she was also in "klute" as the madam. she was married to Alfredo the chef she also had an antique lamp store on 6th and 13th in the village . she was a tremendous actress
Yes. In Mary Rodgers' memoir she mentions that Jane White was great on the stage audition but George Abbot didn't want an Negro in a show about medieval times. The creators sent Jane to this magical make-up artist to make her look "more white." Humiliating, no doubt, esp in modern eyes, but she got the part and owned it.
The first television adaptation of this musical aired June 3, 1964 on CBS. The production was videotaped in black and white in front of a live audience and featured Carol Burnett as Princess Winnifred, Joseph Bova as Prince Dauntless, Jack Gilford as King Sextimus the Silent, and Jane White as the Queen, from the original Broadway cast. New principals Bill Hayes, well known as Doug on Days of Our Lives, as the Minstrel, Shani Wallis, known to many as Nancy in the 1967 movie Oliver!, as Lady Larken, and Elliott Gould (in his first appearance on any screen) as the Jester were added to the cast. Once Upon a Mattress (1964) Songs Used: Shy (first number sung in this production) Normandy (sung by the Minstrel and Lady Larken) Sensitivity The Swamps of Home The Spanish Panic (with a different melody) Song of Love Quiet (Act 2 begins at 41:23) Daddy’s Soft Shoes Man to Man Talk Nightingale Lullaby Finale (A princess is a delicate thing…) Songs Not Used: Many Moons Ago We Have an Opening for a Princess In a Little While The Minstrel, the Jester, and I Happily Ever After Yesterday I Loved You Due to the reduced running time of 90 minutes, several songs, characters, and scenes were either cut or shortened. Some differences between the 1959 stage version and this 1964 version are: There is no Sir Harry. The character of Sir Harry, who made Lady Larken pregnant, from the stage version has been omitted and replaced by the Minstrel as Lady Larken's love interest. The pregnancy conflict concerning Sir Harry and Lady Larken from the original stage play was downplayed to the two lovers having been secretly married against the laws of the kingdom in this television version. The Minstrel is fired for mocking the Queen in song. The Minstrel is to be beheaded since he attempted to take Lady Larken out of the kingdom. The King discovers the plot of the pea while in the stage version it is the Minstrel who does. The Queen uses only the revolving mirror and the warm milk with opium. She doesn’t use the incense, so there are only two ladies in waiting.
Thank you for that very thorough information. It's so wonderful that this was filmed - Burnett is one of the greatest entertainers. I do understand the challenge of time - songs inevitably must be cut for tv, as most musicals run 2-2.5 hours and tv, especially all those years ago, wanted to keep it at 90 minutes. But, cutting Winnifred's second act showstopper, Happily Ever After" is not acceptable! It's like -- cut the Jester's soft shoes song. Oh well, glass more than half full. THANKS SO MUCH TO THE PERSON WHO POSTED. here's the original cast album recording of "Happily Ever After" (it was included in the 1972 taping of MATTRESS, again starring Burnett): ruclips.net/video/S7q_wgLa2AQ/видео.html
Daddy's Soft Shoes is a pleasant song, but I agree that it is a song that easily could have been cut to have Happily Ever After used. Thank you for the compliment on my post. I was happy to post it for others. I have been in four communtity theater productions of it: twice as ensemble and twice as King Sextimus the Silent, so I have a good knowledge of the original script.
Which is exactly why they moved it from some obscure off-Broadway theater to right smack-dab in the middle of full Broadway, once the producers knew they had a huge hit on their hands!
