San Francisco Chronicle: "Victor/Victoria belongs, first and forever, to Julie Andrews. But it doesn't take long for Jennifer Allen, starring in the American Musical Theatre of San Jose's gamely spirited revival of the problem-plagued 1995 musical (based on the 1982 film), to nudge Andrews from the mind.

"Allen may bear a passing resemblance to Andrews at the start, when she turns up as an opera-singing redhead down to her last centime in 1930s Paris. Once her new gay friend Toddy (Lee Roy Reams) persuades her to trade in her identity as Victoria for Victor, and thus make her name as a man impersonating women, Allen switches into a high-powered gear of her own.

"Her voice has a gutsy, harsh edge that seems right for someone pulling off a stunt like this -- a woman playing a man playing women. In her first nightclub number as Victor, composer Henry Mancini's and lyricist Leslie Bricusse's suave and steamy 'Le Jazz Hot,' Allen looks like some exotic muscular bird in the dense parti-colored fringe of Broadway costume designer Willa Kim's flapper concoction.

"As it gets rolling, in a fleet first act, Victor/Victoria is giddy, infectious fun. Allen steps firmly on the gas."