Farah Alvin: Press

"... Someday is full of lots and lots of everything I like in pop music: good tunes, smart lyrics, gorgeous singing, spare and striking arrangements.


"I especially like "Tragedienne," a song about two women whose friendship is on the rocks..."


"...If you've enjoyed the music of Erin McKeown, Jonatha Brooke, Allison Moorer, Luciana Souza, Dave's True Story, the Lascivious Biddies, or any of the other slightly off-center singer-songwriters and pop groups championed in the past by the like-minded proprietors of this blog, my guess is that Farah Alvin will suit you right down to the ground. Check her out. "

"Colin Hanlon inhabits a song as much as he sings it and he has the unique ability to make you believe every number was written expressly for him. Farah Alvin has the same skill. She internalizes a song and expands its parameters with a good voice and a great ear for lyric sensibility.

Albany Record
Bob Goepfert

Singers Farah Alvin, Steven Booth, Whitney Bashor and Colin Hanlon are invested in the material and act their parts...to the teeth.
Some of these songs are worthy of Jason Robert Brown or Adam Guettel, and "Lying There" as voiced...by Farah Alvin, even hints at Stephen Sondheim. No Really.

Albany Times Union
Michael Eck

“Farah Alvin, one of New York's very best musical-comedy singers, whose voice, as always, is brilliant and true”....

Wall Street Journal

“Mabel, played wisely and radiantly by the vivacious Farah Alvin, lights up the stage at each entrance.”


New York Times

Farah Alvin is delicious in the part, strong but not strident...Add to this a glorious soprano on "Poor Wand'ring One" -- and you have a charming performance”....

New Jersey Star-Ledger

“The young lovers are played with delicious comic allure by Farah Alvin and Barrett Foa.”

Variety

”Farah Alvin is a Mabel with backbone, charisma and a gorgeous voice.”

Talkin’ Broadway

“Farah Alvin, one of New York's very best musical-comedy singers, whose voice, as always, is brilliant and true”....

Wall Street Journal

Farah Alvin's Mabel is far from the cupie-doll tradition, looking like she bolted from a production of feminist comedy "On the Verge." She even gets to be a bit wacky.” (Watch how the performer's eyes twitch when her ideas are summarily dismissed by her oblivious dad.)

Variety

“The charming Ms. Alvin is the other cast standout, giving brainy sisters a very good name.”


The New York Times

...Farah Alvin, the best young musical-comedy singer to come along in years...

...a showcase for Farah Alvin, of whom much more will be heard.

The Wall Street Journal

A powerful voice...


Broadway.com

Hanlon and Alvin are especially impressive, with rich, emotional singing voices that match their acting chops.

Variety

But Alvin impresses most as the flighty Marcy, making her a giddily gushing embodiment of everything
unexpectedly delightful about New York. With her intensely focused acting and her convicted singing, Alvin makes you intimately understand why Austin finds Marcy so fascinating and frustrating, and beautifully reconciles the flibbertigibbet personality that can sing the tentative "Just Not Now" so plaintively one moment and the comically confessional "Even Though" not long after.

Broadway Stars

Alvin, whether holding back or letting loose with her unrestrained comic fury, is the true find of this show, so sweet one minute and so sour the next, it's sometimes hard to remember one actress does it all.”

Broadway Stars

For If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Other Story Books...
The six-person cast - Farah Alvin, David A. Austin, Nick Blaemire, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Aurelia Williams and Carla Woods - is uniformly excellent. These are real pros who, at a recent performance, made the adults in the audience laugh just as much as the children.

“Farah Alvin wins the kids over before she even talks; her body language -- crouched over the table with the friendliest of smiles, with her striped-stockinged knees a-knocking -- gets the first vignette off to a strong start. She continues warm and friendly in all her roles.” –Steven Suskin in Variety

"i love your singing and i love all the parts of imogene's antlers. i love every part of the play. and i love listening to your music on the computer.i want to buy it. i love your hair. i wish i was you"

New Theatre Restaurant production makes one say, 'Barbara, who?'

“As Brice, the vaudeville superstar, Alvin is a lot funnier than Streisand
was in the 1968 film, which I watched again recently on television to confirm the thoughts I had as I laughed at Alvin's tender-but-comedic take on Brice, a woman who masked her insecurities with self-deprecating humor.”
“This may be blasphemy for Babs fans, but I preferred the approach Alvin took to "People."She sang it very un-Streisand-like, again making it much more a song to which everyday folk could relate.”
Topeka Capital Journal

”despite an outsize presence and a voice your family could summer in. We're told she's funny-looking, but Alvin is a knockout, a thoroughly winning performer who, in her first number alone, kills at fast-talk patter and big, Broadway belting. Minutes later, she manages to telegraph both Brice's deep insecurity and supreme confidence, all while flailing around on roller skates”. _

The Pitch

Farah Alvin plays Fanny with a restrained comic touch that establishes a vital distance from the role’s famous originator.
Alvin’s voice is warm and sinuous in the show’s tender ballads but is likewise capable of a mighty belt._

Kansas City Star

…Farah Alvin has an absolutely perfect American musical theater voice.
Her reading of Can't Help Lovin' That Man is the very definition of the term "show-stopper.

_Fort Worth Star Telegram