What a pleasure it is to see this musical in such a clear copy! The kinescope that was on RUclips before was lacking in picture and sound! This copy was procured by Jack Gilford's (he played the King) son...❤
The missing scene (about 10 minutes) comes at 48 minutes in the videotape. There's a scene of Dauntless and Winifred together in his bedroom doing his homework. With the Video Calibration text coming up, I'm thinking that there was a hard cut there from the source tape and this part of the broadcast just didn't make it from the video master. 2" video is finicky and sometimes things can get lost, so that doesn't surprise me. When An Evening with Fred Astaire was restored only 30 years after it first broadcast, the kinescope had to be utilized as well. Videotape was never intended to be a preservation format and we're lucky this much survived. Thank you OP!
i think I (sammy gilford) cut it!!! cause it went sooooo far away from the original!!!! not only cutting out vital tunes but? replacing them with tunes that didnt belong in the original !!! which none of us will ever see? I DID get to see it. thanks for your detail. If? you can find a better more complete copy PLEASE POST IT until then?..... I hope most people can still enjoy the hour and 15 mins? that are here for everyone to see? do you agree?
This is the way the Spanish Panic should look: totally absurd. Like no dance anyone would actually invent. I also do not understand why it turned into a Polish Panic in a later version. No one could do "I'm in Love with a Girl Named Fred," like Carol Burnett. Think about it. The barbells do not change, and yet in that short period of time, while she's dashing frantically all over, she has to make it seem like they get a little easier, a little easier for her to lift each time. What a great and entertaining actress Ms. Burnett is and always has been.
Divine clownery. Carol Burnett remains unrivaled. The piece hasn't stayed around as long as it has for nothing. Lovely. Thanks so much for posting. 💞🙌🎶🎭🎶🙌💞
Thank you! I've seen so many Burnett versions of this favorite musical. Like so many others, I've done this show so I'm always surprised which songs and what adaptations the filmed versions make. Having just done a high school production I wrote the production team of the 1972 version with my “criticism of cut numbers” (young & arrogant 😂) and my favorite response was from Joe Hamilton: “You win some, you lose some”. Well, I missed “Happily Ever After” here, but … what Joe said 😉
I was 4 yo when this aired. I remember having my mom borrow the original cast recording from the library just about every time we went there. Thank you for sharing this!
I saw this original broadcast -- yikes, I was five years old?! I've thought of it from time to time since then, so am glad to see it available here. Thanks for sharing!
Doing this show next month as the Minstrel! So happy to see this! Also I didn't know the Minstrel was married to Larken in this version! That's so weird having it be more than a crush/love triangle.
So HAPPY to see this version. They took out two songs: Many Moons Ago, and the best song In A Little While. Also cut the Spanish Panic back, probably to fit into 1.5 hours for TV.
just saw the sutton foster cast last night and had to compare it to the carol burnett original cast, having never seen the show or heard the score. both are fantastic! although i was very very disappointed they cut Happily Ever After :( sutton foster’s version had a LOT more comedy but she lacks a proper belt which was also disappointing. thanks for posting this!
Mary Rodgers, who wrote the musical score and was the daughter of Richard Rodgers, composed one perfect number after another for this show. Its all perfection. Speaking of perfection, I wonder if MR wrote the role of Winifred specifically for Carol Burnett. Fitted her like a glove. No one I've heard since compares.
This is terrific! I probably saw this when it originally aired. Oh, I was so hoping to see MATT MATTOX and HARRY SNOW in this version, I'd heard so much about Matt Mattox. I noticed ROBERT FITCH, who originated the role of Rooster Hannigan in ANNIE, was one of the courtiers. I miss the trio version of Normandy, and that wonderful change in meter leading into that terrific ending of all three voices. It would be wonderful if the entire cast had been listed. Was Patti Karr in this version? Thanks for the detailed liner notes!
In case you're wondering where you've seen the minstrel's lady before, it's Shani Wallis, who also played the role of Nancy in the film version of "Oliver!"
When you see this you really understand why Carol got famous, she is absolutely free iin this part. Such magnificence! Btw, is tha Elliot Gould as the Jester?
