LA WEEKLY | Sandra Ross |
"Marilyn Anne Michaels, Les Feltmate and Ryan McGivern are pitch perfect in constructing a misunderstanding about a three-way." |
Chicago Sun-Times | Hedy Weiss |
"Anthropomorphism is key to David Greig's wholly captivating 'Magpie and the Cat,' directed by Amanda Delheimer and played with enormous charm by Marilyn Anne Michaels and Sean Kaplan. The cat and bird meet at a singles bar, engage in all the usual seduction rituals and end up in bed. Feathers fly before morning."
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Gay Chicago Magazine | Emily Lee |
"Marilyn Anne Michaels is a joy as Peggy Evans, one of Alan's many paramours. She creates some new sparks in a role we've seen many times before." |
Chicago Sun-Times | Mary Houlihan
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"And as the lovable but challenged ditsy blonde, Marilyn Anne Michaels seduces Buddy with a head massage you won't soon forget." |
Pioneer Press | Myrna Petlicki |
"Clad in a cutout dress, Marilyn Anne Michaels is all sex and seduction, slithering up and down a column in 'A Call From the Vatican,' but she too, registers the pain that Contini seems so capable of engendering in his women." |
Windy City Times | Gregg Shapiro
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"Marilyn Anne Michaels's Carla develops from trashy ('A Call from The Vatican') to transcendent ('Simple') over the course of the show." |
Gay Chicago Magazine | Tim Sauer
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"Marilyn Anne Michaels is cute and adorable as the hottie Carla. She slinks about the stage in her lace body stocking with just the right amount of brass and feminine sexuality. Anne Michaels handles one of the show's broadest characters adroitly." |
Chicago Reader | Mary Shen Barnidge
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"Anchoring Arthur Kopit's minimal book is James Finnerty as the filmmaker on the verge of a Freudian burnout, with sturdy supporting work from Pamela Turlow, Marie Goodkin, Marilyn Anne Michaels, Makeba Pace, and Belinda Belk as his long-suffering wife, mother, mistress, producer, and leading lady respectively." |
Chicago Reader | Jennifer Vanasco |
"As directed by Janel Winter, Minton resonates as a gawky, sensitive teenager trying to make a difficult decision, and Marilyn Anne Michaels is equally strong as Joe's best friend, Gracie, who has a crush on his mom." |
Windy City Times | Mary Shen Barnidge
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"And Marilyn Anne Michaels, Jenn SavaRyan and Amy Guillory endow their underwritten characters with engaging personalities..." |
Chicago Reader | Lawrence Bommer |
"Jeremy Trager confidently plays the slyly knowing narrator, and Blake Sereno and Marilyn Anne Michaels are affecting as seekers of shelter on a cold Christmas Eve." |
Chicago Tribune | Lucia Mauro
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"Marilyn Anne Michaels delivers the most quietly luminous performance as Mary, paired with a genuinely supportive Blake Sereno as Joseph." |
Chicago Reader | Jenn Goddu |
"Ryan Waite, Erin Mosher, Bailey Boudreau, and especially Marilyn Anne Michaels as the Man's sister give their characters depth." |
Pioneer Press | Michael Bonesteel |
"The entire cast, in fact, is rife with solid performances, including those by Tom Buttel as Mr. Sussel, Marilyn Anne Michaels as Margot Frank..." |
Oak Park Journal | Doug Deuchler
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"Marilyn Anne Michaels does well with the thankless role of Anne's quiet but kind sister Margot..." |
Freeport Journal-Standard | Jim French |
"...including some happy personality work by D. Scott Ferguson, Andy Hoffman, Tate Allen, Frank J. Harts III, and a beguiling Marilyn Anne Michaels." |
Chicago Reader | Jeff Rossen |
"...made all the more pointed by the spirited work from Laura Slater as the forked-tongued Sylvia Fowler; Julie Granata's sinisterly perfect turn as the gold-digging Crystal Allen; Marilyn Anne Michaels's slapstick timing as the forever pregnant but less-than-doting mother Edith Potter ('What's that on the baby's nose,' she asked by a concerned friend. 'Oh, an ash,' she says, flicking her cigarette.)" |
The Daily Herald | Grace Whitten |
"The cast is small, but packs more talent and experience than many of the grandiose shows... Michaels and Stadler are apprentices, but they put on one heck of a performance. Both are students at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. You'd never guess they were not veteran actors... Comedy is hard to do, folks, and these actors do it." |
Pioneer Press | Leah A. Zeldes |
"Marilyn Anne Michaels is appropriately saucy as the tart Emilie..." |
Chicago Reader | Kim Wilson |
"Marilyn Anne Michaels offsets the more aggressive characters with her warmhearted hippie simplicity. All the women have powerful moments..." |
The Octopus | Lorenzo K. Lazik |
"Marilyn Anne Michaels embodies Sooze's anger and ambition with passionate commitment, and the chemistry between her and Wolf reveals all the awkward pain and needy nuances of two young people who are outgrowing one another but who still fear undergoing real change." |
The Daily Illini | Greg Lindsay
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"Marilyn Anne Michaels lends the most dominant female presence to the play, and her aching for something more than just Burnfield is something anyone who grew up in a nowhere suburb can relate to." |
Copley Newspapers | Keith Carlson |
"Also appealing is Marilyn Anne Michaels as Audrey. Anne Michaels describes her character as 'Ann-Margret trying to bust out of Ellie Mae Clampett,' and she makes this evident with a clueless charm and a Cindy Brady-like lisp... Farbo and Anne Michaels are usually at the center of the show's finest numbers, which include Audrey's dreamy 'Somewhere That's Green,' the quirky love duet 'Suddenly Seymour'..." |
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