“Utterly winning… Glover is an indefatigable, puckish TiMoune”
Montego Glover as TiMoune offers a heartfelt performance, filled with earthiness and joy. Her portrayal of the childlike native girl is utterly winning, and for the first time the character of TiMoune seemed brave rather than merely stupid when she moves heaven and earth in the name of love. Montego Glover is an indefatigable, puckish TiMoune.
“Glover punches up TiMoune’s idiosyncrasies with her coltish movements and wide-eyed quicksilver smiles… adds a bracing jolt of drama”
Montego Glover punches up TiMoune’s idiosyncrasies with her coltish movements and wide-eyed quicksilver smiles suggesting a shy charisma that might indeed seduce a haughty aristocrat. Her dancing is confident, and her crouching, shimmying solo in a pivotal number, “The Ball,” adds a bracing jolt of drama.