Thanks for this, my mom always asks if I'm this, but it's was always "Once upon a mattress " with Carol B. as the Queen and Tracy Olmen (sorry if spelled wrong) as "Fred"
There wasn't one song that made it to "mainstream" radio as a crossover hit the way others did. But it doesn't take away from the show's enduring and endearing run as a genuine crowd pleaser. I remember as a kid seeing Carol in the original, and enjoyed the album many times subsequently.
I love this show. The first time I played Lady Merril and I loved it so much. The second time I was the Queen and hated the production. It was the rest of the company the second time that made it so bad. I still love the show, though. The ensemble is much more fun.
While this is the best-looking ’64 “Mattress” I have seen, it omits an entire act in which Dauntless coaches Winifred for the test, with math and other subjects. Winifred’s song, “Under a Spell” (which replaces ‘Happily Ever After”), is also omitted.
I am sorry I omitted it I felt after experiencing the orig off bdway version and growing up with the LP these tv songs did not really belong in it . so?... I took them out there are other versions i think contain it but the tv prod took very valuable tunes out so?.?
No. Colorization ruins the films they do it to. If you prefer color, they redid it in color a few years later. TV was all black and white until 1966. ruclips.net/video/-FqTnsLoReo/видео.htmlsi=_mLRNyCf2GDDrPhT
Even if she could actually feel the pea it's only in one spot under the mattresses and she could have just moved to another part of the bed. I mean it just did't make sense, really.
So true. Also the Wizard of Oz. I mean, the witch melted from exposure to water?! How'd she ever drink anything? Sheesh, no sense at all. And don't get me started on the talking apple tree.
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Lovely Jane White, here reprising her stage role of the queen was actually African American. Truely a trailblazer.
she was also in "klute" as the madam. she was married to Alfredo the chef she also had an antique lamp store on 6th and 13th in the village . she was a tremendous actress
Thanks for pointing that out ❤!
Yes. In Mary Rodgers' memoir she mentions that Jane White was great on the stage audition but George Abbot didn't want an Negro in a show about medieval times. The creators sent Jane to this magical make-up artist to make her look "more white." Humiliating, no doubt, esp in modern eyes, but she got the part and owned it.
This brings back memories of what watching TV specials as a kid was like.
This show, Cinderella, and Peter Pan. Also the National Geographic and Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau specials.
The first television adaptation of this musical aired June 3, 1964 on CBS. The production was videotaped in black and white in front of a live audience and featured Carol Burnett as Princess Winnifred, Joseph Bova as Prince Dauntless, Jack Gilford as King Sextimus the Silent, and Jane White as the Queen, from the original Broadway cast.
New principals Bill Hayes, well known as Doug on Days of Our Lives, as the Minstrel, Shani Wallis, known to many as Nancy in the 1967 movie Oliver!, as Lady Larken, and Elliott Gould (in his first appearance on any screen) as the Jester were added to the cast.
Once Upon a Mattress (1964)
Songs Used:
Shy (first number sung in this production)
Normandy (sung by the Minstrel and Lady Larken)
Sensitivity
The Swamps of Home
The Spanish Panic (with a different melody)
Song of Love
Quiet (Act 2 begins at 41:23)
Daddy’s Soft Shoes
Man to Man Talk
Nightingale Lullaby
Finale (A princess is a delicate thing…)
Songs Not Used:
Many Moons Ago
We Have an Opening for a Princess
In a Little While
The Minstrel, the Jester, and I
Happily Ever After
Yesterday I Loved You
Due to the reduced running time of 90 minutes, several songs, characters, and scenes were either cut or shortened. Some differences between the 1959 stage version and this 1964 version are:
There is no Sir Harry. The character of Sir Harry, who made Lady Larken pregnant, from the stage version has been omitted and replaced by the Minstrel as Lady Larken's love interest. The pregnancy conflict concerning Sir Harry and Lady Larken from the original stage play was downplayed to the two lovers having been secretly married against the laws of the kingdom in this television version.
The Minstrel is fired for mocking the Queen in song.
The Minstrel is to be beheaded since he attempted to take Lady Larken out of the kingdom.
