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Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway .
He had his greatest Broadway success came in 1959 with Once Upon a Mattress, for which he was lyricist and a book writer. In 1972 he wrote 7 songs for Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers , a low-budget movie starring Holly Woodlawn.
She began writing music at the age of 16 and her professional career began with writing songs for Little Golden Records, which were albums for children with three-minute songs. [2] One of these recordings, " Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves ", which was released in 1957, featured performances by Bing Crosby of songs Mary Rodgers wrote with lyricist ...
To call Sutton Foster’s performance in “Once Upon a Mattress” physical would be a gross understatement. Rarely have feet played such a prominent role in the history of musical comedy.
Close to the climax of “Once Upon a Mattress,” now revived on Broadway for the second time, Princess Winnifred (Sutton Foster) has reached the end of her rope. After the frustrations of the ...
The actor was joined by Carol Burnett at the show in Los Angeles on Saturday, Jan. 4
The album has been reissued by various record companies sometimes in a different edited form. The song "I Love You Whoever You Are" was issued as a single by Kapp Records (KAPP195) in October 1957. [1] The album was included on a CD titled “Once upon a Mattress” issued by Sepia Records in 2010. [2]
Don't sleep on this charming retelling of "The Princess and the Pea" playing at the Hudson Theatre for a limited time.