Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 This is NOT the best of all possible Candides. If all of my colleagues have also led with this all-too-obvious remark, I apologize, but I make it a policy not to read any other reviews before I write my own, and this is the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2007 But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas Time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2006 People who know me will tell you that I am hardly Scrooge-like in my day-to-day life. But when it comes to the barrage of annual productions based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, I am inevitably the sour-faced person on the aisle muttering “Bah,…
