Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 Mame Dennis must be up there in the Bawdy Broads Afterlife laughing with delight at the lengthy run her nephew’s tales of her have had. Patrick Dennis became an overnight sensation when his memoir Auntie Mame was first published in 1955. Considered risqué at the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2002 Even though Black Sheep was an imperfect play, it was intriguing enough that I jumped at the chance to see a local production of another play by Lee Blessing, Eleemosynary. Since this one boasted an all-female cast I was assured that no wet, naked, dead men…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 Bad. Awful. Ouch! Brandon and I left at intermission. Brandon said that the humor was “rude” even for his rowdy 13-year-old male ears. Actually, the humor was less bawdy than what I heard at the Sophie Tucker show at the Mac-Haydn , and there were no naked men like…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2002. I had occasion to speak to one of my high school English teachers last weekend, and I upbraided her for failing to introduce me to Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays. I remember distinctly taking a semester-long course on Shakespeare’s history plays in my junior…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 If you have not been to the Theater Barn yet this season, or if (shame on you!) you have never darkened its doors at all, this is the show that you must buy tickets for NOW! You will start having fun from the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 This is a good news/bad news review. The good news is that there is a lot to like in the production of “Can-Can” currently running at the Theater Barn. I had fun and I bet you will too. But there are some things…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 This is just a fabulous show. It looks and sounds like nothing I have seen at the theatre in many a day. It is billed as a “jam-rock musical” but it is really a rock opera, and it comes equipped with all the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2002 Oh dear, oh dear! How to delicately put this…? Mr. Richard Smithies, co-owner and director of the Greenwoods Theatre at Norfolk, has seen fit to star himself in the current production of A Private Buffoon, a one-man musical focusing on the professional life of Sir W.S.…
