Does anyone mug better than Sutton Foster? In Once Upon a Mattress, she sings and dances just as well in a role first made famous by Carol Burnett in 1959. I can't say two hours of over-the-top silliness is really my thing, but the superbly cast production more than compensates for the belabored adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ("The Princess and the Pea") and a middling score by Mary Rodgers, daughter of Richard. Michael Urie has never been more charming and Will Chase almost takes the sting out of missing Cheyenne Jackson in the original Encores production last winter.
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