Impossible, you say? But as the Fairy Godmother would say, impossible things are happening every day. And these days they are happening up in Oceanside where Tri City CYT is putting on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. It’s a show filled with comedy, romance, enchanting characters, equally enchanting music, gorgeous costumes and sets, not to mention a highly talented cast led by a young and creative director.

As Cinderella, the lovely voice of Briana Roecks is rich enough for royalty, but it’s her spark of personality that first attracts the Prince (featuring a fine performance by Kyle Hawk). They provide the romance, magic, and singing, but it’s the eccentric supporting characters that really drive the comedy. Much of that is kicked up between Cinderella’s two mean, obnoxious stepsisters who like to torment each other at least as much as they like to torment and push around Cinderella. Havilah Duff plays the utterly joyless Joy who, when not picking on her sister or Cinderella, enjoys a ladylike nibble on her toenails. Rebecca Downing is her incredibly and hysterically ditzy counterpart Portia.

Somehow the Prince fails to find either of them interesting during the ball, instead being dazzled by a Cinderella dressed to the nines made possible by perhaps the most unusual Fairy Godmother you’re ever likely to encounter. The amusing Kelley Downing is the rapping fairy who prefers to go by her much hipper alias “G-Mom.” Other good performances come from Evan Macy-Beckwith as the regally entertaining King with a great accent and slight beer belly, as well as Melissa Mitchell as his Queen and Liz Kovanic as the frustrated Stepmother.

Director Joey Minnich brings them all together with great style and with splashes of creativity interspersed throughout. These start from the moment you walk into the theatre with a great mix of Cinderella and magic-themed music playing and continue with such things as the Three Blind Mice and a glimpse at the mice and the pumpkin “after midnight” during which the pumpkin (Jason Perez) exclaims, “Did you see when I turned into that chariot!” -- just one of Joey’s clever filler scenes performed in front of the curtain while the crew makes set changes behind. Elsewhere, the shoe-fitting scene even spills into the audience in their desperate attempt to find the owner of the glass slipper, and we even get a visit from Dorothy who is slightly miffed when G-Mom accidentally presents Cinderella with ruby slippers instead of the glass ones. It all combines for a truly magical evening of fun and fairies and fantasy that I highly recommend.