What I liked
I do love musical theatre…but it’s sometimes not as good as I wish it would be. However, “Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower” fully delivers. Inventive, funny, beautifully arranged and brilliantly performed. I highly recommend it! Come for a visit with the delightfully charming and utterly terrifying Queen Mab and her wickedly fun agenda!
What I didn't like
It’s a perfect Fringe show!
My overall impression
“Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower” is absolutely the kind of show one would expect to see at Fringe. A funny, slightly weird, mesmerising and gorgeously performed musical about Queen Mab and her yearning to be wed. The intoxicating Elise Dewberry, (Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc.) and her fabulous voice star in this hilarious story about the mythological creature, Queen Mab, queen of the fairies. Mischievous and mostly benevolent, she is the dream-bringer to men and the wife of fairy king Oberon. Here we meet her pre-marriage of course, and hell bent on a union with a suitor.
The audience has been summoned under pain of death to attend her and we are held captive as she sings her way through a truly brilliant performance. Having literally just flown in that day from England, the land of the fairies, although not by the use of my own wings, I was perhaps primed for enchantment. But I was hardly the only one in the theatre as entranced. The show is produced by the phenomenal New Musical Inc. who’s members have been producing musical theatre for over forty years. Not too shoddy! I knew this before the show, but I was still thoroughly impressed by this wonderful show.
