Here is a conundrum: while I laughed a lot at “Lounge-Zilla!” I didn’t actually have fun. The curtain call was one of those “Phew! Glad that’s over” moments. And the show was barely an hour long. I think perhaps I am: A) too old (younger members of the audience seemed…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 If you are now or have ever been a teen-aged girl, you must go and see So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz! which has only two more performances at the Daniels Arts Center on the Simon’s Rock campus as part of the 2007 Berkshire Fringe Festival. If you…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 I want to make it clear that this commentary is based on a one-night-only performance of these three short plays. While not staged readings, these were also not full productions, and no admission was charged. What I saw were clearly works in progress…
by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Long before I started officially reviewing BSC shows here on GailSez.com, I used to save up my pennies and make the hour and fifteen minute one-way drive down to Sheffield to see the Barrington Stage musicals. Not only were they professionally presented, but there…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 I have to confess that, having not done my customary research on Love! Valour! Compassion! before attending the performance, I was not prepared for three and a half hours of naked men. I say that right off the bat in order to prepare you, because…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 I must begin this review by making it very clear that, due to a very busy schedule, I attended the full dress rehearsal of this production. As a result, there was no audience and the set was not finished. Regular readers know that…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 The Pajama Game is one of those ho-hum musicals from the 1950’s, but it had its 50th anniversary in 2004, followed by the inevitable Broadway revival in 2006. Under the star-power of sex-symbol crooner Harry Connick, Jr. it toddled off with the Tony for…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 Unlike Lou Grant, I like a woman with spunk. And that is the one thing that saves Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Oklahoma! from being nothing but a load of sugary sweetness for me – the genuine spunk of the three leading ladies: Laurey, Ado Annie,…
