Kudisch & Denman's delightful & tuneful THE HOLIDAY GUYS

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Posted: 12/10/09 at 1:06pm

Saw this on Monday - highly recomended.

In a season jam-packed with Broadway Christmas-Holiday cabaret shows, Jeffry Denman & Marc Kudisch's "Holiday Guys" at the Gotham Comedy Club on Mondays is an especially droll and musically effervescent event.
Set before a fireplace decorated with a menorah and Christmas greenery and billed as a celebration of "Happy-Merry-Hannu-Mas", much of the humor is derived from the both the contrast between "the Jew and the Goy" and the shared warmth of the two December holidays. Denman (on Uke) and Kudisch's (on guitar) voices blend surprisingly and uncommonly well (who knew that Kudisch's voice could blend with anyone?!) on such favorites as God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Auld Lang Syne and a few songs in Hebrew. And yes, Denman dances a one-man dream ballet.
There were two guest stars: Jill Paice and Daniel Reichard (don't want to spoil what they did...it will repeated by other guest stars in each show. And the guys even distributed wrapped presents to audience members!


There's a lot of funny in the show (Kudisch's "A Lonely Jew at Christmas" from SOUTH PARK, and a two-man version of NUTCRACKER) but what most people came away with on Monday night was that they 1.) got them into the spirit and 2.) there was a lot of heart in the show. As silly as it is, it's coming from a place of genuine love of the holidays.
The Jew and The Goy