REVIEW: “Gigi” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 When you say the name Gigi people usually have rapturous responses linked directly to their memories of the 1958 musical…
REVIEW: “Guys and Dolls” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 This production is all about the Shook sisters – Karla and Kelly – who play Miss Sarah Brown…
REVIEW: “Cats” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 My little brown cat Mary is the epitome of style over substance. I believe she is constituted thusly:5%…
REVIEW: “Funny Girl” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 Somehow, I had managed to live 49.5 years without paying much attention to Funny Girl. I had never seen…
REVIEW: “Fiddler on the Roof” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2006 I was once turned down for a desk job because I was “not ethnic enough.” Anyone with two…
REVIEW: “Brigadoon” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 I have a soft spot in my heart for Brigadoon for two reasons. First, I am married to Robert Burns…
REVIEW: “La Cage Aux Folles” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 A while back there was a cartoon in the New Yorker entitled “The Gay Agenda” that depicted a…
REVIEW: “Barnum” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) was 60 years old when Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus made…