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: “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…
REVIEW: “Mame” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 Mame Dennis must be up there in the Bawdy Broads Afterlife laughing with delight at the lengthy run…
REVIEW: “Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2002 The last time I saw an (almost) one woman show about Sophie Tucker, I wrote the following: “Whenever…
REVIEW: “Crazy for You” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2002 I am about to launch in to a scintillating dissertation of the creative history of Crazy For You, so…