On Tuesday night, Keke Palmer will slip into a pair of glass slippers and make her Broadway debut on Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella as the title role. Before she hits the stage with Sherri Shepherd (as Palmer's character's evil stepmother,Madame) on opening night, we stopped by the Tricone Costumes studio last week to see how the 21-year-old actress-singer transforms into the famous princess with Tony award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long.
When Palmer first heard that she landed her role, she was "shocked," but it made her realize that "if you really try and put your best foot forward, things really can happen, so it was a kind of like a moment of what I believe was truly right."
Since prepping and rehearsing for her first theater production, the Masters of Sex star tells Pret-a-Reporter that she's learned to become much more discipline in her career and personal life. "It forces you to push yourself in ways you never knew you could be pushed. The repetition — just searching and learning, getting in the groove of things and making yourself to just keep going," she says.
For Palmer, she hopes the audience walks away after watching the show with the sense that "everything is possible." Seeing that she will be the first African-American actress to portray Cinderella on Broadway, she's proving that it is, indeed.
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