Glorious! Reviews
Stage Scene LA- Recommended
"...Having just won a 2013-2014 Theatre Company Of The Year Scenie for five fabulous productions in a row, International City Theatre scores once again-and quite gloriously so-with Glorious!"
StageHappenings.com- Recommended
"...Richard Israel's direction keeps the stage lively, and the action (such as it is) clear. Costumer, Kim DeShazo expresses just the right touch of humor and whimsy in her increasingly outrageous designs for Florence and Dorothy's gowns. But the real reason to race down to International City Theatre before November 2nd is to see Eileen Barnett's brave, vibrant and utterly endearing performance."
OC Register- Recommended
..As light as meringue and just as delectable, Israel's staging transcends these flaws. Barnett's Florence is disarming and delightfully loopy (and much younger than was Jenkins in 1944). Crooke's St. Clair is a classic underachiever – an unemployed actor who pretends to be British and would rather tipple than trod the boards."
Thespian Thoughts- Somewhat Recommended
"...The bad singing is handled better than the good jokes and if all the performers could, in the rest of the run, go as over the top as the funny script seems to calls for, then Glorious! might yet be a glorious comic experience."
Press-Telegram- Somewhat Recommended
"...But in "Glorious!," now playing at International City Theatre in Long Beach, her story doesn't translate well on stage. Peter Quilter's play - directed by Robert Israel and starring Eileen Barnett as Jenkins - is funny, yes, and Barnett sings with Jenkins-like swoops and a total inability to make music (which has got to be extraordinarily hard), but the real story isn't there."
Broadway World- Recommended
"...Needless to say, Quilter provides us with abundant laughs that will be appreciated especially by a gay audience, who love hearing words/phrases like – queens and friends of Dorothy. One interesting note which I found curiously delicious was the fact that Jenkins insisted on interviewing every member of her audience before they were permitted to buy a ticket. There is also one delightfully written surprise scene, a funeral, but I will not divulge who dies. I love unpredictability and you must go and see the play for yourselves."