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Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#100
Posted: 12/20/05 at 5:27pmB-
Chorus Member Joined: 12/20/05
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#101
Posted: 12/20/05 at 5:52pmD-. I turned it on late and saw my two favorite numbers, swamps of home and happily ever after and couldn't bear to watch more. While Ullman was not nearly as miscast as Matthew Broderick in MM, i still hated it and thought it was the weakest of the series. (At least the others had well known shows/actors). Apart from Carol Burnett, this one had NO ONE who meant anything to the average audience and Entertainment Weekly made a great point that with Kristen Chenoweth doing Old Navy commercials, why is Tracy Ullman playing Winnifred?! Hopefully the next one will be better.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#102
Posted: 12/20/05 at 6:08pm
F
I tried to enjoy it, I really did. But it was too much for me, I had to change the channel after about 15minutes
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#103
Posted: 12/20/05 at 6:52pm
B
The movie was cute but rather forgettable. I loved Denis O'Hare and Matt Morrison but Lady Larkin wasn't very good in my eyes.
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#104
Posted: 12/20/05 at 7:17pm
C
choreography was a little iffy
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#105
Posted: 12/20/05 at 8:38pm
C+
I loved Matty Fresh, but only my love for him would make me watch that movie & purchase it.
Carol Burnett was good... she made me want to play that role.
Negatives:
Tracy Ullman was too old.
Denis O'Hare was too old.
Therefore they weren't that interesting to watch.
Matty should have been on the screen more.
Zooey's voice does not match with Matty's well... hers was more jazz oriented, not really meant for Mattress showtunes.
Still, regardless... I was happy to see Matty again!
~JKor
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#106
Posted: 12/20/05 at 8:47pm
D
Too much screwing around with it in order to make it family friendly-- if you want to make a Disney movie, pick a musical that isn't full of inuendos... and don't take out the damn minstrel.
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#107
Posted: 12/20/05 at 9:11pm
Overall: C
Denis O'Hare and Matt Morrison: A
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#109
Posted: 12/20/05 at 9:28pm
C-
My college is doing Once Upon a Mattress next semester... I expect it to be a better production than this one.
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#110
Posted: 12/21/05 at 1:36amB, from what I saw. (I didn't see the whole thing.)
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/05
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#111
Posted: 12/21/05 at 9:47am
I'd say a B+. It wasn't trying to be some illustrious work of art, and it didn't need to be. I personally loved Tracey, especially her "Happily Ever After." Matt, I thought, sounded lovely and was funny in a cute way. I like Zooey's voice a lot, but I don't think it was very well suited for this show. I bet she'd sound great singing "Nowadays," though.
Is the Disney Cinderella good? I've never seen it.
Stand-by Joined: 8/15/04
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#113
Posted: 12/21/05 at 10:58am
B-
This should be the last TV musical that Disney does.
I did not like Cinderella because of the racial confusions (why is Bernadette Peters the mother of two black girls?)
Annie was okay, but I don't want to see Cheno doing another villain.
I've yet to see Gepetto, but from the reactions on "Whose Line?" (because Drew Carey hosts that show), it did not get good reviews.
The Music Man was fine the way it originally was handled with Bob Preston and Shirley Jones, and everyone was cast in the wrong role except for Kristin Chenoweth.
Once Upon a Mattress was...okay except for the intro that made it seem as if Mary Rodgers wrote it just to advertise Disneyland. WRONG!!!!!
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#114
Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:05am
B+
What I think everyone is failing to realize here is that "Once Upon a Mattress" really isn't that strong of a show, especially score-wise. It's a VERY dull, contrived score that's quite slow in its dance sections, making it difficult to choreograph.
However, good decisions were made in order to keep the movie short and making more sense. The lousy scenes with the Minstrel and the Jester singing completely random songs were fortunately cut, allowing more time to be focused on the characters that actually move the story forward.
Tracy Ullman was a fantastic Fred, in my opinion, giving what she had to work with. Burnett was fine, but Fred is really her role, not Aggravain. Deschanel and Morrison were cute and sang well (she really wasn't flat, people), and O'Hare gave a solid performance as Dauntless.
Now, the movie had its share of problems. A lot of the sexual energy that drives the show on stage obviously was taken out, cause, well...this is Disney, and good songs were cut, and some were pooly edited (Song of Love, particularly.)
But it's a TV Disney children's movie. I personally wasn't expecting a Chicago, and didn't get that, but i was pleased with what i saw.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/03
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#115
Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:50am
Jasobres, I think you are a little confused by your memories of Cindrella. Bernadette was not the mother of two black daughters. I think Veanne Cox is as white as they come. 
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#116
Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:55pm
B+
Denis O'Hare and Carol Burnett were AMAZING!
Tracy Ullman, Edward Hibber and Tommy Smothers were good.
The rest of the cast was forgetable.
The choreography was good.
Overall, I liked it. lol.
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#117
Posted: 5/30/07 at 1:37amD for Dreadful.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
re: Give Disney's Once Upon a Mattress a Grade#118
Posted: 5/30/07 at 10:30pm
B.
It was okay. Enjoyable, but not great.
I loved ANNIE and CINDERELLA, though.
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