REVIEW: “The Secret Garden” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2003 Like millions of young girls, Frances Hodgson Burnett was one of my favorite authors when I was growing up. I…
REVIEW: “Hello, Dolly!” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2003 The Mac-Haydn is offering up a cheerful, likeable, and oddly uneven production of Hello Dolly! Basically, the leading ladies are…
REVIEW: “Always…Patsy Cline” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2003 Your curmudgeonly critic confesses that she is not a country music fan, nor is she a fan of…
REVIEW: “Sugar Babies” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2003 WOW! Wowie-wow-wow! Whatta show! What a load of silly fun! Go! Buy tickets NOW, I tell you! There…
REVIEW: “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2003 Let’s get this out of the way right up front. This is a musical about a whorehouse. If…
REVIEW: “Smokey Joe’s Café” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2003 This is one of those head-scratchers. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote tons of fabulous rock ‘n’ roll…
REVIEW: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2003 My fourteen-year-old son Brandon was my date last Thursday for the opening of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at…
REVIEW: “Oklahoma!” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 A young woman is living alone with her aunt on a farm in the Oklahoma territory just before…