REVIEWS
"The very contradictions inherent in Teddy make a good biography. The play does justice to the vagaries of Roosevelt. This is truly history without peer...the best of its kind." - Clive Barnes, The New York Times
"Alden's writing is laced throughout with puns, jokes and typically Rooseveltian wit,but also with a sense of tremendous tenderness and vulnerability, also apparently strong currents in Roosevelt's character. Here Alden may be creating a new Roosevelt myth,but if so, it is totally credible and welcome one." - Barbara Mackay, Denver Post
"Jerome Alden's script soars in places, just as Teddy often soared. It provides us with a living picture of TR the boy,TR the man, and TR the 'Old Frump'...dramatically captured a character and a life-style that is exemplary for us all." - Jim Moorhead, St. Petersburg Independent
"This is the bluff, warring, loudmouth Roosevelt who takes the French ambassador wading, in the buff...and preaches the doctrine of the Strenuous Life. But there's also the tender Roosevelt who the Teddy Bear its name, and the moving Roosevelt confronting the deaths of his wife and mother and eventually his son. All the while-and this is the genius...of Jerome Alden's script-that we are aware of the boy who never entirely grew-up." - Mike Steele, Minneapolis Tribune