Summary
This musical comedy serves as a farcical retelling of the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.” In a medieval kingdom ruled by a tyrannical queen, no one is allowed to marry until her son, Prince Dauntless, finds a suitable wife—a feat the queen prevents by subjecting every candidate to an impossible test. The entire court’s future rests on the arrival of the unrefined but charming Princess Winnifred, who must prove her royal sensitivity by detecting a single pea hidden beneath twenty mattresses.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 7:00 PM Nov 6, 2024, 7:00 PM
(Retrospective, April 2025)
I had been to a few shows here and there and enjoyed them well enough, but it wasn’t until Gavin Creel died - whom I only knew, yes, actually, from watching and rewatching the Eloise TV movies as a kid in Nebraska - that it occurred to me that maybe I was wasting an opportunity living so close to Broadway.
Then Donald won again. I hate letting politics get to me, but I was stressed out about it, and I needed to get out of the house. I picked this show (which, in retrospect, is a bit of an oldie and kind of a weird one to get hooked on) because I recognized it from when a bunch of my friends were in it in high school and Ana Gasteyer from Saturday Night Live was in it.
Then Sutton plinked me in the forehead with a grape, and I was so jolted by the experience that I was compelled to see 100 more shows in the following 6 months, and my brain chemistry was permanently altered, so I guess all things considered I would say it was pretty good.
Shelling out for the signed poster (now framed on my wall) was a nice little bit of inadvertent foresight. (I took Sutton’s spit-covered grape all the way home too before I figured out it was a real one and not rubber)
July 25–August 2, 2025 @ Armory Arts & Events Center, Park Rapids, MN