Once Upon a Mattress 1996 Broadway — Video Coverage: Performances, Clips & Behind the Scenes

Video: Michael Urie Reflects on His Fairytale Broadway Season

by Chloe Rabinowitz • Apr 23, 2025

Watch as BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge discusses the journey of Once Upon a Mattress with one of the production's stars, Michael Urie! Urie discusses his co-star Sutton Foster and more.

Video: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS Cast Celebrates Opening Night

by Joey Mervis • Aug 14, 2024

It was an opening for a princess Monday night at the Hudson Theatre. The best of the theatre community came out to celebrate the official arrival of Once Upon a Mattress. Watch as we take you inside the big night in this video!

VIDEO: On This Day, December 19 - Sarah Jessica Parker Returns to Broadway in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

by A.A. Cristi • Dec 19, 2018

On this day in 1996, film and television star, Sarah Jessica Parker made her big Broadway return as Princess Winnifed in a revival of the fractured fairytale Once Upon a Mattress!

VIDEO: New Publisher Sarah Jessica Parker Introduces Her First Novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza on TODAY

by Macon Prickett • Jun 13, 2018

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is now a publisher, and joins TODAY along with the author of her imprint's first novel: Fatima Farheen Mirza, whose book “A Place for Us” is the story of a traditional Indian-American family in California torn between traditional and modern values. Parker calls Mirza “a new American voice.” Watch the clip below!

VIDEO: Former ANNIE Star Sarah Jessica Parker Sings Sweet Rendition of 'Maybe'!

by Caryn Robbins • Oct 14, 2016

Sarah Jessica Parker stopped by 'Popcorn With Peter Travers' to talk about her new HBO series 'Divorce' and treated fans to a sweet rendition of 'Maybe' from the Broadway musical ANNIE.

VIDEO: Would Sarah Jessica Parker Do Another Broadway Musical? Find Out!

by Caryn Robbins • Oct 7, 2016

Sarah Jessica Parker stopped by last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Bravo and revealed that she would love to do another Broadway musical.

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 12/19- ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

by Nicole Rosky • Dec 19, 2012

Today in 1996, the first Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress opened at the Broadhurst Theatre, where it ran for188 performances. Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. The play was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. Once Upon a Mattress marked the Broadway debut of later stage and TV legend Carol Burnett, who originated the role of Princess Winnifred.

STAGE TUBE: TODAY SHOW Travels to Florida's Costume World!

by Nicole Rosky • Mar 22, 2012

'The Today Show' just featured a special segment in which correspondents Jenna Bush Hager and Sara Haines visited Costume World of Pompano Beach, Florida. While they were there, they checked out the hundreds of thousands of old Broadway costumes that have found a home there. Click below to check out the video!

MasterCard Presents: Broadway Beat's Priceless Moments #18 - Sarah Jessica Parker

by Broadway Beat Priceless Moments • Mar 11, 2008

Before the world fell in love with Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City on TV, she was a theatre baby. She starred as Annie and co starred opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, in How to Succeed in Business... She also headlined as Princess Winnifred in the 1996 Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress. We take you back to 1996 when she spoke of how she first caught the theatre bug!