Pulaski High School students will soon perform this year’s musical, “Once Upon a Mattress.”
The show is a “comic retelling of the children’s story ‘The Princess and the Pea,’” said Amy Tubbs, drama director. “Queen Aggravain wants to find the perfect princess for her son, Prince Dauntless, but everyone fails the tests that she and the Wizard create. The King has been cursed and is unable to speak, communicating only in pantomime. Because no one in the kingdom is allowed to marry before the prince, Lady Larken and Sir Harry have a problem with their baby on the way.
“Harry travels to another kingdom and brings back a swamp princess, Princess Winnifred, who will try to pass the test with the help of the Minstrel and the Jester.”
Shows will be performed 7 p.m. Feb. 15 and Feb. 22 and 2 p.m. Feb. 16 and Feb. 23 at the Ripley Performing Arts Center at Pulaski High School, 1040 S. St. Augustine St., Pulaski. Tickets are $8 and available for purchase at pulaskihs.ludus.com.
Pulaski High performing ‘Once Upon a Mattress’
