Reviews from Dirty Blonde:

“Najimy had Saturday night’s opening audience whistling and hollering … Mae would be so proud.”
LA TIMES
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“Kathy Najimy delivers a shrewd, superbly timed evocation of the movie icon.”
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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“Watching Najimy charm an audience makes you wish that Hollywood exerted a less irresistible pull on Southern California’s theater community. It also reminds you of the film industry’s nasty habit of trapping talented artists in work that doesn’t do them justice. It’s only in a theatrical vehicle such as this one that the multigifted Najimy can reveal all that she has to offer.”
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

“A terrific, nuanced and engaging performance…”
KBPS NPR

“ Najimy is clearly more versatile than her career-making comedy roles have suggested…”
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

“When Najimy sings as Mae West, she is Mae West.”
POMERADO NEWSPAPER

“Najimy does Mae West deliciously – from her lurchingly sexy walk to her cooing, “So” – in both West’s young and, most sympathetically, her aged incarnation.”
BACKSTAGE

“Najimy animates a production that’s more polished than the New York original…”
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

“Kathy Najimy, a dear and giving actress who pulled herself up through the theatrical minor leagues here in town, is svelte and radiant as the star…”
SANDIEGO.COM

“Najimy shines as West, marking each shift and alteration with consummate skill, speaking each line with aplomb.”
SAN DIEGO READER

“Kathy Najimy has brought a summer gift to her native town that’s as bracing as a sea breeze on a sultry afternoon…she puts her own unmistakable stamp on the two-character Shear part in this smartly staged Old Globe production… Najimy captures West’s most important quality: an overripe sexiness that emanates more from personality than appearance.”
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

“Her entrance stopped the show before it began … Najimy earns the standing ovation she always deserved, proving you can go home again.”
THE PRESS ENTERPRISE

“I spent so much of opening night so thrilled at seeing Najimy on the Globe stage I took few notes. In fact, the only legible one reads, “SO PROUD OF HER!”
SAN DIEGO READER