REVIEWS
SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE
Jackie Seiden in "Pearl's a Singer" reveals that she's a throaty country diva — it's one of the evening's best moments.
LAWeekly
Vivacious Jackie Seiden sizzles in the first-rueful then forceful ballad "Pearl's a Singer" and generates even more heat in the sultry "I Keep Forgettin'."
Backstage
The gorgeous Seiden, the breakout performer in El Portal's recent Respect: The Girl Em-powered Musical, continues her fast track to stardom with a sassy "I Keep Forgetting" and a country-flavored "Pearl's A Singer."
StageSceneLa
Jackie Seiden has a knack for country torch songs in the poignant "Pearl's A Singer."
TheaterMania
RESPECT
Seiden is a real find, an angel-faced ingénue with a brass-plated voice when she belts that would do Sophie Tucker proud.
LA Times
Jackie Seiden capably performs a broad range of fare, offering captivating vocals on Betty Boop's "I Wanna Be Loved by You," "As Long as He Needs Me," "The Greatest Love of All," and a telling rendering of "Sweet Talkin' Guy," highlighted by projections of such historically suspect men folk as O.J. Simpson, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.
Variety
Jackie Seiden is a standout, with a gorgeous, versatile voice and strong acting ability. Her renditions of songs ranging from roaring '20s hits to '70s disco numbers are delivered with passion and remarkable panache.
BackstageWest
Best of all is the gorgeous triple-threat Jackie Seiden, fresh from the Jersey Boys tour and on the fast track to stardom.
StageSceneLA.com
Seiden is the standout of the four, with her impressive vocals and earnest facial expressions in Betty Boop's "I Wanna Be Loved By You" drawing major laughs from the audience.
LA Daily News
JERSEY BOYS
...a sharp and tuneful Jackie Seiden
San Francisco Chronicle
...in this mostly masculine musical. Jackie Seiden is properly feisty and bossy as Valli's first wife.
TalkinBroadway.com
All subsidiary figures are ... well turned, with John Altieri's tres gay Crewe, Joseph Siravo's not-so-bad goodfella Gyp DeCarlo and Jackie Seiden as Frankie's harpy of a first wife leading the support staff of 10.
Variety
... they are wonderfully supported by a wicked crime boss (Joseph Siravo) and sexy women who become wives (Jackie Seiden makes Valli's first wife sympathetic even as she turns into a total shrew).
www.pacificsun.com
Jackie Seiden is a particular standout as Valli’s first wife Mary (a character DeVito first warns Frankie will “eat you alive and send you home in an envelope”)
www.entertainmenttoday.net
The performers exhibit great range. The women move from lithe chorines to serviceable actors, providing girlfriends and wives, while the men portray heavies one minute and back-up musicians the next. (Special marks to Jackie Seiden as Valli's first wife, who helps enliven Brickman's sharpest dialogue in a scene when the future spouses meet.)
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HAPPY DAYS
With Joey McIntyre (of New Kids on the Block) returning as the much idolized, too cool Fonzie, this time a dazzling, talented Jackie Seiden plays his heartthrob, Pinky Tuscadero.
The Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier
JEKYLL & HYDE
As Lucy, Jackie Seiden is unquestionably the production's most valuable player. She is a sexy, sympathetic, vibrant presence and her singing conveys depths of character and feeling. Seiden's Act 2 ballad, "A New Life," is filled with raw emotion, and her duet with Jennifer Hope Wills, a vocally gifted actress who plays Emma, is a roof-raiser.
CantonRep.com
Seiden shines musically, especially in a duet with her betrothed Jekyll. Seiden as Lucy displays a gruff lower class harlot, but shows her tenderness while being trapped in her particular situation when singing "Someone Like You." It is Seiden as Lucy that garners our musical attention for the main female vocals throughout the Carousel production.
Sun News
The part of Lucy, a lady of the evening in the seedy part of London, employed at the Red Rat, is outstanding! She has duets with both Jekyll and Lucy, "Take My As I Am" and "In His Eyes." Portraying Lucy is New York actress Jackie Seiden. She is not only very, very talented but beautiful too.
Hartville News
Another woman in Jekyll's life is played by Jackie Seiden (Lucy), as a prostitute he rescues from a physically abusive relationship. Seiden has a strong singing voice and makes her lines readily accessible to the audience.
Spotlights
Although Green carries the evening, the supporting cast is equally good, especially Jackie Seiden as Lucy, a prostitute whose murder is the most ghastly in the show.
The Vindicator
HEAT LIGHTNING
The other promising presence onstage is Jackie Seiden as one of the two Furies, the backup singers in Seth's shabby band. Singing with … Seiden is one of the few oases of ability onstage.
TheatreMania.com
The backup singers, named the Furies, nicely act the Greek chorus for the musical, taunting and propelling Seth toward the piece's conclusion. As these two characters, both Jackie Seiden and Jennifer Waldman are to be commended for infusing these roles with individual traits.
The New York Times