Track Listing

1. Overture
2. Many Moons Ago - Harry Snow
3. Opening for a Princess
4. In a Little While - Allen Case, Anne Jones
5. Shy - Joe Bova, Carol Burnett
6. Sensitivity - Robert Weil, Jane White
7. Swamps of Home - Carol Burnett
8. Normandy - Anne Jones, , Harry Snow
9. Spanish Panic - Jane White
10. Song of Love - Carol Burnett
11. Quiet
12. studio Dialgue
13. Happily Ever After - Carol Burnett
14. Man to Man Talk - Joe Bova, Matt Mattox
15. Very Soft Shoes
16. Yesterday I Loved You - Allen Case, Anne Jones
17. Nightingale Lullaby
18. Finale - Joe Bova, Jack Gilford, Matt Mattox

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27931 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 50 minutes

From Amazon.com
Based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Princess and the Pea, Once Upon a Mattress opened in May 1959 and was a solid success, if not a huge blockbuster. It did well enough, in any case, to warrant a 1997 revival starring Sarah Jessica Parker. The show was far from revolutionary, but it provided a really fun vehicle for a cast of top stage personalities, including black actress Jane White, who played Queen Aggravain (a part originally written for comedienne Nancy Walker) in whiteface. But of course, Once Upon a Mattress's heart and soul was Carol Burnett, who, in her Broadway debut created the part of Princess Winnifred and delivered two of Mary Rodgers's best songs, the hilarious "Shy" and the spunky "Happily Ever After," which sounds a bit like Jule Styne at his most rhythmic. Burnett's timing and performance remain as sharp as they were 40 years ago. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews

It was good...
I thought the soundtrack sounded really good when I first heard it even though I didn't love the songs all that much. Then I was involved with my highschool production of "Once Upon..." and I realized that we sounded better than the Broadway version most of the time. One of the reasons was that the Jester in our play was played by a girl. "Normandy" was my favorite song in out musical, yet it sounds terrible in this CD because it is just more pretty with a girls voice I guess. That is true for the other songs as well. It is ashame they won't make a CD with a girl Jester. The two girls in both casts that played Winnifred sounded just as good a Carol and it was the same with most other singers as well. Maybe it was due to the fact that it was live, and I will keep the CD because it is a good memory, but still I wish they would make a new soundtrack (besides the one with Sara Parker.

You can almost see them---
The wonderful music & lyrics, expertly performed by this talented and expressive cat, makes a soundtrack album so alive you can almost SEE them onstage! Unfortunately, the sound quality due to the recording capabilities of the time are less than perfect, but otherwise this is a fantastic collection of toe-tappers from one of the silliest, funniest examples of American Musical Theatre. No wonder Carol Burnett became a star!

AWESOME
I'm 16 years old, and you may say that i dont know what true music, and stuff like that, but i love music. i love the theatre. I've seen multiple shows on broadway, my favorite movie is grease. I love musicals, and all theatrical productions. I'm involved in my school Drama program, and we have quite a reputation for putting on great presentations. Recently we did the play Once Upon a Mattress. We did an awesome job, and i love the music, and you would think after all the rehersals we would all be sick of it...but we are all still singing it and still loving it. The music is great, and the show is awesome!