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Jay Thompson

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Book Writer

Jay Thompson was an American writer who, with Marshall Barer and Dean Fuller, co-wrote the book for Once Upon a Mattress (1959), the Mary Rodgers musical based on "The Princess and the Pea."

Also credited on2 works

Once Upon A Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress (2024 Revival)

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In the literature8 passages

  • Barer and his two colibrettists Dean Fuller and Jay Thompson established that Aggravain was sorry that her favorite candidate doesn’t quite qualify: “If I were only twenty years younger,” she moaned. Given that she took herself out of the running, Aggravain said that any contender for her son’s hand “must be a real, genuine, bona fide pri…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • The show continues in that vein, filling out The Princess and the Pea with all sorts of modern devilry. The book is by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, and Dean Fuller, who, like First Impressions' Goldman, Paxton, and Weiss, somehow never got the repeated chances to firm up an oeuvre; but the music, to Barer's lyrics, is by Mary Rodgers, da…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Music by Mary Rodgers; lyrics by Marshall Barer; book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer and Dean Fuller, based on the story The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersenebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • (Sandy) For musical numbers, see Broadway Calendar, page 54. Jay Thompson Photostheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • Stockard Channing, Rhonda Farer, 3. John Hillner, 4. Donna Murphy, 5. Hal Shane Jay Thompson Photostheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt
  • "The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" (Adam Newman) Left Center: Joan Allen, John Malkovich in "Burn This" (Jay Thompson) Top: Alan Feinstein, June Stein, Steve Bassett, Steve Gregan in "As Is" (Gerry Goodslein) Top Right: (front) Anita Gillette, Jonathan Hadary, (back) David Groh, Trishtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1986-87 Season, v. 43 (Willis, John).txt

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