The King discovers the plot of the pea while in the stage version it is the Minstrel who does.
The Queen uses only the revolving mirror and the warm milk with opium. She doesn’t use the incense, so there are only two ladies in waiting.
Thank you for that very thorough information. It's so wonderful that this was filmed - Burnett is one of the greatest entertainers. I do understand the challenge of time - songs inevitably must be cut for tv, as most musicals run 2-2.5 hours and tv, especially all those years ago, wanted to keep it at 90 minutes. But, cutting Winnifred's second act showstopper, Happily Ever After" is not acceptable! It's like -- cut the Jester's soft shoes song. Oh well, glass more than half full. THANKS SO MUCH TO THE PERSON WHO POSTED. here's the original cast album recording of "Happily Ever After" (it was included in the 1972 taping of MATTRESS, again starring Burnett): ruclips.net/video/S7q_wgLa2AQ/видео.html
Daddy's Soft Shoes is a pleasant song, but I agree that it is a song that easily could have been cut to have Happily Ever After used. Thank you for the compliment on my post. I was happy to post it for others. I have been in four communtity theater productions of it: twice as ensemble and twice as King Sextimus the Silent, so I have a good knowledge of the original script.
So many changes! I'm not sure how I feel about having my character sentenced to death lol.
Very true!
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I was six years old and remember watching this in June, 1964. This was, perhaps, my earliest memory of Carol Burnett.
my god, she is absolutely perfect. i've never seen anyone do this role better.
Which is exactly why they moved it from some obscure off-Broadway theater to right smack-dab in the middle of full Broadway, once the producers knew they had a huge hit on their hands!
she did an amazing job!
What a pleasure it is to see this musical in such a clear copy! The kinescope that was on RUclips before was lacking in picture and sound! This copy was procured by Jack Gilford's (he played the King) son...❤
*King*s son
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If you're reading this? Mr. Gilford? Thanks for bringing back this piece of Broadway and tv musical/comedy history to all of us.
Loved it! I haven't seen this since the original broadcast. Thanks so much!
The missing scene (about 10 minutes) comes at 48 minutes in the videotape. There's a scene of Dauntless and Winifred together in his bedroom doing his homework. With the Video Calibration text coming up, I'm thinking that there was a hard cut there from the source tape and this part of the broadcast just didn't make it from the video master. 2" video is finicky and sometimes things can get lost, so that doesn't surprise me. When An Evening with Fred Astaire was restored only 30 years after it first broadcast, the kinescope had to be utilized as well. Videotape was never intended to be a preservation format and we're lucky this much survived. Thank you OP!
i think I (sammy gilford) cut it!!! cause it went sooooo far away from the original!!!! not only cutting out vital tunes but? replacing them with tunes that didnt belong in the original !!! which none of us will ever see? I DID get to see it. thanks for your detail. If? you can find a better more complete copy PLEASE POST IT until then?..... I hope most people can still enjoy the hour and 15 mins? that are here for everyone to see? do you agree?
@@musimages23 did the master tape have the footage cut? Or did you cut it from your VHS?
One of the gtreatest musical comedies ever. This is such a terrific recording, I can't thank you enough!
I loved this as a kid. I’m 72 now and remembered every lyric!!! What a blast! Thanks for the memories!! ❤
That Spanish Panic choreography is hilarious. Looks like a crazy dance from the 1920s.
This is the way the Spanish Panic should look: totally absurd. Like no dance anyone would actually invent. I also do not understand why it turned into a Polish Panic in a later version.
No one could do "I'm in Love with a Girl Named Fred," like Carol Burnett. Think about it. The barbells do not change, and yet in that short period of time, while she's dashing frantically all over, she has to make it seem like they get a little easier, a little easier for her to lift each time. What a great and entertaining actress Ms. Burnett is and always has been.
I remember the 1972 version of this with Carol and Ken Berry, but I have never seen this one! Thank you for posting!
