Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 You know you are in for it when the third person credited on the program is the Lamentation Director. Shakespeare charges King Richard III of England (lived 1452-1485, reigned 1483-1485) with the murder of most of the House of York on his way…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 “What may this meanThat thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,Making night hideous, and we fools of natureSo horridly to shake our dispositionWith thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?” – Hamlet, Act I, scene iv It…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 “West Side Story” is the only musical on this season’s Mac-Haydn roster not to have won the Tony Award for Best Musical. It lost in 1957 to “The Music Man”, which opened the Mac-Haydn’s 1999 season. Comparing those two shows is like comparing…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 I was so excited to see “Bells Are Ringing” on Oldcastle’s 1999 schedule. This happy 1956 musical with music by Jule Styne and book and lyrcis by Betty Comden and Adolph Green is not done nearly enough. I looked forward to Friday evening…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 Sometimes you find theatre in the strangest places. On Tuesday night I found it way at the back of the playing fields at Mt. Greylock Regional High School. It was an idyllic summer evening, still light throughout the 7 PM show, which ran…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Here you have playwright Orson Welles (“Citizen Kane”) adapting Herman Melville (“Moby Dick”) for the stage by way of William Shakespeare (“King Lear”). The results are everything you would expect – intense, brilliant, filled with human angst. The one thing “Moby Dick –…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 It is a dangerous proposition when the author, the director and the producer of a play are one and the same person. Richard Corley, who wears all those hats in the BTF Unicorn production of “Shoot The Piano Player” undoubtedly really loves the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 “Angels and ministers of grace defend us!” Hamlet cries when he first sees his father’s ghost in Act I, scene iv. When Robert Wilson, who came up with the visual concept for this 3-D digital opera, was touring in a one-man “Hamlet” he…
