Ann Randolph's Wickedly Funny One-Woman Show Squeeze Box at the Marsh
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater (1062 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94110)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $22.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $11.00*
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All offers for Squeeze Box have expired.
The last date listed for Squeeze Box was Sunday December 14, 2008 / 7:00pm.
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36 Goldstar Member Reviews
Kenyon
Funny, well-acted, inspiring - a good night of theatre.Written on Jun 23 2008
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bk
A funny slice of life from inside the world of crazy homeless people.Written on May 26 2008
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Sandra
Laughed thruout.......very funny gal with a great story and wonderful characters. Go and see. You will be entertained and have a greatWritten on Jun 16 2008
evening supporting a talented woman.
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More Information About Squeeze Box
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Quotes & Highlights
- See a video of Randolph, Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft discussing the show at Randolph's website.
- The show was a success with Goldstar members in Los Angeles venues the Zephyr and Steinway Hall.
- "Rubber-faced Randolph is wickedly hysterical." --Los Angeles Times
- "Randolph allows us to see ourselves in and among people who seem utterly removed from our urban existence." --LA Weekly
- “Hilarious and generally outrageous... a natural-born performer with a veteran's chops...a quiet sense of the miraculous" --Bay Guardian
Description
The Marsh is proud to present Ann Randolph’s Squeeze Box, produced off-Broadway by the legendary Mel Brooks and the late Anne Bancroft. Squeeze Box tells the painfully funny story of Randolph’s crazy minimum wage life working the graveyard shift at a homeless shelter for mentally ill women while pretending to be a hugely successful "consultant" to Harold, an impassioned accordionist and man of her dreams.
Randolph, who has been compared to the late Gilda Radner, brings this unlikely cast of characters to outrageous, pulsing life and shows us how they help her find her own answers to life’s big questions. With nothing but a chair, banjo, guitar and lights to assist her, she invites us to follow along on this tragicomic journey of discovery and self-acceptance.
After the show, Randolph will be performing excerpts from her new work-in-progress—a hilarious account centering somewhat loosely on the travails of owning a downscale apartment building in artsy, affluent Santa Monica and on the eccentric characters who are its tenants. She will also screen several "performance art" sequences during which she is impersonates Brandy, a homeless Squeeze Box character, on the streets of Los Angeles, and catches the real time reactions of passers by on camera.
Randolph actually did work the graveyard shift at a homeless shelter – for ten years in fact – and wrote Squeeze Box while she was there. The show is currently touring North America after completing a successful off-Broadway run in New York. She has performed excerpts on National Public Radio's new program “Public Radio Weekend” and on PBS.
Born and raised in Ohio, Randolph began her career by writing an original comedy for the patients at the Athens State Mental Hospital where she lived for three years while working her way through college. The hospital gave her free room and board in exchange for writing and staging plays with the patients. Since then, she has written many shows and performed all over the country. In 2000, her play “Ann Randolph Miss America” was nominated for “best solo show” by the LA Weekly. Her numerous sketch show performances include “Groundlings,” “Unsafe Sketch” and “Cross Your Legs.” As a radio personality, Randolph writes essays for NPR, Weekend America and the BBC. Her first short movie, “Reservations," was selected “Best of the Fest” at the 2003 Venice (LA) Film Festival.
In the past year, she has been working with the infamous rapper, Master P, writing and starring in “If the Shoe Fits, Wear It” and the soon to be released film with Kat Williams and Master P called “Internet Dating.” Master P plans to bring his P. Miller Youth Centers, Food Foundation for the Homeless and new speaking program on financial literacy to the Bay Area.