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BroadwayWorld: "Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Takes a New Look at the Campy Cautionary Musical Tale"

"The two leads were both quite strong. Sumi Yu as Audrey evinced a blithely comic sensibility as a disguise for the more troubling aspects of her existence, sang quite well, and wore Audrey's intentionally taste-challenged costumes with aplomb, which is not an easy thing to pull off ."

"The Rep Opens The Season With Technically Dazzling, Enigmatic 'House of Joy'"

"The biggest standout, to my mind, is Yu as Hamida, who starts out as something of a comic “best friend” character but goes on a convincing emotional journey through the course of the show, and her friendship with Pandya’s Roshni is thoroughly believable."

REVIEW: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” By Charles Paolino

“This is an exceptional cast, including Sumi Yu as contestant Marcy Park, who is tired of being complimented on her intellect. In her signature song, Yu punctuates her message, “I speak six languages,” by jumping in alongside Eisenstein on the keyboard, playing a brief violin solo, and accompanying herself on the ukulele.”