Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 I was 13 years old when “Company” opened on Broadway in 1970. In my mind, it was the musical that established Stephen Sondheim as STEPHEN SONDHEIM, although I am well aware that he had had an illustrious career before that. It was a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2000 I drove to Weston to see “Saturday Night” because I could. There are not many places in the world where you can see five* Sondheim productions in the course of two months. Having seen the Barrington Stage production of “Company”, and with plans to see the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2000 Hoosick Falls Central School did “Little Shop” as their spring musical, and, of course, my younger son Brandon had to go and see it. So far the longest trip we have taken to see a production of “Little Shop” (we have seen four)…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 My sons, ages 11 and 17, and I were in New York City overnight visiting family and looking at New York University for my older son, and so a visit to the theatre was de riguer. The boys were lobbying for going to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 I am keenly aware that this is a high school production and that tender young egos are at stake here, and so I will heed the good advice of Thumper’s father: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.” And…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 1999 They just don’t get it. It is a pity, because “Little Shop of Horrors” is a perfectly constructed small-scale musical, and it has legions of devoted fans – myself included. But the Williams students who have mounted the current production on the AMT…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 1999 I hate driving in cities. I grew up in New York City and so I know not only the hazards of vehicular traffic in a concrete jungle, but I know how much faster it is to walk or take the subway. Whenever I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 1999 I could rant and rave and hurt a lot of people’s feelings. Or I could keep sum this up in one sentence: This is an amateur production of “Side by Side by Sondheim”. That is really all you need to know. If you…
