Rhineland-Palatinate

Always opening and closing the series of events is a traditional version of the Brothers Grimm’s “Sleeping Beauty”, in keeping with one of the village’s nicknames.

Briar Rose

A version of Sleeping Beauty written by the Brothers Grimm, and the name of the princess in it

Castle Waiting

The series brings together characters from several classic fairy tales, such as Simple Simon and Iron Henry, as well as referencing several others such as Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty.

The story begins with a stand-alone, prologue tale, Castle Waiting: The Curse of Brambly Hedge, which retells the story of Sleeping Beauty mostly from the perspective of those at the periphery of the action.

Don't Waste Your Time

The video itself features Clarkson with long, dark hair asleep on a large gothic bed covered in vines, as if to be a darker version of Sleeping Beauty, waiting for a prince to awaken her with a kiss.

DysEnchanted

DysEnchanted is a short subject about seven storybook characters: Cinderella, Snow White, Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Alice In Wonderland, Dorothy and Little Red Riding Hood.

Elaine C. Smith

For many years she was a regular in pantomime at the Kings' Theatre, Glasgow, starring alongside Gerard Kelly in performances such as Aladdin, Mother Goose and Sleeping Beauty.

During Christmas 2009, Smith played Fairy Godmother in the pantomime Cinderella in Aberdeen and returned there over Christmas 2010 to play the Evil Queen Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty.

Elizabeth Triegaardt

She received the Nederburg Prize for her contribution to ballet and her role as the Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty.

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty

The plot centres on Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, who loses the plotline as she tells her own version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter.

Ivan Vsevolozhsky

Though unknown to most people, even those in the arts, it was he who brought about the very existence of such world-famous ballets as The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky/Petipa) and The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky/Ivanov).

In 1889, he duly instructed the Imperial Balletmaster Marius Petipa to choreograph a full-length ballet to the story La Belle au Bois Dormant, or The Sleeping Beauty for a premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Karen Dunbar

Over Christmas 2007, Dunbar made her first appearance in pantomime, at the King's Theatre in Glasgow, playing Nanny Begood in Sleeping Beauty.

Katrina Bryan

Sleeping Beauty - (November 2012 - January 2013) - Evolution Productions - The Marlowe Theatre,Canterbury - The Good Fairy

Sleeping Beauty -(Nov 2001/ Jan 2002) - Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh - Princess Luminessa

Kelly Stables

Her two largest roles were in the Thousand Oaks Civic Light Opera's Peter Pan as Wendy, and in Sleeping Beauty as the title character.

Louisville Ballet

The Ballet also presents several full length ballets each year including Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Giselle and Don Quixote.

Nicole Delien

Delien, often referred to in the media as "The real life Sleeping Beauty", is a United States Pennsylvania resident that was diagnosed with Kleine–Levin Syndrome (KLS) when she was six-and-a-half years old.

Pygmalion and the Image series

This was not Burne-Jones' only series of pictures: others include The Briar Rose series (1885–1890), which was based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty (as retold by the Brothers Grimm), and Burne-Jones' spectacular Cupid and Psyche frieze.

Sergio Basañez

Basañez has also performed in children’s plays, such as: Pedro el Lobo, and La Bella Durmiente.

Sleeping Beauties

A mother tells her daughter a real life fairy tale of a "Princess Charming" and her Sleeping Beauty.

Sleeping Beauty

In the ABC TV show Once Upon a Time, Sleeping Beauty (named Aurora after the Disney version) is portrayed by Sarah Bolger, and Prince Phillip is played by Julian Morris.

Maleficent (Kristin Bauer van Straten) appears in a different context, but it is mentioned that she is the one who cursed Aurora and that she once cursed Aurora's mother in the same manner.

In 2008, the American musical trio GrooveLily released Sleeping Beauty Wakes, a concept modern-day album, loosely based on the fairy tale.

Sleeping Beauty problem

Sleeping Beauty volunteers to undergo the following experiment and is told all of the following details: On Sunday she will be put to sleep.

The Magic Riddle

The film tells the story of Cindy, an orphan who lives as an indentured servant to her cruel stepmother, and features elements of famous fairytales including Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio.

The Tiger and the Snow

The story, inspired by the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," features singer-songwriter Tom Waits as himself in recurring dream sequences, and a surprise ending.

Trisha Ward

In 2005, Ward composed the music, lyrics and book for a stage production/adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.


Chiquititas: Rincón de luz

She finds the secret cave, where a wise man offers her to choose the destiny of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Rapunzel, but Belén decides to write her own story, not knowing how it will finish.

Clair Weeks

After his work on Bambi, Weeks got to work very closely with animator Marc Davis on Cinderella (1950) and Peter Pan (1953), and Sleeping Beauty (1959).

Clyde Geronimi

He was one of the directors on Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Eleanor Audley

In the animated film industry she was best known for giving her distinctive, powerful voice to the evil stepmother with gray hair, Lady Tremaine, in the Disney animated film Cinderella, and the evil fairy Maleficent in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

Julia Goldani Telles

She appeared in numerous ballet performances including Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, Don Quixote and Swan Lake.

King's Theatre Pantomime

After Kelly's death in 2010, Karen Dunbar has taken on the lead comic role: Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Widow Twankey in Aladdin and The Nanny in Sleeping Beauty

Märchenbrunnen

The fountain is decorated in well—known fairy tale characters, such as the Brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Red Hat, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and medieval legends such as the Ryubetsal.

Roberto Bolle

Since then he has starred in many ballets including Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Notre-Dame de Paris, and In the middle somewhat elevated.

Share A Dream Come True Parade

Other villains surrounding the float include Jafar from Aladdin, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians and Ursula from The Little Mermaid.

Smoke on the Daughter

On the night of Lisa's ballet recital, which is Sleeping Beauty, the raccoon breaks into the changing room and steals all the cigarettes.