| Was "dulling the shock" really part of the original plan, though? I mean, the show is full of sex jokes right from the title itself, and the opening number ("no one is getting any...younger..."). Perhaps time has now made some of the lyrics and situations in the show seem less edgy, but in 1959 I think audiences were certainly used to bawdy musical comedies lol. And I'm sure that Mattress was far from the first show to deal with unplanned pregnancies on some level - maybe not always as a major plot point, but for instance, the punchline of "My Mother's Wedding Day" comes to mind, and that was 1947... (Or, West Side Story's "they didn't wanna have me, but somehow I was had...") |
