“Hilariously portrayed… tackles with fervor”

“Her rival, Eileen Evergreen is hilariously portrayed by Eryn LeCroy whose Eliza Doolittle here so delighted me. This is a very different sort of role and to my surprise and delight she tackles Eileen with equal fervor and produces a performance that makes me forget her previous appearance only two weeks ago. Brava!”

— J. Peter Bergman

“Lyrical voice… makes the show literally flame"

“Eryn LeCroy’s lyrical voice gives a new, or perhaps renewed, beauty to Eliza’s music. She is far and away the finest performer I’ve seen in this role in well over a decade and if there isn’t a major career waiting for this woman I will be very surprised.

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While the entire cast in this production is marvelous the show, like the play on which it is based, relies on the chemistry of the male and female lead. I saw Alec McCowan and Diana Rigg in London in the non-musical and their chemistry was so magical I saw the play twice in the same day. At the Mac the chemistry between Hardy and LeCroy is palpable. They spark one another. Their double-level attraction/disdain makes the show literally flame. They are so good together that it is tempting to imagine them as Petruccio and Kate or even as Adam and Eve in “The Apple Tree”. Everything he does affects her in more than one way and every word she utters grabs him in the nether region and shakes him just a bit. With the two of them on stage the plays nearly three hour length seemed much too short a time.”

— J. Peter Bergman