Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 The Mac-Haydn opened their 1999 season with “The Music Man” – a rousing, old-fashioned show about a town learning to believe in itself through outside forces. This was a great success. And I am pleased to say that they are closing the season…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 The only sure thing about the existing version of “Anything Goes” is that Cole Porter wrote the music and lyrics. He didn’t write all of them for the original “Anything Goes” which opened in Broadway in 1934, but he did write them. Beyond…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Come on and meetThose dancing feet.On the avenueI’m takin’ you to –42nd street!”– Al Dubin This is it. The Mac-Haydn has pulled out all the stops and come up with an all singing, all dancing extravaganza. Pack up grandma, grandpa and the kiddies…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 1999 I am sorry I have not been able to attend more of Mass MoCA’s Animation Festival and other events this summer. Only “Monsters of Grace” really approached being theatre. And only the Laurie Macleod dance performance offered more than one performance, but a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 What a gosh-darned silly show this is! In case you haven’t heard “Off The Hook” – playing at Oldcastle through September 4th – is a wacky broad farce, broadly directed by Russell Kaplan. Authors Allen Lewis Rickman and Karl Tiedemann claim they “started…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “November”, which opened belatedly at Oldcastle on Tuesday, is a new play by a playwright who identifies himself only as J Ranelli. I assume he is a he because that is how Oldcastle referred to him in their press release, but often when…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 Generally considered to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, “The Tempest” is neither comedy nor tragedy, romance nor history. It is a show of magic and love, revenge and forgiveness, natural and supernatural, coincidence and manipulation. Prospero’s brother Antonio has usurped him…
by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live”– William Shakespeare, “King Richard II Talk about the bug biting! In 1990 Mark Scipione was a student at Taconic High School in Pittsfield who took part in one Shakespeare & Company production and started down…
