REVIEW: “The Full Monty” at The Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 When the six bathrobe-clad leading men of the Theater Barn’s production of The Full Monty came out to take their curtain call, the audience as a body leapt to their feet cheering. Not this business where one or two people stand and then a couple…

REVIEW: “Lucky Stiff” at The Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 What a delightful little gem of a musical! Lucky Stiff, currently being given a luminous production at the Theater Barn, was the first musical from the Tony award-winning team of Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music) who went on to fame…

REVIEW: Bakerloo Theatre Project Presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 I confess to being concerned when I first saw the publicity stills for the Bakerloo Theatre Project’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”. They featured Sarah Murphy in costume as Cobweb looking like a Threepenny whore in Converse hi-tops. I am a big…

REVIEW: “Elegies: A Song Cycle” at Barrington Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that at 4:45 pm on Sunday, August 14, when the press, the composer-lyricist, and several distinguished guests had been assembled at the Mahaiwe Theatre in Great Barrington for the official 5 pm…

REVIEW: “Hair” at Barrington Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 RUN EXTENDED IN PITTSFIELD AUGUST 17-21 ! “Hair simply could not have existed ten years ago, and it is conceivable that it could mystify audiences ten years from now, but it does catch, and quite successfully, one of the many moods and aspects of…

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