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"...full of Andrews Sisters songs and an electric performance by Ruthie Baker as Patty, the youngest sister... This show is built for a performer eager to set the stage on fire. Baker takes up the challenge with irresistible charisma. Her mouth has more pearly whites than a Steinway grand; her eyes flirt, dance, laugh and cry; and her brassy voice rings with clarity. With Stacy Lindell's Maxene and Patty Nieman's Laverne, Baker blends perfectly in Raymond Berg's interweaving arrangements."
- By Graydon Royce, Star Tribune
"Baker returns..as the effervescent youngest sister, Patty"
- by Renee Valois, Pioneer Press
"...an especially strong vocal performance from Baker.... exuberant and full of life...
...one scene in the later part of the show was extremely entertaining: the "Carmen Boogie" number where the sisters musically recount how Patty uses a baseball bat to hunt down her husband, Marty Melcher, who had left Patty for Doris Day. Ruthie Baker is clearly having great fun during this romp."
- by Bev Wolfe, TC Daily Planet
"Outstanding New Face in Twin Cities Theatre 2004:
Ruthie Baker for Christmas of Swing"
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
"You can't take your eyes off Ruthie Baker. She's the coy, flirty, hip-wiggling, nylon-flashing magnetic center of the Great American History Theatre's new holiday romp Christmas of Swing, which opened in St. Paul on Saturday...
...Baker plays 'Patty', youngest of the three Andrews Sisters, the World War II girl group from Minneapolis that sold more than 100 million records and filled innumerable GIs with the gumption to endure. Baker is pretty and blessed with a terrific alto voice and plenty of alluring boogie in her very gifted woogie. But her magnetism comes from an essential joy deep inside her performer's soul. She lets it shine like the star of Bethlehem in this Christmas show."
- by Jaime Meyer, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Both Long and Nieman set up Patty Andrews, the youngest and liveliest sister, played by Ruthie Baker, who packs her character with energy and fun. Baker is scene-stealingly engaging as Patty; she radiates playfulness and youth and, like Nieman and Long, she's sure got the pipes for her role."
- Elizabeth Weir, Talkin' Broadway.com
"Ruthie Baker, Patty Neiman, and Norah Long are perky and pitch-perfect as the Andrews Sisters, those Minneapolis phenoms who managed to put springs in steps and smiles on faces, even through World War II. The sisters' holiday show is a nostalgic bonbon."
- Dominic P. Papatola, St. Paul Pioneer Press