Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2006 Last August, as a special treat, I took my then-sixteen-year-old son Brandon to New York to see Monty Python’s Spamalot. At intermission I turned to him and, indicating the 1,519 or so members of the unwashed masses with whom I was forced to share…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2006 “The joint is jumpin’,It’s really jumpin’,Come in cats an’ check your hats,I mean this joint is jumpin’.The piano’s thumpin’,The dancers bumpin’.This here spot is more than hot,In fact the joint is jumpin’”– Andy Razaf and J. C. Johnson I once had the fun…
by Gail M. Burns, January 2006 If you have never seen Dirck Toll, and there are probably more of you who haven’t than who have, he is a humor writer and performance artist who writes and performs his own material in one-man shows around the region. He does not “tell jokes”…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2006 “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – Sir James M. Barrie It is this adventure, or at least the very beginnings of it, that Sutton Vane (1888-1963) explores in his 1923 play Outward Bound. That his vision is dated and very, very…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2006 For all her faults, our nation is an amazing place, and the story of her founding is a gripping one. 1776 the Tony award-winning 1969 musical by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone does as good a job as is possible in telescoping the events in…
