| “ | Florinda: Hurry up and do my hair, Cinderella, are you really wearing that? Lucinda: Here I found a little tear, Cinderella, can't you hide it with a hat? |
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| ~ Cinderella lamenting her enslavement whilst foreshadowing the stepsister's blinding and detailing their abuse of her. |
Lucinda and Florinda are supporting antagonist in the 1987 Broadway musical and 2016 Disney film adaptation Into the Woods.
They are the evil stepsisters of Cinderella, and the daughters of the Cinderella's Stepmother.
In the 1987 production, Lucinda was portrayed by Lauren Mitchell and Florinda was portrayed by Kay McLelland. In the 1988 U.S. Tour, Lucinda was portrayed by Danette Cuming, and Florinda was portrayed by Susan Gordon Clark. In the 1990 West End production, Lucinda was portrayed by Lisa Savody and Florinda by Elizabeth Brice. In the 1993 Australia Premiere, Lucinda was portrayed by Amanda Naughton, and Florinda by Tracy Nicole Chapman. In the 2002 Broadway revival, Lucinda was portrayed by Lara Pulver, who also portrayed Irene Adler in Sherlock, Tetra Gilcrest in the English dub of The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Semira in Underworld: Blood Wars and Isabella Thornton in Robin Hood, while Florinda was portrayed by Louise Bowden. In the 2010 West End revival, Lucinda was portrayed by Amy Griffiths, whilst Florinda was portrayed by Amy Ellen Richardson. In the 2016 adaptation, Lucinda was portrayed by Lucy Punch, who also portrayed Amanda Hughes in Motherland and Amandaland, Verity Thwaites in St. Trinian's and Esmé Squalor in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Florinda was portrayed by Tammy Blanchard, who also portaryed Eden in The Invitation, Adele Bensimon in Bull and Jessica Parker in The Wrong Son.
Physical appearances[]
The sisters are seen wearing regency-style gold and black ballgowns. They have styled hair, with Florinda's being curly and Lucinda's being straight. Lucinda has a hooked nose, whilst Florinda has wide eyes. After they try on the golden slippers, Lucinda loses a toe, and Florinda loses part of her heel. When they are blinded, they carry walking sticks and wear dark sunglasses.
Personalities[]
The pair are cruel and tend to bounce off each other. They physically abuse Cinderella and mock her callously at the instruction and support of their mother, Cinderella's stepmother. It is clear they are desperate to be married.
Biography[]
Background[]
The sisters are the daughters of Cinderella's Stepmother, who is married to Cinderella's widowed father. After the death of Cinderella's father, the stepmother and her daughters enslave Cinderella as their servant, forcing her to clean and tidy the house and aid their vanity.
Into the Woods[]
The sisters are seen forcing Cinderella to clean when she wishes to attend the King's Festival. They then force her to do their hair whilst they get ready. The family then leave Cinderella at home and make their way to the festival, and laugh after they splash Jack's mother with mud from their carriage.
When returning one evening from the festival, they are approached by the Baker, who tries to compare their hair to an ear of corn which must be that sort of yellow. Horrified at his peasantry, they beat him away. After Cinderella secretly attends the ball and leaves a pure slipper on the steps to his palace, he conducts a kingdom-wide search to find the owner of the shoe. When he arrives at Cinderella's home, the sisters try to force their feet into the slippers. Resolute on one of them marrying the Prince, their stepmother mutilates parts of their feet to force the shoe to fit, but both are revealed to have cheated and are unsuccessful. After the Prince learns Cinderella is his true bride, the stepsisters and stepmother bow to her and are then blinded by birds for their cruelty.
In their blindness, the stepsisters attend Cinderella's wedding, and are caught in the woods after The Giant attacks. The stepsisters leave and follow their mother, who refuses to fight the giant.
