…Comic relief is nicely rendered by Pain and Panic, the incompetent henchmen working for Hades. Ben Roseberry and Jeff Blumenkrantz deliver lots of fun shtick. Best of all, a hilarious scene featuring the duo pretending to be young boys, their heads cloaked in tiny costumes.
Roma Torre
New York Stage Review
March 2, 2023
…McCalla, Blumenkrantz , Roseberry and Hensley make the most of the book – easily landing the many layered gags and one-liners. Blumenkrantz and Roseberry rapport is incredible and a bauble for the audience.
Adam F. Cohen
New Jersey Stage
March 2, 2023
…Jeff Blumenkrantz delivers a pitch-perfect old man.
Welton Jones
SanDiegoStory.com
August 5, 2019
Broadway cast member Jeff Blumenkrantz , reunited here with Cusack and Shively, is smart and funny as Daryl, a camp but not too arch magazine editor…
Robert Sokol
San Francisco Examiner
December 1, 2017
… jokes delivered for maximum laughter. Speaking of that, Jeff Blumenkrantz as a supporting character, Daryl Ames, wields a punch line like a swinging axe and never misses a cut.
Charles Kruger
TheaterStorm.com
November 30, 2017
As Alice’s two employees, Jeff Blumenkrantz shines as Daryl Ames (reminding me of Richard Deacon’s appearances as Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show)…
George Heymont
Huffington Post
December 5, 2017
As Daryl, one of Alice’s kooky underlings at the journal, Jeff Blumenkrantz reels off his character’s campy wisecracks with delicious sass.
Charles McNulty
LA Times
October 23, 2017
There is also fantastic humor in Alice’s office with assistants Lucy (Kaitlyn Davidson) and Daryl (Jeff Blumenkrantz) who literally tear up the scenery with hilarious takes on their boss and the publishing business.
Don Grigware
Broadway World
October 23, 2017
Providing much of the well needed laughter to offset the drama of the main storyline are Jeff Blumenkrantz and Kaitlyn Davidson as the duo who work for the usually icy Alice. They not only score every one of their jokes but have added richness and texture to their characters and give you the sense that these two office workers have a great working relationship and friendship even when they are playfully nipping at each other’s heels.
Stephen Radosh
Gay Desert Guide
October 22, 2017
Jeff Blumenkrantz is marvelously humorous and pitiful as Menelaus, Helen’s jilted husband.
Darryl Reilly
TheatreScene.net
May 13, 2017
Jeff Blumenkrantz is dryly comedic as a conniving foundation apparatchik.
Darryl Reilly
TheatreScene.net
July 30, 2016
Good as the supporting players are, particularly Blumenkrantz (a hoot in an extraneous Paul Lynde part) ….
Matthew Murray
TalkinBroadway.com
March 24, 2016
Walter Bobbie … gets the occasional opportunity to liven up the action, especially when he hands the stage to Emily Padgett, as a sassy journal employee, and Jeff Blumenkrantz, as a co-worker and wannabe writer. Their jokes aren’t the best, but they pop them off of each other with flair.
Michael Dale
BroadwayWorld.com
March 24, 2016
In the Ashville office mix are Ms. Murphy’s employees, the always delightful Jeff Blumenkrantz and sexy co-worker, played by Emily Padgett, providing some humorous moments.
Sandi Durell
Theater Pizzazz
April 1, 2016
Tall, lanky, loose-limbed goofy dancer/actor/singer Jeff Blumenkrantz as Daryl, the would-be writer and dour keeper of the gate at Alice’s literary agency, steals every scene he is in. He is Bright Star‘s comic relief and great fun to watch.
Susan Davidson
CurtainUp.com
December 19, 2015
Actor/composer Jeff Blumenkrantz seems an unlikely choice for the Beadle, but he brings a fittingly sinister air to the proceedings. His interactions with Ms. Thompson in the Parlor sequence suggest new colors in the piece.
Stephen Suskin
Huffington Post
March 6, 2014
…it’s really Blumenkrantz ’s show, and he delights in the freedom he’s afforded, easily swapping between and differentiating among the 10 characters he plays… It’s undeniably fun watching Blumenkrantz flit from personality to personality…
Katie Buenneke
LA Weekly
June 6, 2015
Blumenkrantz as all the suspects makes no costume changes, but in the blink of an eye, converts from host Arthur Whitney to his flustered wife to a neighbor who sounds remarkably like Jimmy Stewart to Lewis to Steph and back and forth in a whirlwind of minor facial and vocal alterations with next to no props. His is a remarkable performance and he is so much fun to watch from second to second, as one never knows what’s coming next. And of course, this unpredictability steals the show and seals its success.
BroadwayWorld.com
Don Grigware
June 5, 2015
The tall, lanky, and bald Jeff Blumenkrantz wows as the gaggle of possible perpetrators…
CurtainUp.com
John Magaril
June 2015
Yes, Blumenkrantz plays them all in a tour de force that keeps our jaws hovering near the floor as the actor practically drowns in a puddle of his own sweat. Oh, and he also accompanies himself on the piano, occasionally playing four-handed alongside Ryback. It is thrilling to watch these two performers work. Blumenkrantz contorts his rubbery face and modulates his formidable voice to create 10 different personalities. His characterizations are so clear and specific that little is needed in terms of design to differentiate the roles. A pair of glasses here, a baseball cap there, costume designer Andrea Lauer uses a light brush to accent Blumenkrantz ‘s heavy strokes…
Zachary Stewart
Theatremania.com
November 6, 2013
…what makes it so fresh and fun is… the remarkable and protean Jeff Blumenkrantz ’s performance as the many suspects. He’s a gifted comedian, an elastic-faced clown, and also a respectable actor. His rapid-fire character shifts bring this comedy to its most dizzying heights…
Jesse Oxfeld
NY Observer
July 30, 2013
In the razzle-dazzle role of the suspects, Mr. Blumenkrantz whizzes from character to character with head-spinning dexterity, differentiating most only through a capacious grab bag of silly accents and precise, persona-defining gestures.
