2005 REVIEW QUOTES
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 "DRS is a madcap, rollicking good time with sensational turns from the heavenly Sherie Rene Scott, a chicly droll Joanna Gleason and hunky man-of-our-dreams Gregory Jbara.
  - David Hurst, Next Magazine <<

 "...played with dignity and charming silliness by Gregory Jbara."
  - Linda Winer, Newsday <<

  "...Gregory Jbara, impeccable as Andre."
  - Clives Barnes, New York Post <<

  "A subplot that has Muriel [Joanna Gleason] and Andre [Gregory Jbara] falling is love is just ambrosia. They sing and dance "Like Zis/Like Zat" like Fred and Ginger."
  - Chesley Plemmons, News-Times <<

  "the marvelously low key Greg Jbara"
  - Roma Torre, NY1 News | See Video @ NY1.com <<

  "Gregory Jbara is astonishingly suave and droll"
  - Howard Kissel, New York Daily News <<

  "Joanna Gleason ... effervescently floats through the evening with the kind of subtle sophistication that can draw multiple meanings from just saying "Oh." When teamed with Gregory Jbara, as Lithgow's virile gentleman's gentleman with just the right amount of cartoon snootiness in his French accent, the two of them inject the proceedings with a smart dash of drawing room wit."
  - Michael Dale, BroadwayWorld.com <<

  "Gregory Jbara is a lovable silver fox."
  - Michael Sommers, Star-Ledger <<

 Butz is almost a show unto himself. ... There are outstanding performances, too, by Sherie Rene Scott, Joanna Gleason and Gregory Jbara, with a strong featured turn by Sara Gettelfinger."
  - William Wolf, Wolf Entertainment Guide <<

  "Gleason and Jbara charm the crowd with "Like Zis/Like Zat."
  - David Finkle, Theater Mania <<

  "A secondary romantic couple has also been added to the mix; ordinarily, this might be the time to scan the Playbill, waiting for the filler to end, yet with the venerable Joanna Gleason and Gregory Jbara assuming the parts attention must be paid."
  - Robert Cashill, Entertainment Design <<

  "Gregory Jbara's urbane Frenchman ... exudes a smart Gallic air through Jbara's polished playing."
  - Malcolm Johnson, CTnow.com <<

  "Gregory Jbara oozes Continental charm as a corrupt French official."
  - David Sheward, BackStage Notes <<

  "In a surprise addition to an already complex plot, the affair between Andre, the sleekly suave Greg Jbara and Muriel, [Joanna] Gleason, who seems to get younger with each show, would seem extraneous but no one can deny their amiability and delightfully unique courtship for pure entertainment value."
  - Jeannie Lieberman, TheatreScene.net <<

  "A deadpan Gregory Jbara, effecting ze, 'ow you say, tres, tres lousy French accent, makes a perfectly nonsensical romantic partner for [Gleason]."
  - Peter Marks, Washington Post <<

  "John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott -- ably assisted by Joanna Gleason and Gregory Jbara -- bring real show-biz pizzazz to the proceedings, which are free of sentiment, long on laughs."
  - Robert J. Hughes, The Wall Street Journal <<

  "...Gleason, Jbara and Gettelfinger provide sterling supporting turns."
  - Frank Scheck, Reuters/Hollywood Reporter <<

  Joanna [Gleason] ("Into the Woods") as one of Jameson's early marks and Gregory Jbara ("Chicago," "Victor/Victoria") as his loyal aide, and the local police chief, lend excellent support. As a couple, they are endearing in 'Like Zis/Like Zat.' "
  - Kathy Schiff, Daily Record <<

  "...the smoothly corrupt and understatedly Gallic cop of Gregory Jbara."
  - John Simon, New York Magazine <<

  "And there's a delectable auxiliary comic couple played by Gregory Jbara (as Jameson's partner-in-crime) and Joanna Gleason (Muriel Eubanks, of Omaha). Jbara and Gleason are so assured and dryly understated in their inflections, even the weaker material comes out sounding like Lubitsch."
  - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune <<

  "Gregory Jbara, drily funny and debonair in pinstripes."
  - Jeremy McCarter, The New York Sun <<

  "[Jeffrey] Lane's greatest contribution is his biggest diversion from the movie, his invention of a love story for the secondary characters, the smooth con man's assistant (who happens to be Chief of Police) played with an amusing French accent by Gregory Jbara, and the con man's most gullible but persistent mark, the wonderful Joanna Gleason who lights up the stage whenever she's on it, even when the material lets her down."
  - Brad Hathaway, Potomoc Stages <<

  "Both Lithgow and Butz are charming in their very different ways, as are Gregory Jbara and Joanna Gleason in secondary roles."
  - Michael Feingold, The Village Voice <<

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