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…
REVIEW: “Naughty Marietta” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2002 This is one of the best shows I have ever seen at the Mac-Haydn. It looks great, it…
REVIEW: “South Pacific” at the Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 Mac-Haydn is off to a good start this season with a second fine musical production – this time…