REVIEW: “Hello, Dolly!” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 Will I ever get out of the year 1890 this summer?? Carousel, Hello, Dolly!, and, obviously, Paris 1890, Unlaced are all set…
REVIEW: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 What’s brightly colored, lots of fun, and chock-full of wonderful singing and dazzling dancing? Joseph and the Amazing…
REVIEW: “Phantom” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 This is NOT Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. I mean that both ways – it isn’t the…
REVIEW: “Hairspray” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 THE PROLOGUE I feel like Emily Litella. You remember, that character Gilda Radner used to do on the…
REVIEW: “The Music Man” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 Some old musicals are just that – old. But The Music Man is one of that handful of shows that…
REVIEW: Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Being my curmudgeonly self, I was less than thrilled with the announcement that the Mac-Haydn would bring me…
REVIEW: “Thoroughly Modern Millie” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One look at the press release for the current Mac-Haydn production of Thoroughly Modern Millie and I knew that this…
REVIEW: “The Pajama Game” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 The Pajama Game is one of those ho-hum musicals from the 1950’s, but it had its 50th anniversary in…