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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.
Year Album Peak chart positions Certifications Record label US [1]US R&B [1]CAN [3]UK [4]1975 The Best of the Stylistics: 41 13 40 1 BPI: Platinum [6]; Avco: 1976 The Best of the Stylistics Volume II
Sutton Foster stars in the Broadway revival of "Once Upon a Mattress." The musical — an update of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea” — returns to Broadway for the first ...
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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 ...
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.