Once Upon a Mattress

TV Movie
1964
1h 30m

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The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.The musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.

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Trivia
The original Broadway production of "Once Upon A Mattress" opened at the Phoenix Theater (Eventually running at a total of five separate theaters!) on May 1, 1959, ran for 244 performances and was nominated for the 1960 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical. Carol Burnett, Joe Bova and Jack Gilford reprise their roles. Carol Burnett was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

Crazy credits
For the end credits, we see the castle help moving the mattresses around, and then the camera zooms in on one of them, and the names and credits are printed on the mattresses. The process is repeated throughout all the credits.

Connections
Featured in American Masters: Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character (2007)

Soundtracks
MANY MOONS AGO
Music by Mary Rodgers
Lyrics by Marshall Barer
Sung by the Chorus

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Origination of June 3, 1964 TV show on CBS

I taped the audio of the June 3, 1964 on CBS TV show of OUAM and just recently edited/processed it for CD.

This required a lot of extra careful "audio filtering" and "equalizing" because the audio transmission was less than ideal. But using the "Amadeus" software I think it came out just great and am ready to "burn" a few CD's for myself and some friends !

However, I am wondering where the show originated from, NYC or Hollywood ?

Does anybody have this info ?

Thanks, Jack