Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2004 This piece of fluff is created by Ted Swindley, mastermind behind Always…Patsy Cline and several other revue-type shows on country themes. I am already on record as stating that I am not a country music fan, and I just don’t understand the popularity of these…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 And now, ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of announcing that a star is born! I have been saying all season that Renée Brna is star material, and here in Show Boat, cast in the leading role of Magnolia, she finally gets her…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 “To thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare In this day and age too many of us are under the ad-induced delusion that the only self worth being true to is a perfect one. We have no problem letting down the old,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 Swing! is the kind of show that I am on record as disliking. It is all song and dance – no script, no plot. I just panned Honky Tonk Angels last week as being a bad example of this mindless genre. But I am happy to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2004 Here’s the good news and the bad news, all in one sentence. The Theater Barn opened its 2004 season with a polished production of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-award winning play ART. The good news is that The Theater Barn is back for a 21st season…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 Gypsy is a great big, old-fashioned musical. Big is the operative word here. It calls for a big cast and endless scenery and costume changes as it spans a couple of decades and tries to tell the interlocking stories of several people’s lives. Someone…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 You must excuse me because I know way too much about The Pirates of Penzance. I have known every note of the score since I was eleven years old and appeared in the policeman’s chorus as a pathetically adolescent member of the constabulary. Tarantara.…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 Living with Lady Macbeth is the sort of play written for young actors to perform for an audience of their peers. And, as luck would have it, this is the play the Drury Drama Team has selected to take to the 11th Annual International Thespian Festival in Lincoln,…
