'Once Upon a Mattress' review: Sutton Foster is a perfect princess on Broadway

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In the fairy-tale send-up “Once Upon a Mattress,” Prince Dauntless the Drab finally meets the woman he’s been waiting his whole life for — Winnifred the Woebegone.

Enter — through the murky moat, covered in mud and grass — Princess Winnifred. Dauntless is immediately smitten, while his evil mother Queen Aggravain would prefer to smite her.As the monarch, I expected Gasteyer, so memorable on “Saturday Night Live,” to get more laughs. She nails being nasty, but comes short of being love-to-hate.

And Brooks Ashmanskas’ Wizard can only manage Party City magic tricks, while Daniel Breaker’s narrating Jester is silly until he’s unexpectedly haunted. DeBessonet’s “Mattress” is not a thoughtful, conceptual reduction — it’s just the formula Encores! almost always employs to showcase an old score. That’s fine for 55th Street, but it’s much too slim and straightforward for a night out on Broadway.

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