Talkin' Broadway: "Allen drives the show with her commanding performance; she's meticulously concocted a character as you're likely to find in a Broadway musical today. Simultaneously looking like she just stepped out of The Stepford Wives and seeming like the woman next door, Allen turns an ever-so-slight turn of a can of cranberry sauce into a showstopping comic event, and signals a complete psychological breakdown with nothing more than a quavering cheek. And her knockout voice is equally as suited to delivering a quasi-religious hymn to her idol as it is to raising the rafters with a 'Rose's Turn'-style 11-o'clock number."