SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Reviewer John Shand
May 11th 2018
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Performances of such comprehensive truth are rare in Sydney.
Sharon Millerchip is not playing Shirley Valentine, she's living her.She also lets Shirley ache without making her sentimental, and her Liverpudlian accent never flinches
Remind yourself just how enjoyable the confluence of skilful writing and a supreme performance can be.
STAGENOISE - Reviewer Diana Simmonds
May 13th 2018
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Sharon Millerchip is simply sensational in the role.
Totally recommended
... by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Sharon Millerchip is memorable as Shirley.
LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE - Reviewer Jo Litson
13th May 2018
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Millerchip is perfect in the role. We believe in her, ache for her, root for her and share the new optimism...
...with Millerchip finding the truth in each and every little moment it’s impossible not to be enchanted and moved.
Millerchip is a complete delight as Shirley. She is funny, self-deprecating, observant and optimistic.
She breaks your heart, she makes you laugh, and she knows what’s what
AUSTRALIAN STAGE - Reviewer Jack Teiwes
13th may 2018
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Millerchip is a powerhouse, carrying the show almost effortlessly on her shoulders.
Funny, touching, and filled with moments of surprising pathos, her performance is electric and captivating
...this is a character and an actress you simply want to spend time with.
ARTS HUB - Reviewer Lynne Lancaster
11th May 2018
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Stellar Performance... luminous and enchanting
Millerchip captivates the audience and has us all cheering Shirley on.
...had the audience rocking with laughter, and at other times listening in intense, moving silence.
STAGE WHISPERS - Reviewer Frank Hatherley
11th May 2018
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She is a knockout and the house screamed for more.
...shows what she can do with brilliant material and an alert production.
MEGAPHONEOZ - Reviewer Carrie Kablean
12 May 2018
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This is a one woman tour de force and Millerchip has nailed it
SUZYGOESSEE - Reviewer Suzy Wrong
11 May 2018
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Sharon Millerchip’s charisma proving irresistible... we feel as though we take the journey together, with her as captain and us the motor that propels her forward.
Shirley’s successes need to be witnessed, and we are there, happily, for her.
TIMEOUT - Reviewer Ben Neutze
11th May 2018
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Millerchip is a superb actor... and is as comfortable with the character’s tragedy as her lightness and seemingly endless wit.
ALT MEDIA - Reviewer Irena Dunn
13th May 2018
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...had the audience dancing on their toes and hooting with delight at the end of opening night. Millerchip is a truly engaging Shirley!
Sharon Millerchip is a fabulous Shirley
DAILY TELEGRAPH - Reviewer Jo Litson
March 31 2013
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The phrase gets bandied about, but Millerchip's performance is a genuine tour de force.
...her acting is so detailed and finely nuanced that the six characters she creates are utterly different to each other, yet so real.
Her comic timing is spot on.. her measured vocals and understated performance are so good, she takes us with her and makes us suspend our belief.
STAGENOISE - Reviewer Diana Simmonds
March 27 2013
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Sharon Millerchip is brilliant in a dazzling play
Millerchip demonstrates her finess and intelligence as both a straight and comic actress... She is hilarious and heartbreaking by turn... virtually unrecognisable from one character to another...
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Reviewer Jason Blake
March 26 2013
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Millerchip is triple threat incarnate... best of all is her straight acting.
The audience was quick to it's feet at the Ensemble on Saturday night.. it was to salute Sharon Millerchip, the star of this demanding one-woman show, for bringing six very different characters to convincing life.
THE AUSTRALIAN - DEBORA JONES
March 22, 2013
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The Ensemble have a gold plated hit on their hands.
On Wednesday night the audience immediately jumped to it's feet for Millerchip. Quite right too
CRIKEY.COM - Reviewer Bradford Skye
March 27, 2013
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It's a clear cut case of "wow, I knew she was good, but I never knew she was this good"
AUSSIETHEATRE.COM - Reviewer David Allen
March 21 2013
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There are few performers working in Australia today who are more dangerous than Sharon Millerchip.
Renown for her acting chops, Millerchip's skill for characterisation has never been so effectively displayed as in this show
the search for the next 'once in a lifetime' leading Lady ended years ago. Millerchip has been with us all along
TIMEOUT - Reviewer Benjamin Neutze
March 20 2013
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She is an actress at the height of her powers and makes the most of every moment in the spotlight.
Millerchip is commanding.
STAGEMILK - Reviewer Alexandra Joel
March 26 2013
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A virtuoso performance
...multi talented all singing, all dancing performer whose musical theatre abilities in no way outshine her range of superb acting skills
The writing is hilarious and the observations keen but it is Millerchip who brings it all to life.
ARTS HUB - Reviewer Lynn Lancaster
March 27, 2013
...a bravura performance by a theatrical diva performing at the top of her game.
