‘Once Upon a Mattress’ Review: Sutton Foster as a Perfectly Goofy Princess

The New York Times-Arts·2024-01-26 17:01

Some casting choices are blindingly obvious. That does not make them lazy; it makes them right.

Such is the case with Sutton Foster as the eccentric Princess Winnifred in the Encores! revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” which opened Wednesday at City Center. The central role in this broadly goofy musical was exuberantly, indelibly originated by Carol Burnett in 1959.

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