Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Daniel Breaker, Will Chase, Ana Gasteyer and Nikki Renée Daniels will appear to perform a few selections from the Album and to sign CDs. The album’s official digital release was March 28, 2025, so come to the Museum of Broadway on April 22nd and be among the first to get your copies in person. The first 50 people to RSVP hwill be assured a seat and others will be added to the waitlist. They will contact you when a seat becomes available.
The New York City Center Encores! revival of Once Upon a Mattress, directed by Lear deBessonet, was recorded following the record-breaking run of the musical at the Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles last week.
The album is available on CD now. The recording includes the cast of the Hudson Theatre run, including two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster as Princess Winnifred, along with Michael Urie as Prince Dauntless, Nikki Renée Daniels as Lady Larken, David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent, Ana Gasteyer as Queen Aggravain, Will Chase as Sir Harry, Daniel Breaker as the Jester, and Brooks Ashmanskas as the Wizard. The ensemble includes Daniel Beeman, Wendi Bergamini, Taylor Marie Daniel, Cicily Daniels, Ben Davis, Sheldon Henry, Oyoyo Joi, Amanda LaMotte, Sarah Michele Lindsey, Michael Olaribigbe, Adam Roberts, Jeffrey Schecter, Darius Wright, and Richard Riaz Yoder.
The recording features orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin, who scored the work’s 1996 Broadway revival. Encores! Music Director Mary-Mitchell Campbell serves as Music Supervisor, with Annbritt duChateau as Music Director and Kimberlee Wertz as Music Coordinator. Music Contractor is Jill Del’Abate.
An uproarious update of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea,” Once Upon a Mattress sets an unapologetic free spirit loose in a repressed kingdom, where Winnifred the Woebegone charms, delights, and dances her way to the top… of a stack of mattresses. Full of gloriously catchy melodies like “Shy” and “In a Little While,” the musical first premiered in 1959, with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer.
