In a Role Sutton Foster Was Born To Play, the Broadway Star Carries the New ‘Once Upon A Mattress’
The original Broadway production of this witty and charming takeoff on Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Princess and the Pea’ opened in 1959, starring Carol Burnett. The new concert production is high-spirited and frequently hilarious.
When your father is the greatest composer in the history of musical theater, charting your own course in that field can take some pluck. Richard Rodgers’s elder daughter, who was also an author and screenwriter, had that quality in spades, as is known by anyone who’s read “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers.”
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