Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2008 Normally I make note of especially funny or poignant lines from a show to mention in my review, but John Rando’s production of A Flea In Her Ear moves so rapidly and the laughs come so quickly one on the heels of the other, that…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 “What are you afraid of?” In the case of the characters presented in See Rock City and Other Destinations by Adam Mathias (book and lyrics) and Brad Alexander (music) the answers all have to do with personal relationships. These people are afraid to move or…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 “I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”– Noel Coward, “Private Lives” 1929 Certainly Noel Coward (1899-1973) wasn’t what was considered “normal” in his private life. A closeted gay man, as one pretty much had to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 I don’t know too much about Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), other than she was an peculiar looking woman married to one president (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)) and related to another (Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, was her uncle), who was greatly admired for her own work…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008. “Oh the worms crawl inAnd the worms crawl outAnd the worms play pinochleOn your snout.” It ain’t easy being dead. In addition to the above mentioned indignities, you rarely get invited to parties and your children never call. Neither McCain nor Obama is…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 If you were born before 1955, you will just love Beehive. I base this on the fact that everyone in that age group in the audience I attended with had a great time, and my friend (born in 1958) and I (born in 1957)…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 Let me state right up front that I know NOTHING about opera. While they have the same roots and opera is very theatrical, it is not theatre. There are big differences between what we now call opera and what Variety calls “Legit” theatre.…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 “For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, scene iii I didn’t want to go and see this production of Romeo and Juliet at Main Street Stage because the company had made…
