Critical Praise for
MARC KUDISCH
Blue Flower (2011)
"Marc
Kudisch, no stranger to cutting-edge musicals, is … astonishing
as Max."
–
Steven Suskin, Variety
"Marc
Kudisch performs the challenging feat of singing
several snatches of song in a made-up language created by his character, Max...
Maxperanto… the talented Mr. Kudisch
sings it with the same expressive gusto he brings to the rest of his
performance."
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"Marc
Kudisch (A
Minister’s Wife) once again shines in a challenging role."
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"...The
best new musical since Spring Awakening.
… Marc Kudisch [as Max is] in the performance of his
career…"
–
Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg
A Minister's Wife (2011)
"Mr.
Kudisch sings with an aptly robust, rich tone the
role of James, the civic-minded minister whose dedication to his work earns him
the fervid admiration of his young curate... Mr. Kudisch
captures both the character’s innate goodness and his egoism, a satisfaction he
takes in leading his small flock of devoted followers."
– New York Times
"A
charismatic Marc Kudisch plays the blowhard Morell so well that it is hard to root against him."
– Associated Press
"Marc
Kudisch (Morell) is one of
the best actors in our musical theater … and his combination of power and zest,
touched with a delicate hint of insecure self-consciousness, carries the
evening."
– Village Voice
"All
five players [including Kudisch] are completely at
ease with the long monologues that Mr. Pendleton has drawn more or less directly
from Shaw's play, and they handle Mr. Schmidt's tricky score with sweet
assurance. ... I can't imagine any other cast striking a better balance between
song and speech."
– Wall Street Journal
9 to 5 (2009)
"Marc
Kudisch – let's give the men credit where it's due –
is a deliciously creepy and utterly credible unreconstructed male who has no
insight into his behaviour and no shame ('you are
nothing but a typewriter with tits' he tells Doralee),
which makes his comeuppance all the more sweet."
– The Guardian (
"And
we haven't even gotten to Kudisch, the chauvinistic
boss who finds himself at the mercy of the avenging females. His performance is
riotously on target, both physically and vocally. Kudisch
possesses one of those rich,
booming
voices that lets you understand every lyric. "
– Associated Press
"Director
Joe Mantello and book writer Patricia Resnick (adapting her own screenplay) wisely keep '9 to 5'
firmly in its original period. A character plays with a Rubik's Cube; horrid
executive Franklin Hart (the fantastically funny Marc Kudisch)
is gently told he should 'switch to Sanka.'"
– NY Post
"Marc
Kudisch's divinely dastardly Hart is the other. If
there were a Tony Award for best sport, Kudisch would
be a leading contender; his villain is bound, lassoed, shot and poisoned - and
that's just in a Disney-themed hallucination sequence that's one of director
Joe Mantello's more inspired touches. "
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"Kudisch is a hilarious and oddly lovable scoundrel as the 'sexist,
egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot' who fuels the women's revenge fantasies, and his comic chemistry with the irresistible Hilty is especially sharp."
– Variety
"…
the horrible honcho [is] played with delicious
maliciousness by Marc Kudisch."
– NY Daily News
The Glorious Ones (2007)
"Marc
Kudisch dominates the proceedings, by rights and by
the velvety richness of his voice, as the vagabond troupe's confident leader, Flaminio Scala."
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"[The Glorious Ones] is blessed by the
presence of Marc Kudisch, as close as we get today to
a dashing leading-man from the golden-age of musical theater."
–
Linda Winer, Newsday
The Witches of Eastwick
(2007)
"In
the category of Best Featured Performance by a Pelvis, the prize this year goes
by acclamation to the midsection of Marc Kudisch
[who] plays salacious Darryl Van Horne, a.k.a. lord of the underworld... an
independent analysis of Kudisch's DNA finds that his
suitability for the role is encoded on his 10th chromosome (that's the one,
apparently, carrying the gene for showstoppers). In other words, the guy's irresistible, and one of several reasons that this guilty
pleasure of a musical makes a crowd-pleasing bow in its American premiere in Shirlington. …Speaking of personality, Schaeffer imbues his
"Witches" with it. Luckily for him as well as for us, the evening's
star oozes it, too. Devil though he may be, Kudisch
here is heaven-sent."
–
Peter Marks, Washington Post
The Apple Tree (2006)
"All
three of the principals have angelic voices... Mr. Kudisch,
who becomes two very different but equally droll narrators in the second act,
has a canny grasp of the styles he is sending up."
–
Ben Brantley, New York Times
"...Both
d'Arcy James and Kudisch have glorious voices; more
important, they also both have the manly grace and self-deprecation that actors
such as Cary Grant and Robert Preston had to spare, but isn't a common
commodity in today's musical leading men."
– David
Finkle, TheaterMania.com
"As
Snake, Balladeer and Narrator, Marc Kudisch provides
a fiendishly subtle triple threat."
–
Clive Barnes, New York Post
"As
for Kudisch, he so slithers through "Diary"
as the nefarious Snake … that you might find his demented logic just as
seductive as she does. He later becomes so likeable as the Balladeer who leads
us through "Tiger" and as the narrator of "Passionella"
that he seems an entirely different performer altogether, as unthinkable
playing the serpentine Snake as puffed-chest stuffed shirts and
borderline-demonic types he's played so brilliantly throughout his career.
Never has he seemed so comfortable, so versatile, so light on his feet."
– Matthew
Murray, Talkin' Broadway
Summer and Smoke (2006)
"Marc Kudisch [is] excellent…you can see why John Buchanan Jr.,
the hedonistic young doctor Alma has known since their shared childhood, would
be attracted to her. John isn’t a fully drawn role, but Mr. Kudisch
(best known for Broadway musicals like “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”) strikes an
artful balance between sensual self-indulgence and moral self-disgust."
–
Ben Brantley, New York Times
See What I Wanna
See (2005)
"As
the C.P.A. turned bag man, the excellent Mr. Kudisch struts his voice with a variety and penetration never
afforded by his roles in Broadway behemoths like "Thoroughly Modern
Millie.""
–
Ben Brantley, New York Times