Cinderella.

There's a lot of nostalgia attendant on the new film production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, to be televised November 2 on ABC. It is an updated version of a musical first broadcast live, starring Julie Andrews, in 1957. It will air under the banner of The Wonderful World of Disney, itself a staple of 1950s TV. And the palace of Prince Charming was created on Stage 26 at Sony Studios, formerly the home of MGM--the same stage where Dorothy first met up with the Scarecrow and Tin Man on the Yellow Brick Road.

"We had quite the heritage behind us," says Randy Ser, production designer of the $12 million straw, which stars Brandy as Cinderella, Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother, …