Once Upon a Mattress was a very nice show. Everyone in the cast did a great job. The basic outline of the tail involves a quest to find the most suitable princess for Prince Dauntless. His overruling mother, the Queen, has other plans for her son’s life, and his father, the King, is a mute due to a curse by a witch. He can talk when the mouse devours the hawk. All of the town’s people are very eager to get the Prince a bride, because then the lover’s in the town will be allowed to marry as well. It took 13 girls to find the bride. Sir Harry was given permission to go and find this 13th girl. He found Princess Winifred in the swamps and marshes far away. Sir Harry is in the greatest hurry to find the Prince’s bride because his girlfriend, Lady Larkin, is pregnant.
The Queen dislikes Princess Winifred right away, because she swam the mote to get to the castle. However, the Prince falls in love with her. The Princess proves to be cable of achieving all the tests, so the Queen decides to test her on sensitivity. The test will be a pea placed under twenty mattresses on which the princess will sleep on. If she can feel the lump on the pea than she is a true princess.
Lady Larkin and Sir Harry have a fall out, but they resolve it in the end. The Princess passes the test and is suitable for the Prince. The Queen still doesn’t think so, but the Prince stands up to her. This sets the King free of his curse, because the mouse, Prince Dauntless, “devoured the hawk, the Queen. The Queen is then silenced and the people of the village life happily ever after with the Prince and Princess.
The plot of this play was very good. My favorite part was R.J. getting chicken slapped. Hilarious. You can learn that you must stand up for what you believe from this musical. Again, congratulations to the cast.
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Nick,
You've summarized the plot well - and I'm glad you enjoyed the show - but you didn't really talk about gender stereotypes.
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