Heather Dudenbostel and Danielle Barnum are literally and figuratively fantastic in Into the Woods
Dudenbostel is a beautiful, wounded and touching Julie. Her singing voice is magnificent, but her finest moment comes near the end of the play as she silently watches Magnolia's tortured audition for a nightclub owner.
Heather Dudenbostel is a lovely Julie, the troubled blues singer whose second departure, like her first, gives Magnolia a chance at stardom. Dressed in elegant style, in dark green and gold, she is a dynamic sight to behold. Her singing and acting in both acts was touching and emotional.
My favorite part of the show were a few of the smaller parts, [including] Old Lady Passerby played by Heather Dudenbostel.
Heather Meagher is mesmerizing as Maggie and gives a solid performance... She conveys everything the audience needs to know with an expressive face and graceful, sensuous movements projecting an undercurrent of vulnerability with an edge. Her Maggie is a magnolia with a spine of steel.
[The] performance was animated and full of fun. The wide range and musicality of Meagher’s soprano voice did not go unnoticed.
Heather Meagher, as the long-married wife, is a genuinely gifted comedienne and has a number of outstanding moments; impressive is her “Getting Married Today” delivered at breakneck speed. Whether Meagher is frolicking as a “Rich and Happy” New Yorker, a loopy and dispirited member of the “Ladies Who Lunch,” or a desperate searcher for “Country House” happiness, Meagher is quite special.
...brilliantly uninhibited...
That girl [Sophie] is played to Southern-fried perfection by Heather Dudenbostel Dudenbostel plays the character... to the hilt with a very authentic accent and attitude. Sophie is a patriotic Amurrican right down to her red-white-and-blue swimsuit and Dudenbostel makes you want to stand up and salute.
It's always an enormous challenge for an actor to play a role that is so identified with a particular performer (Goldie Hawn). Heather Dudenbostel is more than up to the challenge. She conveys all the ditzy charm of the character, Jill Tanner, while making it thoroughly her own. Her career is going to be worth following.
...played with brittle perfection by the delightful Heather Dudenbostel.