On this day in 1996, film and television star, Sarah Jessica Parker made her big Broadway return as Princess Winnifed in a revival of the fractured fairytale Once Upon A Mattress!
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is now a publisher, and joins TODAY along with the author of her imprint's first novel: Fatima Farheen Mirza, whose book “A Place for Us” is the story of a traditional Indian-American family in California torn between traditional and modern values. Parker calls Mirza “a new American voice.” Watch the clip below!
Sarah Jessica Parker stopped by 'Popcorn With Peter Travers' to talk about her new HBO series 'Divorce' and treated fans to a sweet rendition of 'Maybe' from the Broadway musical ANNIE.
Sarah Jessica Parker stopped by last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Bravo and revealed that she would love to do another Broadway musical.
Today in 1996, the first Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress opened at the Broadhurst Theatre, where it ran for188 performances. Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. The play was written as an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. Once Upon A Mattress marked the Broadway debut of later stage and TV legend Carol Burnett, who originated the role of Princess Winnifred.
'The Today Show' just featured a special segment in which correspondents Jenna Bush Hager and Sara Haines visited Costume World of Pompano Beach, Florida. While they were there, they checked out the hundreds of thousands of old Broadway costumes that have found a home there. Click below to check out the video!
Before the world fell in love with Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City on TV, she was a theatre baby. She starred as Annie and co starred opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, in How to Succeed in Business... She also headlined as Princess Winnifred in the 1996 Broadway revival of Once Upon A Mattress. We take you back to 1996 when she spoke of how she first caught the theatre bug!
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