Concert Reviews:
"I'm The One That I Want"
March 5, 2000, Dallas Morning News |
"Howlingly funny" |
February 21, 2000, San Diego Union-Tribune |
"...Cho at her brutally honest best." "Cho's straight-from-the- shoulder-style makes even the most politically incor- rect topic eminently funny." |
January 20, 2000, Honolulu Star-Bulletin |
"They roared with laughter..." |
January 18, 2000, Seattle Times |
"Several times the capacity audience burst into cheers and applause as she told of achieving victory over adversities. " "Cho balanced cold, hard reality with laugh-out-loud hilarity so skillfully that you didn't know whether the tears in your eyes were from laughing or crying - or both. " |
December 24/31, Entertainment Weekly |
"Savage and seriously funny." |
November 15, 1999 San Francisco Chronicle |
"The sold-out theater exploded into hysterics, and Cho's home- town let out a collective sigh of relief: Their ballsy babe was back from the brink, and in beautiful form." |
November 15, 1999 Contra Costa Times |
"Stunning Theater." "(Cho is) an absolute master of the form." |
Oct. 4, 1999 Austin American-Statesman |
"Margaret Cho enthralled a packed house at the Paramount Theatre...The audience gave her a standing ovation." "...Cho had the audience bent over with laughter. It was an interesting crowd, a mix of gay and interracial couples, college students and people in their 40s and 50s." |
September 27, 1999 Chicago Sun Times |
"Well written and brilliantly performed ... instinctive comedic timing ... " |
August 2, 1999, Newsweek |
"Hilarious...THE HOT TICKET"
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July 30, 1999, Entertainment Weekly |
"One Woman Riot...A"
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July 29, 1999, Lesbian & Gay New York |
"Our culture needs Ms. Cho's fearless honesty." |
July 26, 1999, In Theater |
"At least some of her success is her unabashed, Lenny Bruce way
of telling things in the baldest words ... " |
July 22, 1999, Backstage |
"It's funny, concise, well-paced, irreverent and revealing Margaret Cho is the one that I want." |
July 12, 1999, New York Times |
"...Hysterical...Ms. Cho's timing is superb."
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July 12, 1999, Newsday |
"Cho proves herself a gifted mimic."
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July 9, 1999, Variety |
"... frank and brutally funny..."
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July 9, 1999, Star Ledger
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"She connects powerfully with viewers who feel themselves outside American society's conventional images." "Eddie Izzard and Sandra Bernhard have enjoyed stand-up hits there in the last year but the wry laughter that Cho creates in 'I'm The One That I Want' rocks the joint like never before." |
July 3, 1999, David Rothenberg WBAI |
"Probably the most satisfying in-your-face stage presentation since
John Leguizamo burst upon the scene in Mambo Mouth."
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