1972 version was AWFUL. It was just an extension of the Carol Burnett SHow.
Me either I wondered how I missed it and then saw that it aired one day before my first birthday
Divine clownery. Carol Burnett remains unrivaled. The piece hasn't stayed around as long as it has for nothing. Lovely. Thanks so much for posting. 💞🙌🎶🎭🎶🙌💞
THANKS LIPTON TEA!
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Thank you for posting the tape version... the sound on the kinescope that's been circulating for years can't compare... so wonderful!
I remember seeing this when it first aired . What great fun to watch it again. Thank you .
Thank you! I've seen so many Burnett versions of this favorite musical. Like so many others, I've done this show so I'm always surprised which songs and what adaptations the filmed versions make. Having just done a high school production I wrote the production team of the 1972 version with my “criticism of cut numbers” (young & arrogant 😂) and my favorite response was from Joe Hamilton: “You win some, you lose some”. Well, I missed “Happily Ever After” here, but … what Joe said 😉
I remember playing the Minstrel when I was in Grade 12 - so many great memories of that show. :)
I was 4 yo when this aired. I remember having my mom borrow the original cast recording from the library just about every time we went there.
Thank you for sharing this!
I saw this original broadcast -- yikes, I was five years old?! I've thought of it from time to time since then, so am glad to see it available here. Thanks for sharing!
Doing this show next month as the Minstrel! So happy to see this! Also I didn't know the Minstrel was married to Larken in this version! That's so weird having it be more than a crush/love triangle.
What a treat!! Never knew Elliot Gould could sing - he's great! I am simply BLOWN AWAY at how good this production really is - it's top notch!
Check out the OBC recording of "I Can Get it for you Wholesale" (here on RUclips) the Broadway musical he was in with Barbra Streisand.
Carol Burnett is a national treasure!
A great performance by one of our beloved lady clowns..Ms.Burnett.
Someone complained? Really? i'm just grateful this exists!
43:00 - Elliott Gould as the jester, singing and dancing, remembering "When Daddy Wore His Very Soft Shoes". 👍
Wonderful to see this YEARS after I saw it on TV. Bless you!
I'm so glad we had this time together!
Just to share a laugh or sin a song
So HAPPY to see this version. They took out two songs: Many Moons Ago, and the best song In A Little While. Also cut the Spanish Panic back, probably to fit into 1.5 hours for TV.
What a huge difference from the actual stage show...so many changes!
just saw the sutton foster cast last night and had to compare it to the carol burnett original cast, having never seen the show or heard the score. both are fantastic! although i was very very disappointed they cut Happily Ever After :( sutton foster’s version had a LOT more comedy but she lacks a proper belt which was also disappointing. thanks for posting this!
Mary Rodgers, who wrote the musical score and was the daughter of Richard Rodgers, composed one perfect number after another for this show. Its all perfection.
Speaking of perfection, I wonder if MR wrote the role of Winifred specifically for Carol Burnett. Fitted her like a glove. No one I've heard since compares.
A refreshing video.
the minstrel/narrator is none other than Bill Hayes who (among many accomplishments) played Doug Williams on Days of Our Lives for over 50 years.
I was amazed at that have always been a Doug and Julie fan
This is terrific! I probably saw this when it originally aired. Oh, I was so hoping to see MATT MATTOX and HARRY SNOW in this version, I'd heard so much about Matt Mattox. I noticed ROBERT FITCH, who originated the role of Rooster Hannigan in ANNIE, was one of the courtiers. I miss the trio version of Normandy, and that wonderful change in meter leading into that terrific ending of all three voices. It would be wonderful if the entire cast had been listed. Was Patti Karr in this version? Thanks for the detailed liner notes!
3:06 It's Elliot Gould... since nobody else bothered to name him.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Norman Fell and Eliot Goul as "the youngsters" in a movie. 😜
i love how she really can feel the pea too :D
I was fortunate to have watched the live presentation. I must have been 8. Imagine that. Thanks RUclips
Me too.
