Carol Burnett is alive and well and not starring in the latest Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress, the fractured fairy tale musical opening tonight that laid the foundation for the funny lady’s towering comic career way back in ’59.
Fortunately for Broadway audiences, the contemporary stage has its very own Princess Winnifred who is more than capable to doing the royal succession bit: Sutton Foster.
Foster, whose dazzled in The Music Man, The Drowsy Chaperone, Anything Goes and, well, on and on, is a savvy enough musical comedian to know not to mess with a good thing.
Her lovably vulgar Princess of the Swamp pays loving homage to Burnett – even folks who didn’t make it into the Broadway audience back during the Eisenhower Administration might have some fading memories of Burnett’s performance from those early ’60s TV specials.
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