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…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2006 Fabulous! Wonderful! Excellent! Go! That was an easy review to write. But I will elaborate, for my own enjoyment in reliving the fun as well as to encourage you to do the only sensible thing and buy tickets NOW! I was under the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2006 “The joint is jumpin’,It’s really jumpin’,Come in cats an’ check your hats,I mean this joint is jumpin’.The piano’s thumpin’,The dancers bumpin’.This here spot is more than hot,In fact the joint is jumpin’”– Andy Razaf and J. C. Johnson I once had the fun…
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 Harold Gray’s legendary comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. It was a fun little show, and the author/director taught me a lot about Gray and the strip’s…
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 often called the perfect musical. While remaining extremely faithful to its roots, the music and dance seem to spring effortless from the script. In this…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2005 After closing their 2004-2005 season with a blockbuster musical directed and choreographed by Tralen Doler, and so it seemed a sensible thing to open the 2005-2006 season with the same. I predict that this one will be as big a hit as the…