Magnificent performance
702 ABC - Simone Whetton
A remarkable moment in the theatre
..exceptional performance by Sharon Millerchip
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Reviewer Jason Blake, Jan 13 2012
Millerchip excels... Bathing Beauty – the spotlight scene for Sharon Millerchip’s over-ripe starlet Meg - is a highlight
AUSSIE THEATRE - Reviewer David Allen, Sept 4 2012
As far as the cast goes, my pick of the night goes to Sharon Millerchip. As a singer, as a dancer, and as an actress, Millerchip is one of the best Australia has to offer ... she works harder than anyone else on the stage.
It’s a bloody and resolute performance
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Reviewer Jason Blake, May 30 2012
Sharon Millerchip is perfect as the curdling starlet Meg.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - Reviewer Jo Litson, Jan 14 2012
Sharon Millerchip is totally captivating as the jealous showgirl Meg.
THEATRE PEOPLE - Reviewer Tristan Lutze, Jan 16th 2012
Sharon Millerchip shines as Meg, filling her with a tortured combination of ambition and naïveté... "Bathing Beauty" is a glorious showstopper.
AUSSIE THEATRE - Reviewer, Cassie Tongue 12 jan 2012
Sharon Millerchip’s Meg Giry almost steals the entire show with Meg’s bouncy revelry of a Coney Island number, ‘Bathing Beauty’.
BOARDS UNDER THE BRIDGE Nov 30 2011
Sharon Millerchip continues to prove why she’s one of the true greats of Australian musical theatre today
AUSSIE THEATRE - Reviewer Les Solomon, Jan 11 2012
Sharon Millerchip is now the undisputed pulse of the show
STAGE NOISE - Reviewer Diana Simmonds May 19 2009
Singer-dancer-actor-comediennes don't come any better ....dynamite... there is no pretence, there are no half measures; effortlessly channelling the greatest stars of tap, tunes and tawdry that ever cartwheeled across a stage
THE AGE - Reviewer Cameron Woodhead 22 August 2009
She is the complete package, with excellent comic timing, stage presence, strong vocals, and dynamic dancing that springs naturally from the action."
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Reviewer Jo Litson, 24 May 2009,
Sharon Millerchip's sensational performance had the opening-night audience buzzing. Millerchip was born to play Roxie... Mining every ounce of humour in the role, she is fabulously funny yet captures Roxie's brief moments of introspection beautifully. Her exquisite rendition of the soliloquy and song Roxie is a tour de force.
HERALD SUN - Reviewer Catherine Lambert, 23rd Aug 2009
Watching Millerchip as Roxie.. is like watching a sex kitten in a steam room.
Millerchip may be the cutest killer ever seen on stage
... fabulous, show-stopping performance.
STAGE WHISPERS - Reviewer Simon Parris, Aug 20 2009
Sharon Millerchip is an absolute revelation as Roxie.
See this show and one day you will be able to boast that you saw Sharon Millerchip as Roxie.
AUSTRALIAN STAGE 24 march 2009
For character and actress it is a star-making performance.
BRISBANE TIMES - reviewer Nathanial Cooper
If Sharon Millerchip was great as Velma Kelly, she is positively amazing as Roxie Hart.
SYDNEY STAR OBSERVER - reviewer Nadine Lee june 3 2009
When Sharon Millerchip sings “the name on everybody’s lips is gonna be Roxie”, she may well have been predicting the audience chatter about her own performance.
Millerchip shines as a vulnerable, yet clued-in Roxie Hart
STAGE NOISE - Reviewer Diana Simmonds, Dec 4 2010
rarely has she been seen on a stage without an orchestra and chorus, but her performance... proves she needs neither.
Oxenbould and Millerchip make a memorable pair. It's lovely work:... uproariously funny and ultimately, sweetly and believably touching. Terrifically entertaining.
DAILY TELEGRAPH - Reviewer Troy Lennon Dec 8 2011
Millerchip displays amazing talent as a character actress, sharply defining three very different characters... this production is worth watching for her amazing performance.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Reviewer Jo Litson, Dec 10 2010
Millerchip’s characterisation is delectable, while her comic timing is consummate. What’s more, she is playing not one but three very different women, and she pulls it off superbly. It’s quite some debut.
THE SUN HERALD - Reviewer Elissa Blake 5 Dec 2010
Sharon Millerchip is the surprise package in this classic Neil Simon comedy from 1969...perfect comic timing.
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Reviewer Jason Blake, Dec 6 2010
..first-rate showcase for actors with a flair for the comic... provides Millerchip with a golden opportunity to strut her stuff
THEATRE PEOPLE - Reviewer Jack Teiwes, 22 Feb 2008
.. phenomenally good was Sharon Millerchip as Columbia, delivering such a terrifically spunky performance that you dearly wished her role was bigger.
SUNDAY HERALD SUN - Reviewer Simon Holt, 24 Feb 2008
Millerchip plays Columbia and for mine was equal to the performance of the night.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Reviewer Jo Litson, 25 Feb 2008
Sharon Millerchip is irresistible as Columbia,
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Reviewer Bryce Hallett, Feb 11 2008
the outstanding Sharon Millerchip as Columbia. The singing is exceptional