Every February at about this time I wonder how the Burns Park Players will manage to top their previous year’s musical offering. And every year I leave impressed. “Once Upon a Mattress,” the group’s musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea,” which opened Friday ...
Fortunately, Queen Aggravain—one of the lead characters in the stage musical “Once Upon a Mattress,” now being staged by the Burns Park Players—isn’t in charge of choosing a director for BPP shows. For if she was, she’d likely apply the method she uses to find a wife for her son, ...
Every year I marvel at how The Burns Park Players manages to give around 100 children, grades 1-5, their share of stage time in the Ann Arbor neighborhood’s annual musical. This year I was especially curious, given that the show, “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” set in ...
If you were brainstorming stage musicals that would be a natural fit for working in a lot of young people, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” probably wouldn’t make the list. Yet the show is nonetheless this year’s choice for the Burns Park Players, and director Mike Mosallam ...
Anyone looking for an upbeat musical with plenty of showbiz razzle-dazzle will find the Burns Park Players’ production of “Guys and Dolls” pretty much a sure thing. Cast members from the Burns Park Players production of "Guys and Dolls." The 1950s-era show about 2 gamblers, the women who love them ...
The Burns Park Players will be holding auditions for their 27th annual show on October 12 and 13, 2009 from 7-10pm at Tappan Auditorium. This year's production is Guys and Dolls. Mike Mosallam returns as director for the Players after several years in New York. He is considering a few ...
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