Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 Same Time, Next Year is the first of the four shows the Theater Barn will present during their 25th anniversary season that were selected based on audience surveys. Same Time… is a popular show all over the world, but I would bet that many of the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 I am a pretty smart cookie. Not too much escapes me, particularly when I am sitting in the theatre, but for the life of me I cannot tell you the central joke of “How the Other Half Loves.” I like Alan Ayckbourn. I…
by Gail M. Burns, May 2008 A man tells a story over and over so many times he becomes the story. In that way, he is immortal.– Daniel Wallace, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (1928 – 2002), born Lothar Berfelde, was a man with many stories.…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2008 “And the world will be better for thisThat one man, scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable star” – Joe Darion Lord, how I loved the Original Broadway Cast album of Man of La Mancha. I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2008 Throughout my childhood, my family made the two hour drive between our homes in New York City and northwestern Connecticut every weekend. My parents never forgot the time when I was about three, that I started to tell them a story as we…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2008 There is a debate about which is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatest work – Carousel or South Pacific. I lean towards saying that South Pacific is the better overall show, but Carousel contains their greatest music and lyrics. If you go to the production of Carousel currently running at the Cohoes Music Hall…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2008 Alas, I must inform you that the title is the funniest part of this “satirical revue.” Frankly, when you give a show a title involving the words “brain death” and “expiring minds” you better be pretty damned sure its hilarious or you are…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2008 I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Mill City Productions has a lovely new home in Western Gateway Heritage State Park. Unfortunately that is also the bad news for its first production there, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. The new space…
