Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower

A NoHo Arts theatre review of Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower, starring Elise Dewsberrybook, lyrics by Scott Guy, music by Jacques Offenbach and additional music by Max Bruch, Michele Esposito and Ken Neufeld at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023.

[NoHo Arts District, CA] – A NoHo Arts theatre review of Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower, starring Elise Dewsberrybook, lyrics by Scott Guy, music by Jacques Offenbach and additional music by Max Bruch, Michele Esposito and Ken Neufeld at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023.

The Hollywood Fringe is a platform for the most magical, quirky and unique theatre. It’s built for it in fact. Short shows, black box spaces, big crowds hopping from one performance to another, high on the event itself and eager to be wowed, or shocked or most importantly, to be entertained.

Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower is absolutely the kind of show one would expect to see at Fringe. A funny, slightly weird, mesmerizing 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. 

A NoHo Arts theatre review of Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower, starring Elise Dewsberrybook, lyrics by Scott Guy, music by Jacques Offenbach and additional music by Max Bruch, Michele Esposito and Ken Neufeld at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023.

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 Musicals Inc. whose members have been producing musical theatre for over 40 years. Not too shoddy! I knew this before the show, but I was still thoroughly impressed by this wonderful show.  

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!

When:

Saturday, June 17 @ 7:00 p.m. 

Tuesday, June 20 @ 8:00 p.m. 

Saturday, June 24 @ 1:00 p.m.

Tickets:

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/9612

Where:

The Broadwater (Second Stage)
6320 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038

More Info:

https://www.writingmusicaltheatre.com/ | https://nmi.org/