Queen Aggravain's Marriage Mandate
from Once Upon a Mattress
Written by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller
A overbearing, manipulative, self-absorbed Queen Aggravain's monologue from "Once Upon a Mattress" by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, & Dean Fuller. Genre: musical.
I want you to get married. How many times have I said to you I want you to get married? Only this morning I was saying to your father, I said, “Sextimus, I want that boy to get married. It just isn’t normal for a boy that age to stay single,” I said. “After all, he’s a prince, don’t forget that, and
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