sentences:  The cast featured Florence Henderson as Mary, José Ferrer as Charles, Irene Browne as the Queen Mother, Sean Scully as Nicholas, British music hall star Tessie O'Shea as Ada Cockle, and Roderick Cook as Peter Northbrook.Henderson and O'Shea were singled out for praise by the critics — Henderson for her one-woman delivery of an abridged version of "The Coconut Girl", and O'Shea for her extended song-and-dance routine of Cockney tunes.Otherwise, the review by the influential critic Walter Kerr in the "Herald Tribune" was mostly negative.