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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. The play was written as a humorous adaptation of the 1835 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea".
2024 Encores! Once Upon a Mattress the Musical Lyrics
Act I
1. Overture 2. Many Moons Ago 3. An Opening For a Princess 4. In a Little While 5. In a Little While (reprise) 6. On a Stormy Night 7. Shy 8. The Minstrel, the Jester, and I 9. Sensitivity 10. The Swamps of Home 11. Normandy 12. Spanish Panic 13. Song of Love
Act II
1. Entr'acte 2. Quiet 3. Goodnight, Sweet Princess 4. Happily Ever After 5. Man to Man Talk 6. Very Soft Shoes 7. Yesterday I Loved You 8. Nightingale Lullaby 9. Finale
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