REVIEW: “Bye Bye Broadway” at North Pointe Cultural Arts Center

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 Seeing the well received and lively opening night performance of Bye Bye Broadway at North Pointe last night took me back a quarter century or so to the summers when I used to write and direct my own original musicals. There is nothing so exciting,…

REVIEW: “Cabaret” at The Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 Grimy and lewd, disturbing and surreal, the Theater Barn has pulled out all the stops to present a chilling and entertaining production of Kander and Ebb’s 1966 masterpiece Cabaret. Not a show for the faint of heart, Cabaret boldly blends music and theatre to bring the…

REVIEW: “H. M. S. Pinafore” at the Ghent Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2004 “Never mind the why and whereforeLove can level ranks and therefore…”– W.S. Gilbert On the off chance that you have not seen, heard, or heard of H.M.S. Pinafore in the 126 years since it first opened in London in 1878, the idea that love levels…