REVIEW: “Funny Girl” at the Mac-Haydn
by Roseann Cane A small number of American musicals seem inseparable from the actors who originated the lead roles. For devotees of musical theater, Yul…
REVIEW: “Damn Yankees” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Barbara Waldinger The Mac-Haydn Theatre, celebrated for its spectacular musical revivals, opened its 50th season with the Tony-award winning Damn Yankees. The performance delivered…
REVIEW: Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 As I was leaving the Mac-Haydn after seeing their first public performance of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast I observed…
REVIEW: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 What’s brightly colored, lots of fun, and chock-full of wonderful singing and dazzling dancing? Joseph and the Amazing…
REVIEW: “Phantom” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 This is NOT Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. I mean that both ways – it isn’t the…
REVIEW: “The Pajama Game” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 The Pajama Game is one of those ho-hum musicals from the 1950’s, but it had its 50th anniversary in…
REVIEW: “110 in the Shade” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2007 110 in the Shade is a little gem of a musical written by those masters of little musical gems…
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…