Chelsey Atkins [1](born February 28th) is an American girl who grew up singing and acting. She made her screen debut in 2003 and appeared in the Hollywood film Hangman's Curse, directed by Rafal Zielinski. Later on, Chelsey got to open for a performance at the Pepsi Arena Albany, New York.

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Biography

Early Life

Chelsey Atkins was born in Washington [2] she has a younger brother, Tommy. Her father, Raymond, is Caucasian(lives in NY) and her mother, Won, was born in Korea[3] and is of Korean descent.[4] Starting at the age of twelve, Atkins performed in musical theatre as a singer,[5 ]and appeared in local productions of The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, among others. http://i11.tinypic.com/2qa0cj9.jpg<br /> Unsuccessfully, Chelsey has auditioned for the 2006 production of Return to Halloweentown
and the upcoming film Hairspray, with co-stars Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken, Allison Janney, exc.

Cinderella:

"Cinderella and the Glass Slipper" (book cover)The familiar plot revolves around a girl of a rich family deprived of her rightful station in the family and given the cruel nickname "Cinderella" by her horrible stepmother and step-sister. Her father is completely under the thumb of his second wife in these stories. However, in some versions, especially the popular Disney film, the father has died. Forced into a life of domestic servitude, hence the nickname, as she was forced to tend the fireplace, Cinderella accepts the help of an attendant spirit ("fairy godmother") who transforms her to attend a royal ball and attract the attention of the handsome prince. In some versions of the tale, there are three balls, although most modern versions only mention one. In the most familiar version of the story, told by Charles Perrault, Cinderella attends two balls.

Common western versions find Cinderella benefacted by a Fairy Godmother who turns a pumpkin into a coach, mice into a team of horses, lizards into footman, and a rat into a driver, before transforming Cinderella's clothing into a splendid gown and jewels, with fantastic slippers of some unusual material. In versions featuring a magical transformation, the magic all comes to an end at the final stroke of midnight. In the three-ball version, Cinderella keeps a close watch on the time the first two nights and is able to leave without difficulty. However, on the third (or only) night, she loses track of the time and must flee the castle before her disguise vanishes. In her haste, she loses a glass slipper which the prince finds. He declares that he will marry only the girl whose petite foot fits into the slipper.

Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters (in some versions just the stepsisters) conspire to win the prince's hand for one of them.

In the German telling of the story, popularized by the Brothers Grimm, a number of changes are present. Cinderella's attendant spirits are birds in a hazel tree, growing beside the road, over her mother's grave. Cinderella or Aschenputtel often asks the birds for aid. When she wishes to attend the three night ball at the palace, birds bring her a gown and slippers, which increase in cost and materials until the final evening, when the shoes are golden. Cinderella enjoys each evening with the Prince, but slips away when she is tired, hiding on her father's estate in a tree, and then the pigeon coop, to elude her pursuers. The third evening, Cinderella loses a golden slipper either on the staircase by tripping, or it sticks in a trap left her by the prince, pitch or tar. In a variation, the road has been tarred and her shoe sticks fast. The prince conducts a search, allowing the maidens of the land to try on the slipper in the privacy of their own bedchambers. The first stepsister fits into the slipper (usually made of gold) by cutting off a toe, but the doves in the hazel tree tell the prince to notice the blood dripping from the slipper, and he returns the false bride to her mother. The second stepsister fits into the slipper by cutting off her heel, but the same doves give her away. In all variants, Cinderella arrives and proves her identity by fitting into the slipper (in some cases she has kept the other, as in the Disney retelling). The evil stepsisters are sometimes punished for their deception by having their eyes pecked out by birds, or in other cases forgiven, and made ladies-in-waiting with marriages to lesser lords.

The German retelling is not the only version where no fairy godmother is present. The midnight curfew is also absent in many versions; Cinderella leaves the ball to get home before her stepmother and stepsisters, or she is simply tired. Similar tales are also present, where a noblewoman must pose as a peasant, in order to win the prince such as in Kari Woodengown.


[edit] Variants (information from on the plot is from Wikipedia)




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