REVIEW: “La Cage Aux Folles” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 A while back there was a cartoon in the New Yorker entitled “The Gay Agenda” that depicted a…
“Liberace: The Legend Lives” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 The Mac-Haydn has already distributed a press release entitled “Liberace Wins Audience Raves”. I was in that audience and…
REVIEW: “42nd Street” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 If you are a tap dance junkie looking for your next fix now that Savion Glover has departed…
REVIEW: “Follies” at Barrington Stage Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2005 I just loved the Barrington Stage Company production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies which is flawlessly cast and energetically performed. But…
REVIEW: “Carousel” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
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…
REVIEW: “The Student Prince” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
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…
REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Cohoes Music Hall
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…
REVIEW: “Nuncrackers” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
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…