Once Upon a Mattress returned to Broadway for the first time in over 25 years, in a new production starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and Drama Desk Award winner and SAG Award nominee Michael Urie.
Check out premiere curtain calls photos below!
The production includes a new adaptation by Emmy Award winner Amy Sherman-Palladino (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Gilmore Girls”) and directed by Tony Award nominee and Drama League Award winner Lear deBessonet (“Into The Woods”).
Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (“Anything Goes,” “The Music Man”) leads the Broadway cast as Winnifred the Woebegone. Drama Desk Award winner and SAG Award nominee Michael Urie (“Spamalot,” HBO’s “Shrinking,” “Ugly Betty”) also stars in the Broadway revival, alongside two-time Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (“The Prom,” “Fame Becomes Me”) as the Wizard, Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker (“Passing Strange,” “Shrek”) as the Fool, Tony Award nominee Will Chase (“Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “Nashville”) as Sir Harry, Nikki Renée Daniels (“Company,” “Book of Mormon”) returns as Lady Larken, David Patrick Kelly (“Enemy of the People,” “The Warriors”) returns as King Sextimus and Ana Gasteyer (“Saturday Night Live,” “Wicked”) as Queen Aggravain.
A hilarious reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea, Once Upon a Mattress unleashes an unabashed free spirit in a repressed kingdom where Winnifred the Sorrowful charms, delights and dances her way to the top of a stack of mattresses. Filled with wonderfully catchy tunes like “Shy” and “In a Little While,” the musical premiered in 1959. Music is by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and a book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller and Marshall Barer.
Photo credit: Bruce Glikas
The cast of “Once Upon a Mattress”
The cast of “Once Upon a Mattress”
Brooks Ashmanskas
Will Chase
Nikki Renee Daniels
Daniel Breaker
David Patrick Kelly
Ana Gasteyer
Michael Urie
Michael Urie
Michael Urie
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster
Michael Urie and Sutton Foster
Brooks Ashmanskas, Daniel Breaker, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Urie, Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer, Will Chase and Nikki Renee Daniels
Brooks Ashmanskas, Daniel Breaker, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Urie, Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer, Will Chase, Nikki Renee Daniels and the cast of “Once Upon a Mattress”
Michael Urie and Sutton Foster
The cast of “Once Upon a Mattress”
Director Lear deBessonet
Choreographers Lorin Latarro, Michael Urie, Sutton Foster, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Ana Gasteyer
Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman Palladino
Sutton Foster, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Ana Gasteyer
Lear deBessonet and the company from “Once Upon a Mattress”
The cast, creative minds and company of “Once Upon a Mattress”
Sutton Foster
