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‘Once Upon A Mattress’ Broadway Review: Sutton Foster Storms The Castle And Takes No Prisoners
Deadline's review of the Broadway musical revival 'Once Upon A Mattress' starring Sutton Foster and Michael Urie.
A few of the tweaks are obvious newcomers – a funny joke about Brooklyn hipsters stands out – but Sherman-Palladino’s most significant gift to the show seems to be in the placing of Foster’s uncouth swampland princess on equal footing with the oversheltered-but-wising-up Prince Dauntless (a never better Urie). David Zinn’s set design leans heavy into the heraldic flags and banners that suggest we’re in the land of Medieval Storybook, as does Andrea Hood’s colorful costumes befitting the royals and courtiers and knights and wizards who scurry around on this side of not one but two filthy moats. Director Lear DeBessonet does her very best to keep the goings-on humming, but Mattress gives her so, so much less to work with than what she was got from Sondheim’s Into The Woods, another recent Encores!-to-Broadway project that was easily one of the most satisfying bits of alchemy to arise from the long history of that beloved City Centers endeavor.
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