I get to play Winnifred at my school!
Have fun! It's a great role!🎉
@@kallen868thanks!
In case you're wondering where you've seen the minstrel's lady before, it's Shani Wallis, who also played the role of Nancy in the film version of "Oliver!"
32:18 "Do you know any social dances?"
'Oooh, I know the Swamp Stomp!'
32:56 "We can do the Spanish Panic!" 😯?
So so good. Ty for posting
Glad you enjoyed it!
There's a version on here that a high school did in 2014 that I think Carol would've loved.
When you see this you really understand why Carol got famous, she is absolutely free iin this part. Such magnificence! Btw, is tha Elliot Gould as the Jester?
Yes, that's him.
Thanks for this, my mom always asks if I'm this, but it's was always "Once upon a mattress " with Carol B. as the Queen and Tracy Olmen (sorry if spelled wrong) as "Fred"
Tracy ullman.
There wasn't one song that made it to "mainstream" radio as a crossover hit the way others did. But it doesn't take away from the show's enduring and endearing run as a genuine crowd pleaser. I remember as a kid seeing Carol in the original, and enjoyed the album many times subsequently.
36:14. "Why yes... we just happen to have a medieval barbell here in the courtyard. Why do you ask?"
i recognize the Wizard-Jack Fletcher. He was Whittendale on Jeffersons and Swackhammer on Gimme a Break!
Just watched the Disney version last night in which Carol Burnett plays the queen instead of the princess. I much prefer this version!
I had no idea Elliot Gould was a song and dance man.
It's too bad that CBS doesn't show this every year so that the younger generations can see what good, clean entertainment is!
Ah swam th' mote. Remember that from when i was a kid.
I love this show. The first time I played Lady Merril and I loved it so much. The second time I was the Queen and hated the production. It was the rest of the company the second time that made it so bad. I still love the show, though. The ensemble is much more fun.
I have the cast recording.
While this is the best-looking ’64 “Mattress” I have seen, it omits an entire act in which Dauntless coaches Winifred for the test, with math and other subjects. Winifred’s song, “Under a Spell” (which replaces ‘Happily Ever After”), is also omitted.
I am sorry I omitted it I felt after experiencing the orig off bdway version and growing up with the LP these tv songs did not really belong in it . so?...
I took them out there are other versions i think contain it but the tv prod took very valuable tunes out so?.?
I like the harry and Larkin in this version best
wish you saw the original 59 prod? you can hear Anne jones and harry snow? on the orig cast recording....she drank herself to death. im on FB ok
Elliott Gould surprised me :)
Well, they combined some characters and cut some songs and shortened a 2 1/2 hour musical to a little over an hour.
Note a very young Elliot Gould in the cast.
Did I miss "Happily Ever After" or is that not in this one?
I had a sonsband, too.
Did Dr. Seuss write this adaptation?
This feels like Laugh-In.
The author was making fun of sensitivity.
Wish they would colorize this.
No. Colorization ruins the films they do it to. If you prefer color, they redid it in color a few years later. TV was all black and white until 1966.
ruclips.net/video/-FqTnsLoReo/видео.htmlsi=_mLRNyCf2GDDrPhT
@@dfwjac Well you can always watch it in b&w.
A little advice... you should really consider changing the video description. It comes across as really whiny and immature.
Even if she could actually feel the pea it's only in one spot under the mattresses and she could have just moved to another part of the bed. I mean it just did't make sense, really.
So true. Also the Wizard of Oz. I mean, the witch melted from exposure to water?! How'd she ever drink anything? Sheesh, no sense at all. And don't get me started on the talking apple tree.
Maybe -- just maybe -- not sure, but maybe -- maybe -- that's why this is called a FAIRY tale.
She can drink anything that doesn’t have water in it…
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It doesn’t have to make sense, it’s just for fun!!