My gosh, the cast for this production! Carol Burnette, Ken Berry, Jack Gilford, Burnadette Peters, Jane White! It's out of this world! I wish this version wasn't so altered from the stage version, but it's still great to have a record of these performances.
that is so true! any one who may have been lucky enough like myself? to see the original off bdway show in 59.I have some pics for you if we ever meet on fb?
Bernadette Peters was Lady Larkin in Once Upon A Mattress, the stepmother in Cinderella with Brandy, and the witch in Into the Woods. She’s done a lot of fairy tale musicals.
I adore this!!!! I love carol Burnett The first part where carol was reading us a bedtime story made me so cozy. Lyle and carol stealing the show with Bernadette Peters.
I am so glad you found it . what I would like is?.... a copy of the original 1959 cast off bdway down town in the east village?there were union laws for all those yrs that did not permit any filming if shows so?... we are left with nothing! of the golden era history of bdway just?... some later changed around tv versions?most people can live with that? and feel glad to have experienced it? I am on fb if you ever wish to continue?
@@musimages23 A recording of the 1959 off-Broadway run would be amazing but I doubt any was ever made - back in those days recording technology was so primitive. A do have a Playbill from one of those performances at the Phoenix theater though!
My high school did this play back in 1994 and I played the mute King. Badly. Sadly, it turned me off of acting for life and rather soured my appreciation for 'Once Upon a Mattress,' which I forever thought of as lame an rather infantile, because the only way I had ever seen it performed was by a bunch of awkward teenagers. It's nice to see it performed by professional actors, though I still can't really take the thing seriously! Not that one is supposed to take a comedy seriously, but you know what I mean.
@@sistersisters26 It really is a funny play. Before I saw it on TV, my Mom and Aunt went out to the old Dean Goss Dinner Theater in Houston, Texas and saw Carol Burnett perform this live about a year prior to the TV version. Mom enjoyed it so much that she encouraged me to watch it on the television and I loved it too. I still have a photo of the two of them all dressed up and going out that night to see the play and have a steak dinner. Good memories! I am happy you like it too!
Why does the Minstrel get cut from TV/movie versions? Also, I miss not being greeted by “Opening for a Princess”! Also, “Many Moons Ago” is slightly different than the version we're doing, so is it just that the words changed?
