Once Upon A Mattress Auditions

Please note, if you are planning on auditioning for "Once Upon a Mattress" on the first day of auditions (Saturday, June 14th at 2:00 pm) please be advised to arrive early. The Talbot Street Art Fair will be underway that day, and most of the parking in the lot immediately east of Footlite will be taken up by vehicles belonging to the Art Fair merchants. The parking area south of Footlite's building actually belongs to the theatre and will be reserved for auditioners, but if there are many in attendance, you may need to locate street parking in the surrounding neighborhood.

Footlite Musicals and director Ed Trout will hold open auditions for the Young Artists' production (ages 13-18) of "Once Upon a Mattress" on Saturday, June 14th at 2:00 pm and Monday, June 16th at 7:00 pm. Please prepare a verse of a song that best shows your vocal range, and bring sheet music in the appropriate key. Come dressed to dance and have fun.

Performance dates are August 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 2008 at Hedback Theatre, home of Footlite Musicals.

For questions, you may call Ed Trout at 317-590-7305.

"Once Upon a Mattress" is the hilarious forerunner of a whole variety of shows that spoof fairy tales and the whole Disney approach to them. Films like "Shrek" and "Enchanted" might very well never have happened had it not been for the earlier example of "Once Upon a Mattress." Due to an unhappy curse, King Sextimus is unable to speak. Meanwhile, his terror of a wife, Queen Aggravian, has taken over control of the kingdom. Most importantly, in an attempt to keep Prince Dauntless single, she has decreed that only the princess that can pass her test may marry her son. Further, no one else in the kingdom may marry until Prince Dauntless does. Lady Larken and Sir Harry are extremely disturbed by this fact since Lady Larken is now pregnant with Sir Harry's baby. Luckily, Sir Harry is able to find an amazing princess, Winnifred the Woebegone. She instantly catches the attention of Prince Dauntless, and is put to the Queen's supposedly impassable sensitivity test involving a pea under twenty mattresses.