ELENA'S REEL

Reviews from when Elena played Amalia in SHE LOVES ME at Bucks County Playhouse.

“Elena Shaddow as Amalia Balash possesses a most glorious soprano and makes every song deliciously thrilling.”
- Times Square Chronicles

“…the versatile Elena Shaddow, who as the complex Amalia Balash in “She Loves Me,” makes a stunning entrance, cementing her character’s presence of mind and resourcefulness, finds every touching, comic, tart, and warm note that humanizes Amalia, and sings Bock’s demanding range with vocal pyrotechnics while exuding all of Harnick’s sentiments, self-doubting or abrasive.

Shaddow is a delight who fully dramatizes Amalia’s demeanor as a shy woman who found romance via letters from a man she’s never met and wonders if he’ll like her when they meet and as a strong woman who can meet any verbal exchange, confessional or sardonic, with the required humility or fire. (Listen as she tells a colleague, Ilona, about her hopes for the love she has never encountered except by mail, or warns Georg, another colleague, how he will soon, at her hands, know all of Dante’s depths of hell.”
-US.1 PrincetonInfo

Reviews from when Elena co-starred opposite Hunter Foster in THE MUSIC MAN at St. Louis MUNY.

"Nothing short of astounding with her nightingale vocals... Shaddow leaves the audience with goose bumps."
– St. Louis Magazine

"Elena Shaddow as Marian Paroo is the best I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch in this role, with a voice and charm every bit the measure of the original Marian, Barbara Cook. She is perfectly cast."
– CBS St. Louis