Once Upon a Mattress 2024 Broadway Cast Album Cast Signing

Press release

HEAR YE, HEAR YE
COME ONE COME ALL
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS 2024 BROADWAY CAST ALBUM
CAST SIGNING AND PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2025 AT 4:30PM
THE MUSEUM OF BROADWAY
145 West 45th St
THE FIRST 50 GUESTS WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE PERFORMANCE/Q&A AT THE MUSEUM OF BROADWAY
ALL GUESTS WHO PURCHASE CDS ON-SITE MAY HAVE THEM SIGNED FOLLOWING THE PERFORMANCE

New York - Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Daniel Breaker, Will Chase, Ana Gasteyer and Nikki Renée Daniels will appear to perform a few selections from the Album and to sign CDs.

The album’s official digital release was March 28, 2025, so come to the Museum of Broadway on April 22nd and be among the first to get your copies in person. The first 50 people to RSVP here will be assured a seat and others will be added to the waitlist. We will contact you when a seat becomes available. RSVP here: https://events.humanitix.com/once-upon-a-mattress-cast-album-release-performance-and-signing

The New York City Center Encores! revival of Once Upon a Mattress, directed by Lear deBessonet, was recorded following the record-breaking run of the musical at the Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles last week. The album will be released by Center Stage Records and Shout! Broadway and is produced by Emmy Award-winner Amy Sherman-Palladino, Tony Award-winner Adam Guettel, Emmy and 4-time Grammy Award-winner Lawrence Manchester, Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Jenny Gersten, and executive produced by Van Dean for Center Stage Records and Douglas Denoff for Shout! Broadway.
The album is available on CD now at www.centerstagerecords.com and on Amazon.com, and digitally on all platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon.
The recording includes the cast of the Hudson Theatre run, including two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster as Princess Winnifred, along with Michael Urie as Prince Dauntless, Nikki Renée Daniels as Lady Larken, David Patrick Kelly as King Sextimus the Silent, Ana Gasteyer as Queen Aggravain, Will Chase as Sir Harry, Daniel Breaker as the Jester, and Brooks Ashmanskas as the Wizard. The ensemble includes Daniel Beeman, Wendi Bergamini, Taylor Marie Daniel, Cicily Daniels, Ben Davis, Sheldon Henry, Oyoyo Joi, Amanda LaMotte, Sarah Michele Lindsey, Michael Olaribigbe, Adam Roberts, Jeffrey Schecter, Darius Wright, and Richard Riaz Yoder.
The recording features orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin, who scored the work's 1996 Broadway revival. Encores! Music Director Mary-Mitchell Campbell serves as Music Supervisor, with Annbritt duChateau as Music Director and Kimberlee Wertz as Music Coordinator. Music Contractor is Jill Del'Abate.

An uproarious update of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea,” Once Upon a Mattress sets an unapologetic free spirit loose in a repressed kingdom, where Winnifred the Woebegone charms, delights, and dances her way to the top… of a stack of mattresses. Full of gloriously catchy melodies like “Shy” and “In a Little While,” the musical first premiered in 1959, with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer.

Declared a “Critic’s Pick” twice by The New York Times which also raved, “Sutton Foster makes a banquet of the material... her glee in taking possession of the stage creates an all-encompassing manic energy that both the audience and her scene partners feed off.” New York Magazine wrote that Foster’s “escalating feats of strength, flexibility, and musicality, are sure to get the heart pumping and the crowd laughing. Let these weirdos rule the kingdom!”

“This stellar production of Once Upon a Mattress came to Center Theatre Group direct from Broadway and just wrapped up the highest grossing 4-week engagement in the history of the Ahmanson Theatre,” said CTG Producing Director, Douglas C. Baker. “We are thrilled that this incredible company, led by the incomparable Sutton Foster, will receive a cast recording so that it may continue to be enjoyed by generations to come."

The musical, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1959, launched the career of Carol Burnett, who starred in the work's original Off-Broadway and Broadway bows along with a string of live TV productions. The musical has since become a favorite at high schools and theatre groups around the world. This revival featured a book adaptation penned by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls).