"Performing far beyond the call of duty, Marc Kudisch is a magnificently droll Bomburst. A big, booming guy, Kudisch amusingly depicts the bald-domed despot as a kid at heart who simply wants to own every toy in existence."

— Michael Sommers, New Jersey Star-Ledger

"Cranky grown-ups will be most diverted by the performances of Marc Kudisch and especially Ms. Maxwell, who play the child-loathing Baron and Baroness of the empire of Vulgaria and who have been given some appealingly ripe dialogue..."

— Ben Brantley, New York Times

"Kudisch ("Thoroughly Modern Millie") is wildly amusing as the childlike dictator Baron Bombast, clutching a teddy bear and wanting much to be made of his birthday."

Jacques Le Sourd, The Journal News

"But the only two cast members projecting personalities roughly on par with Chitty's are Marc Kudisch and Jan Maxwell. As Baron and Baroness Bomburst, the rulers of Vulgaria who will stop at nothing to capture Chitty and every child within their nation's borders, they relish every line, chew every bit of scenery, and overact with gleeful abandon. But this show needs over-the-top, it needs unique, and that's what Kudisch and Maxwell so gloriously provide. His lightning-quick oscillations between threatening and childish, her dry-as-the-Sahara line readings and anguished wails, and the second-act baby-talk duet ("Chu-Chi-Face") they share give the show the lively zest it's otherwise missing."

— Matthew Murray, Talkin' Broadway

"Marc Kudisch and ... Jan Maxwell ... are terrific as Baron and Baroness Bomburst, a pair with a pathological hatred of children."

— Clive Barnes, New York Post

"Marc Kudisch and Jan Maxwell funnily camp it up as the Baron and Baroness."

— Frank Schenck, Hollywood Reporter

"Best of all, at least for us on the dark side, are Marc Kudisch and Jan Maxwell as the infantilized Baron Bomburst and his child-loathing wife, tyrannical rulers of Vulgaria, whose craven desire to own Chitty is the motor in the plot."

— Linda Winer, Newsday