If you believe that love conquers all or that good will always triumph over evil, then the Disney Musical, Sleepy Beauty will soon become one of your most favorite performances. The musical adaptation of Once Upon a Dream has become one of Disney’s many magical and breathtaking performances.
Sleeping Beauty is a fairy tale for the ages and tells the story of a king and queen who have a young daughter, Aurora, who is cursed by an evil fairy for 100 years. Let’s explore the themes, storyline and backdrops for this magical performance that will have your audiences reliving their childhood right along with the story.
The Life of Sleeping Beauty
The story of Sleeping Beauty is one that most audience members have read or at least heard of during their childhood. The story chronicles the lives of a king and queen and their beautiful daughter Aurora. During Aurora’s christening the woodland fairies were invited to give a blessing to the baby. Each fairy attended and blessed the child except for one evil fairy who felt slighted by the royal couple. In response, she cast a spell that the child would vanish forever upon pricking her finger on a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
Distraught and fearful of their daughter’s tragic fate, the king and queen send their baby off to live with fairies who promise to protect her. They also ban all spinning wheels from the kingdom. A friendly fairy casts an alternative spell that softens the evil fairy’s spell and will allow the child to sleep for 100 years until she is kissed by a prince.
While living with the fairies, Aurora becomes friends with the woodland creatures and lives a happy and innocent life. She eventually falls for a prince who is lured away by the evil fairy so he can not awaken her with his kiss on her 16th birthday when she will inevitably fall into a deep sleep for 100 years.
The classic tale incorporates many themes including the concept that love conquers all, good versus evil, and that family is an important source of strength and support.
Backdrops for Sleeping Beauty
Backdrops for Sleeping Beauty should incorporate both scenes of the world of fairies and magic as well as a classic French village from the medieval era of the 14th Century. Here are some of our favorites.
This European Village Backdrop #2360 depicts a quaint Tudor-style village with buildings in the center of a town and distant mountains.
This Palace Interior Backdrop #2358 is the perfect backdrop for Princess Aurora’s parents’ royal home. It shows an ornate palace interior with gold chandeliers and purple draperies.
This Castle in the Clouds Backdrop #2485 is a wonderful way to portray the landscape between the fairy world and the human world in Sleeping Beauty. The backdrop shows a winding road leading from a wooded area to a castle in the distance.
To show the woodland area where the fairies live, this Forest Backdrop #2587 would be perfect! It shows a dense forest where the sun is shining on the green leaves and mossy ground.
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