REVIEW: “Oklahoma!” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Roseann Cane The first musical written by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Oklahoma! opened on Broadway on March 31,1943. An…
REVIEW: “Oklahoma!” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 Unlike Lou Grant, I like a woman with spunk. And that is the one thing that saves Rodgers…
REVIEW: “South Pacific” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2006 When I go to see an oft-produced classic like South Pacific I ask myself two questions: Does it effectively tell…
REVIEW: “South Pacific” at Park Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 Now celebrating its 17th season, Park Playhouse presents one big musical every summer outdoors on a large stage…
REVIEW: “Carousel” at The Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2005 In 1999, Time Magazine looked back over the entire 20th century, a century that saw the American musical…
REVIEW: “Pal Joey” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2005 I was so excited to see Pal Joey on the Ghent Playhouse schedule this season. This 1940 Rodgers and Hart…
REVIEW: “The King and I” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 I knew that I had reviewed a previous production of The King and I at the Mac-Haydn many years ago,…
REVIEW: “Beguiled Again” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 Okay, this is another one of those revues, the kind I usually don’t like. The formula is simple,…