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In this hilarious medieval send-up of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Princess and the Pea,“ the mute King Sextimus suffers from a curse that can only be reversed “when the mouse devours the hawk.” The evil and manipulative Queen Agravain stifles all attempts to marry off her doting son Prince Dauntless the Drab, and so the entire kingdom struggles under the edict “Throughout the land no one may wed, ‘til Dauntless shares his wedding bed.” Enter the brash and unrefined Princess Winnifred who eagerly swims the castle moat in order to wed Prince Dauntless. Her inevitable, cataclysmic confrontation with Agravain invariably brings the house down. Music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer. Book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer & Dean Fuller
Director: Lee MacDougall
Choreographer: Stephen Findlay
Musical Director: Stephen Woodjetts
Publication Date
2-15-2011
Production Year
2010/2011
Theatre Location
Macdonald-Heaslip Hall, Sheridan
Cast
Prologue
Minstrel: Andrew Morrisey
Prince: David Ball
Princess: Kirsten Comerford
Queen: Julianne Hobby
Wizard: Keenan Viau
Princess Number Twelve: Natalia Gracious
Lady Rowena: Jennifer Rooney
Lady Merrill: Christine Vandenberk
Prince Dauntless: Iain Stewart
Queen Aggravain: Katie Bromley
Lady Lucille: Malia Becker
Lady Larkin: Alessia Lupiano
Lady Helena: Emma Smit
Sir Studley: Brent Yorke
King Sextimus: Jordan Till
Jester: Kevin Morris
Sir Harry: David Hohl
Princess Winnifred: Kyla Musselman
Sir Harold: David Ball
Lady Beatrice: Kirsten Comerford
Sir Luce: Simon Gordon
Lady Mabelle: Tess Barao
Sliding Peter Jingle: Andres Sierra
The Nightingale of Samarkand: Brittany Robinson
Emily: Lena Wiklund
Wench: Jocelyn Regina
1st Knight: Colin Noel-Baldwin
2nd Knight: Sean Blakeley
3rd Knight: Michael Sousa
Footman: Matt Monopoli
Footman: Luke Witt
Lords and Ladies of the Court
David Alves, Mathieu Bellemare, Karina Bershteyn, Camille Eanga-Selenge, Natalia Gracious, Julianne Hobby, Brittany Robinson, Andres Sierra, Jess Vandenberg
Keywords
Once Upon a Mattress, Theatre Sheridan, musical theatre
Terms of Use
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Disciplines
Theatre and Performance Studies
Faculty
Faculty of Animation, Arts & Design
School
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
SOURCE Citation
Theatre Sheridan, "Once Upon a Mattress, February 15 – 26, 2011" (2011). Theatre Sheridan Productions. 28.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/faad_visu_uniq_theatre/28
Original Citation
MacDougall, L. (Director). (2011, February 15 – 26). Once upon a mattress. [Theatre Performance]. Oakville: Theatre Sheridan.