Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 As the son of Mary Rodgers Guettel (Once Upon a Mattress) and the grandson of Richard Rodger, famous for his solo creations as well as his musical theatre collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, it would have been extraordinary if Adam…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 On the way up to Weston, my son and I got in an argument in the car about how many different productions we had seen of this show. But on the way home we agreed that, whoever was right about the number, we…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 In true Gilbertian fashion I will give this review two titles: Don’t Mess With My Mikado or Wha’ Happened?? I went to see The Mikado at the Weston Playhouse for fun, not as a theatre critic, but since it turned out to be one of the worst Mikados I’ve…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2003 As soon as I saw Ragtime announced on the Weston 2003 schedule, I knew it would be wonderful. Weston does just about everything well, but especially big musicals. I have fond memories of the productions of Most Happy Fella and Candide that I saw there, and so I booked…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2001 It is beyond me how anyone could not have a wonderful time and be thoroughly entertained by the Weston Playhouse production of The Pirates of Penzance, and yet I know that there are Gilbert and Sullivan purists out there who still deplore, 20 years later, what…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2000 I just love “The Threepenny Opera” but the only way I could sit through the nearly three hours of this production was to keep thinking about which nice Kurt Weill number was coming up next. There are people who should not direct Threepenny,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 This show is a surprise. The WTF announced that they were going to do it, and then that they weren’t doing it. Even the tickets were printed with the name of the other show they had announced before they changed their minds AGAIN…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2000 It is REALLY worth the drive to the Weston Playhouse to see Charles Ludlam’s “The Mystery of Irma Vep”. It is howlingly funny and bawdy and campy and silly, and it is beautifully staged. Now that I am no longer The Press, I…
