Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2005 In 1999, Time Magazine looked back over the entire 20th century, a century that saw the American musical take shape, and named Rodgers and Hammerstein’s second collaboration Carousel the Best Musical of the Century! High praise indeed. Rodgers and Hammerstein themselves liked Carousel the best of all…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2005 Every year, usually early in the season, the Mac-Haydn treats local audiences to a gem from the canon of English operetta. These are memorable because, with the exception of a couple of the Savoy operas, operetta is seldom heard these days. In its…
by Gail M. Burns, June, 2005. In years to come, when someone asks me about The Ice Glen, I think that I will tell them that I saw it on a crisp fall day, when the scenery outside of the Spring Lawn mansion was ablaze with color and the geese could…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 Much to my surprise and delight, I was invited to Caffè Lena on May 1st to see and review humorist Dirck Toll in the world premiere of his satirical/theatrical monologue entitled Irregular Opposition. Dirck Toll bills himself as a humorist. A Schenectady resident, he has performed…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 Wowie-wow-wow! Whadda show! All singing, all dancing. Everyone and everything in the Cohoes Music Hall production of Anything Goes looks and sounds just great. This current retooling of the 1934 Cole Porter opus, which I am assuming is the 1987 Broadway version with a revised…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 I have always enjoyed the fact that we use the archaic “wright” when referring to someone one crafts plays. Once you have written a play it is not just something that you wrote, it is something that you wrought. I find five definitions…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 Let’s get things straight at the outset:1. Nuncrackers is a Nunsense show.2. Theatre critics hate Nunsense shows and I am a theatre critic.3. Nunsense shows are completely “critic-proof.” Critics hate ‘em and audiences love ‘em. Some might argue that item three above proves that critics are woefully out of touch with…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April, 2005 Apparently, I was in attendance at a “Glittering Opening Night”! I wish someone had told me or I might have worn something better than the olive green suit I wore to work. Frankly, while I very much enjoyed being a part of the…
