It's Christmas, and Angelina Mouseling (Finty Williams) is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza, Cinderella Mouse and the Ugly Whiskers. She is devastated when Penelope Pinkpaws (Jonell Elliott) is chosen to play Cinderella and she is cast as the Wicked Stepmouse. Taking Miss Lilly's (Dame Judi Dench's) advice to "think horrid" much too literally, Angelina storms off in a fit of a temper. Then a toboggan race goes wrong and it seems that the production will have to be cancelled. Realizing how selfish she has been, Angelina determines to sort things out, because as every aspiring star knows, "The Show Must Go On".
Acting
Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi doing Shakespearean mice. Unhinged.
Production
Tutus on mice. Someone got paid to design this.
Director
Kitty Taylor
Finty Williams
Angelina Mouseling / Mrs. Harriet Hodgepodge (voice)
Derek Jacobi
Mr. Operatski (voice)
Judi Dench
Miss Lilly (voice)
Jo Wyatt
Alice Nimbletoes / Priscilla Pinkpaws / Sammy / Henry (voice)
Keith Wickham
William Longtail / Mr. Maurice Mouseling (voice)
Jonell Elliott
Penelope Pinkpaws / Mrs. Mouseling / Mrs. Pinkpaws (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finty Williams is Judi Dench's actual daughter, making this a royal family affair of mouse voices.
Based on Katharine Holabird's books from 1983, this franchise somehow made ballet mice a global phenomenon before pink elephants were even a thing.
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