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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 .
The original production opened on May 11, 1959, at the off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre [1] (later a multi-plex cinema on the Lower East Side), transferred later that year to Broadway at the Alvin Theatre (the modern Neil Simon Theatre) and then to several other Broadway theaters, finally playing at the St. James Theatre, for a total run of 470 performances. [2]
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.
This month, two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster, who currently stars as Princess Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress, talks about the time she wiped out in Anything Goes and the moment her back gave ...
Made-for-TV movie: 1964 Once Upon a Mattress: Princess Winnifred [36] Made-for-TV movie 1964–1965 The Entertainers: Herself 7 episodes 1966–1967 The Lucy Show: Carol Bradford 4 episodes 1966 Password: Herself Celebrity guest star Carol + 2: Herself Variety/sketch comedy [37] [38] 1967 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Corporal Carol Barnes Episode ...
With a twist on the traditional princess story, Surfside Playhouse's "Once Upon a Mattress" shows that happily ever afters are anything but ordinary. Love, laughs and a search for a true princess ...
Sutton Lenore Foster (born March 18, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical twice, in 2002 for her role as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and in 2011 for her performance as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, a role which she reprised in 2021 for a production in London and for ...
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 ...