TWITTER BREAK: Ten Terrific Tweets From ONCE UPON A MATTRESS' Jackie Hoffman
By: Michael Dale Nov. 09, 2015
Broadway's Queen of Kvetching, Jackie Hoffman, has been sending New York audiences into hysterics with her outrageous antics since making her 2002 Broadway debut in HAIRSPRAY.
When word started spreading through the Internet that she was allowed one ad-libbed line per performance while making an awkward 2nd act entrance over an audience member ("Last lap dance before Yom Kippur!", "Don't look up the dress I've got stretch marks!") Broadway posted a collection over 60 of her funniest wise-cracks (click here).
Her newest gig is starring as Princess Winnifred in Transport Group's new Off-Broadway revival of the musical classic ONCE UPON A MATTRESS.
Here are some recent highlights from Jackie Hoffman's Twitter feed where she comments on rehearsals, attending opening night of Broadway's newest musical, ALLEGIANCE, and more.
Carol Burnett told me I'd have fun with this role. She failed to tell me I need the stamina of Caitlyn when she was Bruce #OUAM
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) October 28, 2015
Starring in a show on the lowest most eastern corner of Manhattan will be sure to land me that caricature at Sardis #OUAM
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) October 28, 2015
My costumes for princess Winifred will be fabulous but once I'm on stage with Lypsinka, it won't matter #OUAM
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) October 29, 2015
I know it's supposed to get dark earlier, but at 11 in the morning?
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) November 1, 2015
Seeing First daughter suite! Can't wait to not be sophisticated enough for the music
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) November 4, 2015
For this next revival of Fiddler, the audience will be saying the lines like a screening of Rocky Horror
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) November 6, 2015
Anatevka is as restricted as a Christian country club #NotInFiddler
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) November 6, 2015
Figuring out what to wear to opening night of allegiance. Guess I can rule out that remember Pearl Harbor T-shirt
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) November 8, 2015
The book writer said he's a fan. Maybe he'll write a musical about a Jewish Sr. Ctr.
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) November 8, 2015
You know you have a serious musical when your 11 o'clock number is Hiroshima
- Jackie Hoffman (@JackieHoffman16) November 9, 2015
Transport Group will soon present Once Upon a Mattress, starring Jackie Hoffman (On the Town, Difficult People, Hairspray) as Princess Winnifred and John "Lypsinka"Epperson (Lypsinka's The Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford) as Queen Aggravain. The production, which is directed by five-time Drama Desk Award nominee Jack Cummings III, features Jessica Fontana (Cinderella) as Lady Larken, David Greenspan (The Patsy) as The King,Hunter Ryan Herdlicka (A Little Night Music) as The Minstrel, Cory Lingner (On the Town) as The Jester, Zak Resnick (Piece of My Heart) as Sir Harry, Jay Rogers (Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly) as The Wizard, and Jason SweetTooth Williams (Things to Ruin) as Prince Dauntless, with Vivienne Cleary, Richard Costa, Michael De Souza,Tim Dolan, Jack Donahue,Amy Griffin, Sarah Killough, Kristen Michelle, Ali Reed,and Doug Shapiro.
The raucous musical fairy tale Once Upon A Mattress stars the formidable Jackie Hoffman (On the Town, Xanadu, Difficult People) and the inimitable John "Lypsinka" Epperson (Lypsinka's The Boxed Set, The Passion of the Crawford). During a kingdom-wide search to find a princess fit for the hapless Prince Dauntless, in swims the less-than-regal Princess Winnifred the Woebegone (Hoffman). Unrefined and undeniably charming, Winnifred is like no princess Dauntless has ever seen and his heart is captured. The truly terrible Queen Aggravain (Epperson) goes on a mission to come between her son and his soulmate in this retelling of the classic story of "The Princess and the Pea." This is a Happily-Ever-After like no other!
Once Upon a Mattress has music by Mary Rodgers and lyrics by Marshall Barer and a book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer.
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