Gail Golden — Theater Critic

Suffs is a very ambitious history lesson with so many characters that we don’t really get to know any of them well — so we care about the issue but not the individual people. I preferred Act 1 to Act 2 (when things get really grim) and two of the Act 1 musical numbers are terrific – The Great American B*tch and If We Were Married.

If you are an ABBA fan, you are in luck! The show has lots of songs and very little dialogue. It is more like a pop opera than a musical. Many of the songs are superfluous – they don’t advance the plot or help us understand the characters better. In fact, some of the song choices seem downright inappropriate – the daughter sings a love song to her father, the father sings a “break up” song to his daughter.

Mr. McClure certainly deserved the nomination! He is a multi-talented dynamo - rapping, tapping, singing ballads, doing comedy numbers, puppeteering, doing lots of voices, and changing costumes dozens and dozens of times. This is a whirlwind of a performance and both “Daniel” and “Daniel as Mrs. Doubtfire” are genuine, sweet, funny, and zany! I hope Mr. McClure can keep up this pace for the 30 cities across the continent. We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to see his brilliant work here in Western New York!