BARRYMORE NOMINATION: BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
“..The singers make the songs better just by the high quality of their acting when they perform them. And none is higher than Jennie Eisenhower, at home on many of the region’s professional stages. Here, she elegantly carries the show and dresses it up considerably. As Jo, the sister who burns to become a writer, Eisenhower, at age 32, slips easily into the role of a girl on the verge of womanhood – so easily, I looked twice to see that it was actually her before opening the program at intermission to be certain.By then, though, there was little question; her strong voice, always in the role whether singing or not, gave her away. I’m tempted to say that if the show itself offers little musical reason to go, Eisenhower overwhelms that deficit – except that the entire cast drives Little Women like some curiously detailed coupe worth showing off.”
–Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer
“Jennie Eisenhower as spunky Jo March easily carries the lead role. She is a strong actress — grounded, nuanced, and vibrant.”
– Kathryn Osenlund, Curtain Up
“Eisenhower exercises her considerable talent with the unabashed vocal prowess expected of a Barrymore recipient, (both as Best Actress in a Musical for Forbidden Broadway, and Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for The Wild Party.) She confidently attacks the role of tomboy writer Jo and maintains a consistent level of zeal from her first entrance in a New York boarding house to the final scene where a more mature (and published) Jo, back in Concord, Massachusetts, finds love in the arms of attractive German Professor Bhaer, played by Michael Sharon.”
— Gina Vitolo Stevens, Stage Magazine Online