Once Upon a Mattress
Musical by Dean Fuller, Jay Thompson, and Marshall BarerWikipedia
21
MENTIONS
15
EPISODES
14
PODCASTS
Search complete. 21 mentions across 15 episodes found for "Once Upon a Mattress".
Sep 18, 2026
Charlie SchillPANELIST
Okay.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
On Friday of next week, the 25th, Once Upon a Mattress opens for four seasons at Skyview High School.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
That continues through the following weekend.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
On Friday, the 25th, also... and I can't remember the name of the show, Dead Man's Creek at the Pickleville Playhouse.
Vicki LawrenceGUEST
I was aware of her.
Vicki LawrenceGUEST
I saw her, um, I saw the, uh, TV version of Once Upon a Mattress that they did.
Billy CorganHOST
Yeah.
Vicki LawrenceGUEST
So I saw that.
Carol BurnettGUEST
And so I never thought that I would be a television person.
Carol BurnettGUEST
But once I did Mattress, which I loved, because eight shows a week of doing the same character.
Carol BurnettGUEST
But I did Carrie's show, we would do four or five different characters every week, and different songs, and different choreography.
Carol BurnettGUEST
I kind of love the idea of variety.
9 MINS LATER
Carol BurnettGUEST
Genius, genius.
Carol BurnettGUEST
We needed somebody who was asked, What does a network guy, what is his job? He's there to warn us when an iceberg is
Ben MankiewiczHOST
So, in the time we have left, because we can't get through this without saying her name, go back to the second night of you performing after great reviews from night one, and I guess probably the previous two, of Once Upon a Mattress.
Ben MankiewiczHOST
Night two, who's that?
Ramona Van VellerHOST
Not Lookingglass Land.
Ramona Van VellerHOST
What? Once Upon a Mattress.
Ramona Van VellerHOST
Cool.
Ramona Van VellerHOST
Bricks, what about you? I have done Sheriff Williams for Last Delusion.
Margo MikkelsonHOST
You're going for Winifred
Delano MendozaHOST
in Once Upon a Mattress.
Delano MendozaHOST
I love that we had the same thought.
Delano MendozaHOST
I know, right? Winifred, I did Once Upon a...
Jeffrey MolineGUEST
All I did is...
Jeffrey MolineGUEST
My songwriting mentors were such, they would look at Marshall Bearer, who wrote Once Upon a Mattress, many other musicals.
Jeffrey MolineGUEST
Hugh Martin, who worked with MGM, wrote a lot of Judy Garland's material in all of those movies.
Jeffrey MolineGUEST
How Can I Ignore the Boy Next Door, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, those type of songs.
Sarah FritzGUEST
You know, with the exception of an occasional choral piece in choirs when I was young, might have been, were written by women occasionally.
Sarah FritzGUEST
And we actually did do Once Upon a Mattress in high school, which was Mary Rogers.
Sarah FritzGUEST
Really? No one pointed out to me that how unusual we're doing a musical by a woman and how special is the music.
Sarah FritzGUEST
And I don't know, I have a lot of opinions about how I think women's music is different from men's in an essential way.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
early, early memory and one recent memory.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
One early memory, I remember when I was in middle school, our high school put on Once Upon a Mattress.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
And I remember seeing it and looking at the main character, the one who sings Can I Be Shy, the princess.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
And like, she was wearing Converse shoes.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
Cause she's like an unorthodox princess and she's special.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
And I was like, this is the coolest thing ever.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
Like Once Upon a Mattress is like the people performing are like Broadway.
Sabina Sethi UnniGUEST
And this is like sacred text.
Caroline SheenHOST
Which musical out there makes you laugh the most and which musical makes you cry the most?
Tony SheldonGUEST
The score that makes me laugh the most is Once Upon a Mattress.
Caroline SheenHOST
Oh, OK.
Caroline SheenHOST
I think that's a first mention, Klaxon, for this podcast.
Jason WilliamsHOST
Starts out slow and then everything.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
One of the things we've been kind of glossing over, but I'm really looking forward to it, is the upcoming production of Once Upon a Mattress by the Four Seasons Theatre Company out in Smithfield.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
You know, this is a musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, Princess and the Pea.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
And, you know, this is the musical that launched Carol Burnett's career.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
Phil Collins on September 22nd.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
Yeah.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
Once upon a mattress on September 25th, dead man's Creek on September 25th.
Charlie SchillPANELIST
Um,
5 more episodes mention Once Upon a Mattress.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.