REVIEW: “Dirty Blonde” at The Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2002 If you take a close look at Mae West (1893-1980), you will see that she is nothing that you expect her to be. She wasn’t really blonde, she wasn’t really busty, and she wasn’t really curvy (heavy corset use there). She was kind…

REVIEW: “Little Me” at The Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 In 1962 Sid Ceasar was the reigning King of America Comics. He made a triumphant return to the Broadway stage in “Little Me” – a musical tailor-made for him by a hand-picked creative team. Neil Simon wrote the book, Cy Coleman wrote the…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1998 Gee, it seemed like such a good idea. The young, energetic, talented company at the Theater Barn staging “Grease”. One of my pet peeves with “Grease” is watching a bunch of 30-somethings hop around pretending to be teenagers. There was a guarantee that…