Once Upon a Matress

Musical stageplay staged by ITCC-N (now NEIU) students

Venue: ITCC-N Auditorium

Minstrel - Ronald Harold Benson
"Many moons ago in a far-off place
Lived a handsome prince with a gloomy face
For he did not have a bride.
Oh, he sighed "Alas" And he pined, Alas..."

"We have an opening for a princess

for a genuine certified princess"

"We have an opening for a princess

for a genuine certified princess"

Prince Dauntless and Queen Aggravain

"I'm in love with a girl named Fred

she drinks just like a lord

so come sing a merry drinking song

and let the wine be poured"

"I'm in love with a girl named Fred..."

"I'm in love with a girl named Fred..."

And beneath those twenty mattresses we'll place one tiny pea.

If that pea disturbs her slumber then a true princess is she!

Off to bed

"They all live happily, happily, happily ever after.
The couple is happily leaving the chapel eternally tied.
As the curtain descends, there is nothing but loving and laughter.
When the fairy tale ends the heroine's always a bride."

History Lesson

Finale