A Broadway fairy tale comes to Munich’s Prinzregententheater. Celebrated stage director Philipp Moschitz uses up-tempo slapstick to project Once Upon a Mattress into the here and now. The modern parody of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea, composed by Mary Rodgers, premiered on Broadway in 1959.
“No one may wed ’till the prince shares his wedding bed”. In vain, the citizens of a distant kingdom therefore strive to find a ‘true’ princess for Prince Dauntless. Yet nobody is able to satisfy the absurd and unrealistic demands of the Queen Mother – until Princess Winnifred turns up. This resolute young lady breaks with conventions and wins the hearts of the locals. Together, they raise their voice and outsmart the scheming queen.
Other dates:
- Sunday, 19.11. at 6 p.m.
- Tuesday, 21.11. at 7:30 p.m.
- Thursday, 23.11. at 11 a.m.
- Saturday, 25.11. at 15 p.m.
- Saturday, 25.11. at 7:30 p.m.
Organized by the August Everding Theater Academy and the University of Music and Theater Munich (HMTM), together with the study course Musicals (headed by Professor Marianne Larsen) and the collaborative study course in Dramatic Composition at LMU.
Tickets: 10 - 39 Euro/ 8 Euro (concessional rate). For more information, please visit the August Everding Theater Academy website.