New York Musical Theatre Festival – I Thee Wed “Marrying Meg”
by Karen Tortora-Lee on October 6, 2009
If Marrying Meg was a book, it would lay solidly in your lap, with a cover made of fine tooled leather, each page edged in gold leaf. Fairy dust would shimmer up out of it as you turned each page and sank deeper and deeper into this amazing world that Mark Robertson (book, lyrics and music) created. But Marrying Meg is, thankfully, more than a book, and more than a play, even. It is a charming, magical, amazing musical that was crafted by a man who has a rare gift – the ability to write a new musical that has the chops of an old musical, but all the energy, nuance and vitality of a brand new musical. The songs are fresh, the lyrics are delightfully robust – clever enough to give your ear a treat without being so verbose that you can’t follow the meaning.
