Once Upon A Mattress
"Once Upon a Mattress" is a modern version of the story "Princess and the Pea". In the story Prince Dauntless is a mama's boy whose mother, Queen Aggravain has ruled that no one else is allowed to marry until her son does. In spite of the Queens wishes for her son to be married, she seemingly manages to sabotage the town's hopes of ever marrying. By testing and failing every applicable princess who comes along, the mother destroys her son's desires of being with a woman. When another character, Sir Harry, sets off on a voyage to find a princess suitable to the Queens demands, he comes upon the klutzy Princess Winnifred. Following her arrival to the "magical kingdom", Princess Winnifred makes an enormous entrance, where she and Prince Dauntless quickly take a liking to each other. Queen Aggravain, clearly not pleased by the attraction between the two, comes up with an especially arduous test for Winnifred to pass. Winnifred must prove that she holds the sensitivity of a true......
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