Performance Media
Reviews
Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray @ San Francisco Playhouse
"Mackenzie Macdonald was phenomenal as Amber Von Tussle. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing her perform several times now, and once again she reminded me just how incredibly talented she is. Her comedic instincts were impeccable, and she delivered Amber’s razor-sharp attitude with such confidence that every entrance became a highlight." -Broadway World (AJ Jaffari)
"Mackenzie Macdonald gives a viciously hilarious performance as Amber" -North Bay Stage & Screen (Cari Lynn Pace)
"Every show about high school teenagers needs the pretty-on-the-outside but jealous-on-the-inside mean girl you love to hate, and that’s ... Amber Von Tussle, a delightful Mackenzie Macdonald" -Stage & Cinema (Chuck Louden)
"Amber, a vivacious and condescending Mackenzie Macdonald" -Cordell Reports
Olive Ostrovsky in Spelling Bee
"Mackenzie Macdonald wins our hearts with a voice that is lyrically attracting as she sings of the love she is so wanting and missing... with [her] final, plaintive, and gripping cries of "Mama" enough to draw our tears." -Eddie Reynolds Talkin' Broadway
"Any successful production of “Spelling Bee” begins and ends with 'The I Love You Song,' one of the most devastating opuses in all of musical theater ... Macdonald’s eyes are full of raw emotion as she harmonizes" -The Mercury News
Karen Smith in Mean Girls
"Mackenzie Macdonald gives Karen Smith's ditzy blonde stereotype just the right amount of genuine soul, while maintaining the empty-eyed stare of a girl who is always on the verge of figuring something out, but just can't quite make it there." -Patrick Thomas, Talkin' Broadway
"Much hilarity time and again comes from Mackenzie Macdonald’s oft-clueless Karen who is also adoringly sweet and quickly forgiving of any insult coming her way. With an initial little-girl-like voice that gathers the muster to sing with glitter in her eyes a fun and funny “Sexy” as she celebrates Halloween as a day she can be whomever she wants" -Eddie Reynolds, Theatre Eddys
“Mackenzie Macdonald is now officially my favorite Karen. She just was hilarious. I know all of Karen’s jokes at this point in time and she still made me laugh. She embodied her really well.” - Broadway with AJ & Sarah (Podcast)
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