Trivia / Once Upon a Mattress

• Cut Song: "Very Soft Shoes" is cut from the television and film versions because it is a Superfluous Solo. It's a singing and dancing number for the Jester that imparts some unnecessary background info on him, and it's done so late in the show that it conspicuously stops the plot.
• What Could Have Been: The role of Winnifred was written for Nancy Walker, who had been one of Broadway's top musical comediennes since the 1940s, but director George Abbott, who had worked with Walker many times before, told the production team that he didn't want an established Broadway star for the part. This turned out to be for the best, since the creators soon realized that Carol Burnett was the perfect choice.