Tony winner Sutton Foster, hot off “Sweeney Todd,” is coming back to Broadway immediately.
Foster will star in a summer revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” the musical that brought Carol Burnett to fame 60 plus years ago.
The big news is that “Mattress,” never a substantial show, is now adapted by Amy Sherman-Palladino, the Emmy winning creator of “Gilmore Girls” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
This is the production that played 9 performances this past winter at Encores City Center. Also featured were Michael Urie, Nikki Renée Daniels, J. Harrison Ghee, Harriet Sansom Harris, Cheyenne Jackson, Francis Jue, and David Patrick Kelly. No word yet on which of those top talents will return.
The show will run from August 12th to November 30th at the Hudson Theater. (Previews begin July 31st.)
Foster, known to a generation of TV fans from the show “Younger,” is one of our great Broadway stars. Before her recent turn in “Sweeney Todd,” she had a year’s run with Hugh Jackman in “The Music Man.” Her Tony Award was for “Anything Goes,” which she reprised in London two years ago.
When this production ends in November it goes directly to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
This will be summer’s hot hot ticket.
