REVIEW: “Gigi” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 When you say the name Gigi people usually have rapturous responses linked directly to their memories of the 1958 musical…
REVIEW: “Cats” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 My little brown cat Mary is the epitome of style over substance. I believe she is constituted thusly:5%…
REVIEW: “Forever Plaid” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2006 Did you know that Forever Plaid, a show with nary a dirty joke let alone a pretty girl or…
REVIEW: “Carousel” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2005 In 1999, Time Magazine looked back over the entire 20th century, a century that saw the American musical…
REVIEW: “Nuncrackers” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 Let’s get things straight at the outset:1. Nuncrackers is a Nunsense show.2. Theatre critics hate Nunsense shows and I am a theatre critic.3. Nunsense shows are…
REVIEW: “Big River” at the Cohoes Music Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2004 “NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral…
REVIEW: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2003 My fourteen-year-old son Brandon was my date last Thursday for the opening of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at…
REVIEW: “Oklahoma!” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 A young woman is living alone with her aunt on a farm in the Oklahoma territory just before…