Charles Isherwood
The New York Times
July 25, 2013
A production like Murder for Two lives and dies by its performers, and director Scott Schwartz found two aces… But the show belongs to Blumenkrantz . In a very funny, all-stops-out, comic sprint, he portrays everyone from a dweeby Nancy Drew-wannabe niece of the victim, a former dancer with ”m’hip issues” and, most fun of all, select members of a boys’ choir, which allows Blumenkrantz to perform an entire number on his knees using only a baseball cap to differentiate the youngsters. It’s a marathon role, but Blumenkrantz is the first to the finish line.
Jason Clark
Entertainment Weekly
July 25, 2013
…it’s Blumenkrantz ’s high-energy, often hilarious, sometimes touching performance that makes this playful ninety-minute piece stand out.
Goings On About Town
The New Yorker
Edward Hibbert, Jeff Blumenkrantz and John Ellison Conlee are infectiously high on the stench of their characters’ rottenness.
Ben Brantley
The New York Times
April 10, 2010
When she and her charges (known as “Cookies”) are turned away by Schub and his cronies (played with appealing cartoonishness by Jeff Blumenkrantz and John Ellison Conlee)…, Fay vows to reveal the plot herself.
Andy Propst
Theatremania.com
April 9, 2010
Janine LaManna and Jeff Blumenkrantz give the funniest and most enjoyable performances of the evening, though one turns the eye toward LuPone, Chenoweth and Groves, it is LaManna and Blumenkrantz who have done their comic homework and play their roles nobly.
Adam Hetrick
Edge Boston
May 17, 2005
Jeff Blumenkrantz does a hilarious version of Marvin Hamlisch.
Howard Kissel
NY Daily News
March 12, 2001
Jeff Blumenkrantz ’s dead on Marvin Hamlisch is a show stopper in the second act.
Philip Kain
about.com
…David Hibbard and Jeff Blumenkrantz , who in the course of their protean duties, turn in wickedly satiric sketches of Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch respectively…
Clive Barnes
NY Post
March 12, 2001
Jeff Blumenkrantz gets the evening’s biggest laugh when he dons a mane of curly hair and some outlandish ’70s duds to transform himself into Kleban’s Chorus Line collaborator, Marvin Hamlisch.
Martin Denton
nytheatre.com
She is encouraging to Dr. Kitchell (the zanily nerdy Jeff Blumenkrantz ), a dentist who aspires to be a songwriter.
Lloyd Rose
Washington Post
July 18, 1998
Jeff Blumenkrantz ‘s Bud Frump, tall, loose-limbed and dim of mind, is a cartoon figure made almost human by the breathtaking, last-minute ploys by which Finch outmaneuvers him from the mail room to the chairmanship.
Vincent Canby
The New York Times
March 24, 1995
Jeff Blumenkrantz , a beanpole with glasses, is terrifically smarmy as Biggley’s whiny, talent-free nephew…
Jeremy Gerard
Variety
March 27, 1995
Charles Nelson Reilly turned Biggley’s nephew Bud Frump into a smug, portly dweeb. To equally good effect, Jeff Blumenkrantz makes him a skinny, nervous and slightly foppish nerd, beset as much by ambition as by incompetence.
Margo Jefferson
The New York Times
April 2, 1995
…Jeff Blumenkrantz makes Frump, the hero’s nemesis, into a joyous three-dimensional grotesque, compounding equal parts of Charles Nelson Reilly, Edward Everett Horton, and our own Michael Musto.
Michael Feingold
The Village Voice
April 4, 1995
Jeff Blumenkrantz is especially good as the boss’ obnoxious nephew, the sort of ’50s geek on which Elvis Costello modeled his image.
Linda Winer
NY Newsday
March 24, 1995
…special kudos perhaps to Jeff Blumenkrantz as that deliciously odious streak of nepotism, Frump…
Clive Barnes
NY Post
March 24, 1995
STAMOS MEANS “BUSINESS”
The splendiferous production as a whole – the staging is by Des McAnuff – looks as bright and as lively as ever, and the rest of the cast remains in place. Let me give special kind words to…Jeff Blumenkrantz as that hysteric nerd, Frump.
Incidentally, if they ever need another Finch along the line, Blumenkrantz might be an intelligent choice. (Is he, by any chance, a TV star?)
Clive Barnes
NY Post
Jan. 5, 1996
QUIRKY TONY NOMS HAVE BROADWAY FOLKS PUZZLED
Also among the missing: Jeff Blumenkrantz , who comes close to stealing How to Succeed as the deliciously malicious Bud Frump….
Robert Osborne
The Hollywood Reporter
May 11, 1995
Rob Marshall is the choreographer, and his most relishable work comes in the athletic numbers which feature the endearingly bumbling baseball team [including] the outstandingly gawky and clownish Jeff Blumenkrantz .
George Weinberg-Harter
Drama-Logue
Oct. 1993
Jack Spratt-skinny Jeff Blumenkrantz is a hoot as the hapless pitcher, Smokey.
Christine Dolen
The Miami Herald
All dance with zest, and a lanky, mop-headed young fellow named Jeff Blumenkrantz shows signs of being able to do more than that if he were given more than a 2 1/2-cent role.
Walter Goodman
The New York Times
November 5, 1986