“Glover is a fireball… prowls the stage like a gymnast… shines brightly”

Glover is a fireball.  She prowls the stage like a gymnast, and in her own show-stopper, "I'm Hard to Satisfy," Glover shines brightly. 

“The evening's reigning champ was Glover… hard to forget”

The evening's reigning champ was Glover. In the show's most jaw-dropping vocal stunt, she transforms from a willowy young woman who often sounds like a soprano into a credible Louis Armstrong, with his patented growl. Her Armstrong lasts only a minute or two, but it's hard to forget.   
Yet for most of the show, Glover is a lithe, girlish presence who looks more strikingly like a model than the young Hunter ever did in photographs.

“Glover can be grotesquely comic one minute, ethereally beautiful the next… sings and dances with panache”

The prodigiously talented Montego Glover tackles the younger Alberta, as well as a galaxy of other characters—most outrageously and memorably Louis Armstrong.  Glover can be grotesquely comic one minute, ethereally beautiful the next. And throughout it all, she sings and dances with panache.

“It’s the talents of Montego Glover that maneuver the story in places it couldn’t otherwise go”

It’s the talents of Montego Glover that maneuver the story in places it couldn’t otherwise go…from a high pitched girl to a raspy voice and physically twitchy nightclub owner, and when she impersonates Louis Armstrong you can see to what extremes she can take her gift of performance art.