Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 This is the third production of the stage musical of The Full Monty that I have seen – the second I have reviewed – and until I saw this mounting at the Cohoes Musical Hall I have been a staunch defender of the show as…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 Some old musicals are just that – old. But The Music Man is one of that handful of shows that is always fresh and fun. Written in the 1950’s but set in an amorphous and idealized 1912 (some of the topical references in the show…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2006 On the way over the mountains to Troy my eleven-year-old nephew regaled me with tales of why his life was terrible. He had a good litany going and to listen to him his life was indeed nigh on to unbearable. It was amazing…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 Ragtime is an amazing musical. You may never have heard of it or may have glanced at the title and dismissed it as one more revue-sical of historic music, but trust me, it is one of the great musicals of the 20th century and…
