Word: aggravain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mattress version, the queen, Aggravain, is an all-American hen-pecking hypochondriac who sets up impossible tests for princesses because she has the hots for her son, Prince Dauntless. Felice Perlman rises far above her own experience to play the Queen with a Vogue-social-climber...
When the play opens Aggravain is rejecting the twelfth applicant for Princess. But Dauntless's single status cannot continue forever--no one in the land can marry until the Prince does, and Sir Henry needs to marry Lady Larkin--quick...
...show stays well above a hackneyed combination of a dominating mother and fairy tale. The lines stay fresh onstage. Aggravain's "Remember, blood will tell and yours didn't tell us quite enough," said to a flunking wife-candidate, is a lot funnier under Josh Rubin's direction than it is in the libretto...
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