There have been times, I’ll admit, that I have felt overwhelmed by Sutton Foster. While it’s indisputable that the two-time Tony Award winner is lavishly talented as a singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne, her effusiveness — think Mary Tyler Moore meets the Energizer Bunny — has struck me as a bit much in certain productions, such as a 2022 revival of “The Music Man,” in which she was miscast as the prim, repressed librarian Marian Paroo.

Happily, Ms. Foster’s newest Broadway role not only encourages but demands an over-the-top quality. Princess Winnifred, the boisterous, brawny, moat-swimming heroine of “Once Upon A Mattress,” is nothing if not overwhelming, and the part also accommodates the sly wit that has made Ms. Foster a successor to Moore as much as her million-dollar smile.