"Long-time musical director David Steadman wrote of her portrayals, "we felt the despair of Ruth losing Frederic's attentions in "Pirates", we could easily believe that her Buttercup adored Captain Corcoran in the moonlit stillness of Act Two of "H.M.S.Pinafore", that Katisha was a woman with feelings ... and that the Fairy Queen was a monarch with a matronly love for her girls."