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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.
Once Upon a Mattress is a 2005 made-for-television musical comedy film directed by Kathleen Marshall. The teleplay by Janet Brownell is based on the 1959 musical of the same name , which in turn was based on the 1835 fairytale The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen .
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.
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Jackman, 56, was spotted attending Foster’s play Once Upon a Mattress at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 4. He was joined in the audience by Carol Burnett — who played Foster ...
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 ...
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