Once Upon a Mattress G2K

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 11/3/13 at 11:07pm

Has anyone ever been in (or directed) this version of Once Upon a Mattress? I'm most likely going to be directing this in the spring and I'd like to find out what songs are cut from the original. The R and H website did not tell. Any information?

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 11/3/13 at 11:10pm

Did this one a couple of years ago and it was great. Obviously things have to be changed as Larkin can't be pregnant in the G2K version, so everyone just wants Dauntless to get married, so they can do the same. Not a crazy change. The kids loved the show. Were there any songs in particular that you were wondering about?

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 11/3/13 at 11:21pm

Sensitivity, soft shoes, both Larkin and Harry duets, the swamps of home. I figured most everything else would be there.

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 7:03am

Sensitivity, The Swamps of Home, and one of the Larkin/Harry duets is there (forget which one off the top of my head). No Soft Shoes.

[Patash]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 7:54am

No "soft shoes". Well that figures. Any show that can't mention things like a woman having a baby our of wedlock (gasp) certainly isn't about to have a funny dressed guy singing about his "daddy"!

[allamarane]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 11:18am

The complete song list is:
Many Moons Ago
Opening for a Princess
Reprise: Many Moon Ago
Shy
Sensitivity
The Swamps of Home
The Minstrel, the Jester and I
Happily Ever After
Yesterday I Loved You
Spanish Panic
Song Of Love
Three O'clock in the Morning/Quiet! *This is a spoken version of the song, rather than the actual song*
Finale

"I know what the sunlight can be"

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 2:46pm

No Normandy either?!?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 2:48pm

What the hell is Once Upon a Mattress G2K?

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 3:27pm

G2K means "Getting to Know" which is the R and H version of a Jr. Show.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 3:44pm

OH! I was trying to get "2000" (2K) in there somehow.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 6:17pm

Except the G2K you is a weak imitiation. The Jr Series is pretty awesome, and provide the students with so much information. (Granted, some titles translate better than others.)

If I remember correctly, the G2K you series is a bit more expensive, AND you have to return all the scripts. (But it's been a good number of years since I've looked at them.)

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 6:33pm

Based on my own experiences with G2K vs. Jr. shows, they're pretty on par. You don't have to return G2K scripts - I think they realize that the students are pretty much an organizational nightmare and to get it back would be an impossible task. The only difference I saw was that G2K gives you only one copy of the music CD while Jr. shows give you two.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 11/4/13 at 9:50pm

I sure as hell hope you don't have to return the scripts...which we are still waiting for the other half to arrive. R and H won't send anything until a certain date...so I just gave what we had in storage and copied the rest.