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"Avery’s stage movements, line delivery, and overall aura were so spot-on for the 1920's [sic] that you could see him standing beside Mickey Rooney, Bob Hope or Abbott & Costello. His performance would outshine any performance I’ve seen on the main Landers Stage in an SLT production save [Kim] Crosby herself."
- Jason Wert, Ozarks Independent
"Clayton Avery's Lord Farquaad is devilish, delightful and over the top - everything a villain should be...While it is evident everyone on stage is having lots of fun, no one is having quite as good a time as Avery."
- Joshua Clark, Branson Tri-Lakes News
"Clayton Avery's Pegleg walks with a thump and a bell. His advances are ominous but tinkling, saturated with targeted charm and dark (but not black!) clowning. Avery...uses audience cues to capitalize on Pegleg's comedic opportunities. He kept the laughers laughing and the grinners grinning, sometimes against our own wills."
- Kate Brady Murr
"Clayton Avery is a hoot as Lord Farquaad...[Avery] moves about gracefully while brushing back his silky locks like Joan Crawford playing Richard III. Farquaad may be evil, but Avery makes him so entertaining you may shed an itsy bitsy tear when he gets his fiery comeuppance."
- Larry Collins, Springfield News-Leader
"Avery does superior work communicating Hackl’s inexperience around women and has a remarkably sincere delivery... Avery has a dandy, crystal clear tenor which was quite entertaining with “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” and genuinely moving in “It Only Takes a Moment”.
- Christopher Elston, Creating Contemplation
"Avery taps the spirit of Bert Lahr's vaudeville-inspired Lion, but he makes the part his own by upping the coward's comic hysteria, adding sassy contemporary references and mimicking the voices of film stars Jack Nicholson and James Earl Jones."
- Larry Collins, Springfield News-Leader