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,…
Comments by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 “No matter how we rehearse our intention, the performance has its own accidents.” – M.C. Richards Every time you go to the theatre you have a unique experience. Even in a show with a carefully rehearsed script each performance is its own creature,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Mere hours before leaving to see the Mill City production of “Pippin” I wrote the following:“The point of community theatre is not present slick professional perfection, but to give average men and women a chance to experience the joy of performing great theatre…
by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 The News in Revue is a political satire troupe who have been performing regularly in the Berkshires since 1994. The front cover of their program identifies them as “[The] New York Times Meets Saturday Night Live, The Musical” and that is a fairly accurate description. Under…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain is a finely tuned character study of two families – the Janeways: Edmund “Ned,” his wife Lina and their children Nan and Walker; and the Wexlers: Theo, Margaret, and their son Philip “Pip.” The first group we meet are…
