History Theatre / TheCuriousSavage

[[TeamMom Florence]]: A dignified woman who carries around a baby doll, [[TearJerker believing it to be her son, who died when he was an infant]].

* HappilyMarried: Mrs. Savage never regretted all of the things she didn't get to do because she married young... until after her husband died.

* AffectionateNickname: Miss Willie calls Jeff "Bingo," much to his consternation since it's a pet name his wife uses...who happens to be Miss Willie herself.

Miss Willie: A nurse.

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[[HouseWife Florence]]: A dignified woman who carries around a baby doll, [[TearJerker believing it to be her son, who died when he was an infant]].

* DelinquentHair: Before the play begins, Mrs. Savage has invoked this by dying her hair blue as part of her becoming a Senior Delinquent (in her grown-up stepchildren's eyes).

* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Savage.

[[GenkiGirl Fairy May]]: A plain young woman, with the mind of a six-year-old, who is a CompulsiveLiar. [[DelusionsOfBeauty She believes she is stunningly beautiful]] and is determined to have someone say "I love you" to her at least once a day.

* {{Jerkass}}: In a set of three.

Mrs. Ethel P. Savage has just inherited $10 million from her late husband. After her husband's death, she realizes her crazy, youthful dreams and plans to use the money to help others do the same. Her stepkids--[[RichBitch Lily Belle]], [[SleazyPolitician Titus]], and [[ObliviousYoungerSibling Samuel]]--commit her to The Cloisters, a sanatorium in Massachusetts, so that they can get their hands on the money. Somehow or another, Mrs. Savage manages to send them on one wild-goose chase after another from her seclusion.

[[GenkiGirl Fairy May]]: A plain girl, with the mind of a six-year-old, who is a CompulsiveLiar. [[DelusionsOfBeauty She believes she is stunningly beautiful]] and is determined to have someone say "I love you" to her at least once a day.

[[GenkiGirl Fairy May]]: A plain girl, with the mind of a six-year-old, who is a CompulsiveLiar. She believes she is stunningly beautiful and is determined to have someone say "I love you" to her at least once a day.

* NobilityMarriesMoney: Lily Belle once married a Slovak prince. She's remarried five times since then.

[[GoodWithNumbers Hannibal]]: A former statistician, who lost his sense of reasoning after being replaced by an electronic calculator and not finding work again. [[GiftedlyBad He believes he is an excellent violinist]].

* ButNowIMustGo: Inverted. Mrs. Savage is given permission to leave the sanitarium, but doesn't want to, because she's found a peace in The Cloisters that she's never experienced elsewhere. Dr. Emmett has to persuade her that it's the outside world that needs her.

* KillTheLights: Mrs. Paddy, who has given up electricity for Lent, does this many times, causing mayhem.

* DelusionsOfBeauty: Downplayed. Fairy May, one of the inhabitants of the Cloisters, believes she's beautiful when she's actually fairly homely. When Mrs. Savage sees the inhabitants as they view themselves at the end, Fairy May is a lovely, well-dressed girl standing and waving to the people admiring her.

* DoubleEntendre

[[GrumpyOldMan Mrs. Paddy]]: An artist who paints only seascapes, each consisting of one undulating line. This strikes Hannibal as "odd, because she's never seen the ocean." Her husband once told her to shut up, and she never spoke again, except to rant: [[LongList "I hate lightning, skunk cabbage, custard, mustard, spiders, blisters...."]]