by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 Calvin Berger is the Brady Bunch of musical comedy. I was twelve when Brady Bunch first came on the air. In real life I am a year young than Maureen McCormick (Marcia) and a year older than Eve Plumb (Jan). While I was never fooled into thinking the show…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Julie Jensen’s 2000 drama Two-Headed is not an easy play. It is not easy to perform and it is not easy to watch, but luckily the BTF has cast two of this region’s finest actresses – Corinna May and Diane Prusha – and the end…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is exactly the same enormous anti-establishment 1960’s melodrama that I remembered it to be. And I enjoyed it thoroughly. In an interview with a member of the BTF PR staff, playwright Dale Wasserman noted that he had only…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 The Capitol Steps have a decades-long national reputation for biting, hilarious political satire. I have wanted to see them live and in person for a long time, pondering each time I listed a regional appearance on GailSez.com whether I had the time and gas…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Being my curmudgeonly self, I was less than thrilled with the announcement that the Mac-Haydn would bring me “Christmas in July” with a production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. It is my opinion that we get way too much Chistmas when it IS Christmas,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One look at the press release for the current Mac-Haydn production of Thoroughly Modern Millie and I knew that this would be the Mac-Haydn at their best. While the theatre frequently gets in very talented young performers for a season or two, it is the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 I have been a big fan of the American playwright John Guare (1938- ) since I was a teenager. Like Shakespeare, Stoppard and Chekhov, he uses language in fascinating and intricate ways, which I enjoy. But like the other three writers I have…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The production of Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond currently running at Oldcastle is definitely feel-good summer theatre. There is nothing wrong with that. I personally had a very good time at the show, especially since Carleton Carpenter’s Norman Thayer reminded me very much of my…
