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EVERYTHING THE TRAFFIC WILL ALLOW:
THE SONGS AND SASS OF ETHEL MERMAN

04/19/01 THE NEW YORK TIMES REVISIONS; An Echo of Merman: Nothing to Hit but the Heights by Margo Jefferson
06/6/01 THE NEW YORK TIMES Proving That There's No Business Like Ethel Merman by Stephen Holden
01/3/02 TIME OUT NEW YORK The Best of 2001
06/21/01 VARIETY Klea Blackhurst: Everything the Traffic Will Allow -- The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman by Robert L. Daniels
09/11/01 THE VILLAGE VOICE Anything She Could Do... by David Finkle
05/31/01 PLAYBILL The Return of the Merm by David Drake
4/4/01 SHOW BUSINESS Everything the Traffic Will Allow: The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman by David Hurst
05/28/03 MOUNTAIN XPRESS Rescuing Ethel Merman: Parodied Broadway star is lovingly repackaged by Kate Reynolds

AUTUMN IN NEW YORK:
VERNON DUKE'S BROADWAY

10/27/04 THE NEW YORK TIMES Adding a Bit of Merman to Russian Romanticism by Stephen Holden
09/14/05 THEATERMANIA.COM What I did on My Summer Vacation by Peter Filichia
11/04
/04 TALKINBROADWAY.COM Review by J. Frank
12/02/04 BACKSTAGE Tip-Top Tributes by David Finkle
09/01/05 NEXT Joe's Pub Review by David Hurst

PROFILES
10/11/05 BAY CITY REPORTER Klea Blackhurst's San Francisco Autumn by Jim Van Buskirk
10/6/02 THE SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE Klea's Got Rhythm by Christy Karras

RECORDINGS
08/26/05 PLAYBILL Beyond the Merm by David Drake
2005 BROADWAY.COM CDs: Das Chicago Song
by Ken Mandelbaum
08/16/05 THEATERMANIA Duke-ing It Out by Marc Miller
08/11/05 TALKINBROADWAY.COM Sound Advice by Rob Lester
01/09/03TALKINBROADWAY.COM Best Show Album of 2002 by Jonathan Frank

2002 SHOW BUSINESS Everything the Traffic Will Allow: The Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman
by David Hurst

CARNEGIE HALL
03/04/05THE NEW YORK SUN Jazz: The Year of the Songwriters by James Bowman

RED, HOT & BLUE
10/27/05 INSIDE BAY AREA Blackhurst Shines in Red, Hot & Blue by Chad Jones
09/28
/05 THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Blackhurst's brassiness heats up Porter tunes in Red, Hot & Blue by Robert Hurwitt

BBC PROMS
OKLAHOMA! ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON
09/2-8/02 VARIETY Over (and over and over) here by Matt Wolf
08/19/02
THE TIMES First Night by Richard Morrison

 

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"We were watching a real talent, a performer we knew could delight us without ever singing a note that had once been commandeered by Ethel Merman. We were not in thrall to the past: we were watching an interpretation of it that turned into something new."
Margo Jefferson,
The New York Times

"Pauline Kael once wrote that it takes a star to play a star. If that's true then Klea Blackhurst is a star. Make no mistake here: This is a career making turn!"
Village Voice

"A bright new star! Klea is just grand!"
Liz Smith

"Ms. Blackhurst needs a Broadway theatre as desperately as Kristin Chenoweth, so that she can flex her talent."
Stephen Holden,
The New York Times

"Simply sensational, Blackhurst will win you over with pluck, verve and talent––this amazing gal who understands what entertainment is all about."
David Hurst,
NEXT Magazine

"Blackhurst stopped just short of blowing the roof off the Albert Hall."
Variety