In 1993 there was a production of Cinderella at the UCLA Freud Theatre, starring Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Fairy Godmother. The production received mixed reviews. This production was a typically British  production with writer-director Nigel Miles-Thomas taking the perennial panto story of Cinderella  and her Prince Charming and spiced it up with a cast of characters that includes a pair of juggling, wisecracking nasty stepsisters called Thelma and Louise. There was an attempt to Americanize the humour, but it was more distracting than amusing and did not seem to work. Songs by Harry Warren, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others were sprinkled throughout. As the Fairy Godmother, Gabor was the only miked actor onstage and she managed to fluff nearly every line except the jokes that referred winkingly to her own run-ins with the law. One such quip alluded to the 1990 incident in which the actress slapped a Beverly Hills police officer, and a couple were nods to Gabor's protracted civil court battle with actress Elke Sommer, who sued her for defamation and won a $3.3-million judgment against Gabor.

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Lythgoe Family Productions has produced pantomimes each winter since 2010 in California. Their first production was Cinderella in North Hollywood, starring Jerry Mathers and Freddie Stroma. This was followed in 2011 by A Snow White Christmas, starring Marina Sirtis as The Wicked Queen and Neil Patrick Harris as The Magic Mirror,and A Cinderella Christmas, starring Fred Willard as Baron Hardup, Cinderella's father. In 2012, the company mounted A Snow White Christmas at the Pasadena Playhouse, starring Ariana Grande as Snow White, Charlene Tilton as The Wicked Queen and Neil Patrick Harris again as The Magic Mirror.