MOMMY QUEEREST: It's Jewdy's Show! Press
Washington Post
MOMMY QUEEREST Is Solid Gold Laughs!
By Peter Marks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Judy Gold talks in her new one-woman show, "Mommy Queerest," about the moment she and stand-up comedy found each other. It happened during college, when as part of a holiday game she was required to get up in front of her roommates and friends with a microphone and make fun of every one of them.
Of such larks are fateful connections made, for Gold, the brassy progeny of a New Jersey suburban Jewish family, is authentically uproarious, the sort of compulsively entertaining type who'd keep you laughing even holding court at a corner table in a diner at 2 in the morning.
She is taking the expanded, music-added version of her latest piece for an inaugural spin at Theater J, and it proves a more vivid, and more tickling occasion than her last show, "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother," performed at Theater J in 2008. That prior production had an arty conceit, in which Gold tried to speak in the voices of other Jewish women she'd interviewed. It turns out she's at her very best when she simply kicks back and converses with us in her own. CONTINUE READING
DC Theatre Scene
Mommie Queerest
December 25, 2009
by Steven McKnight
Judy Gold is just like the woman next door. That is, if the woman next door just happens to be a 6 foot 3 inch Jewish lesbian stand-up comic and mother of two. Her one-woman autobiographical show Mommie Queerest, currently running at Theater J, is a wonderful juxtaposition of the mundane, the unusual, and the occasionally outrageous which ends up being a warm and funny delight. CONTINUE READING
Washington Jewish Week
'It's Jewdy's show'
With lots of laughs, Gold mines her life as sit-com
by Lisa Traiger, Arts Correspondent
Just two days after Mayor Adrian Fenty signed a city council bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the District, actress/comedian Judy Gold opened her one-woman show Mommie Queerest (It's Jewdy's Show!) on Sunday at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center's Goldman Theater. The raucous, sometimes bawdy, sometimes bathos-filled 75-minutes makes one woman's case for expanding the boundaries of marriage to include same-sex couples. CONTINUE READING
Washington Examiner
Judy Gold brings raw, unique comedy to D.C.'s Theater J
By: Barbara Mackay
Special to The Examiner
December 28, 2009
Judy Gold has performed at Theater J before, but her last offering there was very different from the current show, "Mommy Queerest (It's Jewdy's Show!)." In "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother," she presented the results of 50 interviews conducted on a cross-country trek to find out the meaning of Jewish motherhood.
In "Mommy Queerest," Gold takes us on a more internal trip, examining the ways in which her personality was formed by her family and by the endless television sitcoms she watched to escape the reality of her own life.
Gold is nothing if not straightforward. She was (so she says) unpopular, a too-tall girl who didn't fit in, who fought with her mother and longed to make people laugh. Happily for the world, Gold followed her dream, becoming a successful stand-up comedienne and a proud, gay mother of two boys. CONTINUE READING
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