Perfect casting all around produced fine-tuned dancing, exquisite singing and spot-on acting. It was enough to bring a smile to everyone’s face and forget for a spell the angst of the world beyond the stage at Actors Cabaret of Eugene.

The Non-Stop Players — a resident music theater company of ACE and perhaps the finest music theater troupe in the Eugene-Springfield area — polished off the first weekend of the romantic comedy Once Upon a Mattress August 8 through 10 with delightful energy and flair, and the cast is back at it for a final weekend August 15 through 17.

The musical — music by Mary Rodgers and lyrics by Marshar Barer — made it to Broadway in 1959 with a cast that included the great Carol Burnett. It follows the lives of English castle dwellers in 1428 who are surrounded by

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