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Praise for
SQUEEZE BOX L.A. Weekly
2002 Theater Award for Best Solo Performance
of 2002
L.A. Times
2002 Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Solo Performance
Squeeze Box Reviews:
Now "Squeeze Box" has
come to New York, and it's clear what Ms. Bancroft, now the show's
producer,
saw in it... Ms. Randolph... has a definite talent for sketch comedy... —
The New York Times
Such warmth and frankness are in short supply
in the theater, so go and bask while you can. Her piece has been
optioned for film rights,
and this off-Broadway run may catapult her to bigger and better places.
If you go now, you get a bargain.You want to see her after she’s
a star? That, as Brandy would say, will cost extra.
— The New York Sun
Revolutionary... Whitmanesque... A gem of
a show.
— Entertainment Weekly
This combination of compassionate storytelling,
humor and frank confessions... makes for an enjoyable evening of
theater.
— Broadway.com
Squeeze Box is a simple piece of theatre and Randolph is funny, gawky,
and poignantly touching. There is no political agenda to the play,
no terminal disease, no screaming battle—just the contribution
of a life, dealing with real issues, insecurities, and passions. I
encourage you witness this refreshing experience on the New York stage.
— NYTheater.com
To Ann Randolph, when an accordion is in
the right hands, it can produce ballads as lush and romantic as the
finest string quartet, as if an
entire symphony orchestra is housed within that single instrument.
...By the end of her one-woman play Squeeze Box... she'll have you
believing it as well.
— talkingbroadway.com
The immensely amiable Ms. Randolph has got
a slightly off-kilter sense of humor that keeps you on your toes
through even the most familiar
territory.
— broadwayworld.com
Randolph’s show, which has been brought
to New York by actress (now producer) Anne Bancroft, comes filled
with many charms.
— American Theater Web
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"When I first saw this production, I was deeply moved. Ann Randolph's
amazing work, both as a writer and fellow performer, touched my heart
and my mind so profoundly that
I felt it belonged on the New York stage." — Anne Bancroft
With pathos and humor, Randolph skillfully weaves together stories about
working in a women's homeless shelter and the pursuit of true love. Her
painfully funny portraits of the shelter's residents, and hilarious account
of her hiking trip with Harold, the accordionist of her dreams, are beautifully
drawn in this poignant tale about finding dignity and grace in unusual
places.
Randolph, who has been compared to the late Gilda Radner, uses
her elastic face, acrobatic voice, and attuned body language to play
male and female,
young and old characters. With just a chair, banjo, guitar and lights,
she brings to immediate, pulsing life her tragicomic journey of discovery
and self-acceptance with remarkable freshness and vibrancy.
Randolph
wrote Squeeze Box while working the graveyard shift at a homeless
shelter for mentally ill women where she's worked for the
past ten years. She recently performed excerpts from "Squeeze
Box" on National Public Radio's new program Public Radio Weekend
and on PBS. Randolph began working with the chronic mentally ill while
attending college, where she received room and board from a state mental
hospital in exchange for writing original comedies with schizophrenics.
NEWS about SQUEEZE BOX:
 What's
so funny about poverty, mental illness, and homelessness?
— The Boston Globe
Familiar
story told with wit, comic edge
— The Boston Globe
Life
is a tight squeeze
— The Scotsman
Ann
Randolph brings energy and a strong presence to multi-character show
Squeeze Box — Review
— NowToronto.com
Interview
with Ann Randolph
— ActorsLife.com
'Squeeze
Box': Review
— NYC CityGuideMagazine.com
'Squeeze
Box': Finding Humor on the Night Shift
— National Public Radio – 9/20/04 with audio
clip
Ann
Randolph skillfully weaves together her personal experience...
— NYC CityGuideMagazine.com
The
one and only Mel Brooks discusses the play "Squeeze Box"
— WNYC-FM – 8/28/04 with audio clip
Famous
Producers Discover "Squeze Box"
— NY1 News – 8/11/2004 with video clip
Feeling
the 'Squeeze' of Homelessness, Midlife and Romance
— American Theater Web – 8/2/2004
One
of Those Lightning Strikes That Happen in Los Angeles
— New York Times – 7/31/2004 Squeeze
Box : Laughs from an Unlikely Source
— Broadwayworld.com – 7/31/2004
Squeeze
Box: Review by Kevin Connell
— NYTheater.com – 7/29/2004 Squeeze
Box: Review by Matthew Murray
— TalkinBroadway.com – 7/29/2004
Squeeze
Box: Review by Ron Lasko
— Broadway.com – 7/27/2004
Celebrating
Squeeze Box with a Small Party
— Broadway.com – 7/27/2004
'Squeeze
Box' actress is off-Broadway bound
— Cincinnati Enquirer – 7/11/2004
Anne
Bancroft Becoming A Producer
— NY Times – 6/30/2004
Anne
Bancroft Becomes Off-Broadway Producer With Squeeze Box
— Playbill – 6/30/2004
Thesp
tries on producer hat — Bancroft makes legit producer debut with 'Squeeze
Box'
— Variety – 6/29/04 (subscription required to view) |
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