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: “Guys and Dolls” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 This production is all about the Shook sisters – Karla and Kelly – who play Miss Sarah Brown…
REVIEW: “Fiddler on the Roof” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2006 I was once turned down for a desk job because I was “not ethnic enough.” Anyone with two…
REVIEW: “Annie” at the Cohoes Music Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2005 Exactly thirty years ago this month I was stage managing a workshop production of a musical based on…
REVIEW: “My Fair Lady” at the Cohoes Music Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1914 play Pygmalion and Gabriel Pascal’s 1938 film of the same, is…
REVIEW: “Brigadoon” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 I have a soft spot in my heart for Brigadoon for two reasons. First, I am married to Robert Burns…
REVIEW: “La Cage Aux Folles” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 A while back there was a cartoon in the New Yorker entitled “The Gay Agenda” that depicted a…
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…