Seattle Times (click for whole review):
“The ever-delightful Billie Wildrick is perfection as Nathan's long-patient poopsie, and she slays the sniffly cri de coeur "Adelaide's Lament."
-Misha Berson
Seattle Weekly (click for whole review) :
“Is Guys and Dolls' Miss Adelaide the best female comic role in American musical-theater history? Or does Billie Wildrick just make it seem that way? In the 5th Avenue's production of Frank Loesser's 1950 musical, she plays, sublimely, a New York City showgirl trying to get her man to the altar. Beyond that old fish-with-a-bicycle trope, beyond her boop-boop-be-doop surface, Wildrick seems to read her as the only adult onstage—a frustrated realist, the only major character who hasn't constructed a fantasy to keep the world at bay. (She's constructed one to keep her mother at bay, but that's another story.) She hungers less for the whole white-picket-fence thing than for her fiance, craps huckster Nathan Detroit, the oldest established perpetual floating adolescent in New York, finally to grow up and commit to something/anything.”
- Gavin Borchert
Broadway World (click for whole review):
”My favorites for the evening (and these characters have a tendency to walk away with the show) had to be Levine and Wildrick as Nathan and Adelaide. Levine puts his own twitchy little spin on Detroit complete with his little tick every time someone mentions marriage. And the always incredible Wildrick nails every aspect of the character. She's funny when she needs to be, sweet when she needs to be, thoughtful, smart, and all around fabulous. And the girl can sell a number like nobody's business. And the two of them together amounted for some killer chemistry with impeccable voices.”
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-Jay Irwin
Talkin’ Broadway (click for whole review):
“Wildrick faces the challenge that Adelaide is a comic role so well known that there are few surprises to it or ways to make the jokes land with any real punch. What she does, and does well, is play Adelaide as honestly and with as much emotional depth as the role can withstand, making her lovable all over again. She leads the kitschy Hot-Box club numbers, "Bushel and A Peck" and "Take Back Your Mink," with a headliner's assurance and she is, by the way, what the guys in the story would refer to as "a real dish," as she struts in her naughtier attire.”
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-David Edward-Hughes
Fine Arts Examiner (click for whole review):
“Billie Wildrick as Adelaide is also a standout; she portrays Adelaide as more than just a caricature. In particular, her performance of “Adelaide’s Lament,” while comical, revealed a depth and humanity that makes her all the more loveable. Noah Racey’s energetic and sometimes racy choreography amps up this production and gives it a fresh feel. Adelaide and the Hot Box girls perform the fun and sexy production numbers “A Bushel and a Peck,” and “Take Back Your Mink.” Both numbers are highly entertaining and feature a toned-down striptease (not beyond a PG-13 rating at least). These numbers give Wildrick another opportunity to demonstrate her ample talents as an actress, a singer, and a dancer.”
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-Audrey Gervasi
Queen Anne News (click for whole review):
“Fresh from her role as sultry Mary in Vanities, Fifth Avenue regular Billie Wildrick channels Judy Holliday as the high octave Miss Adelaide, expressing comic pathos in “Adelaide’s Lament”, and comic sensuality in “Take Back Your Mink” and “A Bushel and a Peck.” Wildrick and the Broadway-based Levine, as frightened-of-commitment Nathan Detroit, display genuine chemistry as the long-term affianced couple.”
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-Miya Cohen-Sieg
Crosscut (click for whole review):
“Among the cast, Billie Wildrick is a standout as Adelaide. Not only does she sound remarkably like the original Adelaide, Vivian Blaine; like Blaine she avoids turning Adelaide into a caricature and is able to simultaneously convey the character’s essential humanity as well as her comical qualities. Wildrick’s rendition of “Adelaide’s Lament” (“a girl could develop a cold”) is alone worth the price of admission.”
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-Alice Kaderlan
Seattle Gay News (click for whole review):
“Favorite Wildrick takes the stage with assurance as Miss Adelaide, with spot-on comic timing and a deft humanization of her character's 'dumb blonde' aspects.”
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-Miryam Gordon
Seattle Theater Examiner (click for whole review):
“As a gambler’s doll, Billie Wildrick shines as that songbird of the Hot Box burlesque show, Adelaide, and she takes Frank Loesser’s memorable lament for the character, concerning her guy’s cold feet at the alter causing her sneezes and wheezes, to soaring heights.”
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-Rosemary Jones
Twin Cities Daily Planet (click for whole review):
“It takes well into the second act to witness the real star power in this cast, except in the case of Billie Wildrick as Miss Adelaide: when she appeared onstage for the first time, asking some of her backup dancers to order her "a tuna on rye and a chocolate sundae with tomato ketchup and mayonnaise," Wildrick made the entire audience start shuffling through their playbills searching for more information about this comedic dynamo. Like a blonde Betty Boop come to life, Wildrick was so endearing I found myself wishing that Adelaide and her Hot Box dancer's numbers like "Take Back Your Mink" and "A Bushel and a Peck" were a bigger part of the show.”
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-Emily Weiss
How Was The Show? (click for whole review):
“Billie Wildrick is terrific as Adelaide. Her New York showgirl accent works perfectly for both the songs and her character. She’s sweet, passionate but she never makes you pity her. Her “Adelaide’s Lament” is a sneezy delight.”
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-John Olive
Twin Cities Star Tribune (click for whole review):
“Billie Wildrick is delightful as long-engaged moll Adelaide. Her "Take Back Your Mink" is a highlight.”
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-Rohan Preston
Cherry and Spoon (click for whole review):
“Billie Wildrick is just perfect in the role of Miss Adelaide, not to mention her fabulous wardrobe and shoes!”
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-Jill