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Once Upon a Mattress
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 8, 2004
Closed Jan 2, 2005

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

42nd Street Moon, San Francisco's only theatre company dedicated to presenting "lost musicals," presents special guest star Lea DeLaria (Broadway's On the Town and The Rocky Horror Show; The Vagina Monologues; and the national tour of Chicago) in Once Upon a Mattress. In this classic Broadway retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess and the Pea, DeLaria brings her own musical comedy panache to the role of Princess Winifred the Woebegone, a role originated by Carol Burnett. With the whole kingdom rooting for her, "Fred" must swim moats, endure all-night dance-a-thons, and feel a pea through 20 mattresses in order to impress the highly discriminating Queen and win the hand of her Prince Dauntless.

Nominated for Tony Awards for Best Musical in 1960 and Best Revival of a Musical in 1997, this musical delight features the Mary Rodgers/ Marshall Barer songs "Shy," "Happily Ever After," "Many Moons Ago," "In a Little While," and "Yesterday I Loved You."

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Eureka Theatre
215 Jackson St
San Francisco, CA 94111


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

I approached the 42nd Street Moon company's staged concert presentation of Once Upon a Mattress with trepidation, knowing that I was to see Lea DeLaria in the star role of Princess Winnifred the Woebegone. Over the past several years, DeLaria has proven herself to be a wildly inconsistent theater performer: Utterly delightful as Hildy in the Public Theater production of On the Town at the Delacorte in Central Park, she was less delighful when that production finally made it to Broadway. She subsequently floundered when miscast in male roles in the Encores! presentation of L'il Abner and the otherwise excellent 2001 production of The Rocky Horror Show at Circle in the Square, even while doing[...]


Reviewed by Michael Portantiere on Dec 21, 2004

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