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69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
Crime & Variations
Death Blow II: ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine: ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inqisition
nEO - surrealists present: ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Darogue
Reviewer Email: darogue@itcamefromfresno.com
Rating: 5 Stars
O.K.... the whale on stage got me! Loved the show! Then again... loved your
shows since "Number 2!"
cheers!
Play: sandwich
Reviewer: gargantua
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Rating: None
Best of Fringe, baby. Fantastic performances, incredible energy. Music and
costumes goddamn. The armadillo transformation in particular a well-done
section, with GREAT text. Experimental while staying fun. Direct correlary
to the old-old-school surrealist-dada-futurist cabaret work (or so I'd like
to think). And, people, STOP calling this piece absurdist - for anal theatre
nerds like me that means something different. Surreal - yes, but there's
no Sysiphean character. Anyways, enough yammering. It is great (although
the rabbit sequences could have moved faster). Fin
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Walter Igot
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Rating: None
Loud
No Point
Play: sandwich
Reviewer: Bill M.
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Rating: 1 Star
1 star because they showed up. Other than that, this is self indulgent crap.
All these rave reviews must be written by either the cast or their friends.
Some folks seem to like them though, but again they must know the performers.
I was completely bored, this is honestly stupid childish junk. Stay away
from this... don't waste your time or money.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Darryl Henry
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Rating: 3 Stars
3 stars. Absurdist theatre. Singing animals......and the world's largest
armadillo. No real message, a light way to spend an hour. Quite amoooooosing.
If you don't like the smell of bacon, sit in the back or don't attend
Play: SANDWICH
Reviewer: Derek Mutch
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Rating: 5 Stars
Do you like Pee Wee's Playhouse? Do you like Fractured Fairytales? Do you
like Urinetown or Threepenny Opera?
Whether you do or not, you should see SANDWICH as soon as you can because there's nothing else like it in the world. It's better than any of those other things I mentioned, anyway.
A musical about cruelty and food - it is brazenly and wildly theatrical.
Let's think about what it means for human beings to be continually slaughtering animals and packaging the remains in an attractive and mouth-watering fashion for other human beings to consume without getting blood on their hands. Do we feel okay about this?
How do we feel when our pet kitty kills a bird, or, God forbid, a fuzzy bunny!
Let's think about that and laugh!
Let's sing about it and cry!
"I'm going to count to 5 and then I'm going to eat you if you don't tell me you know you're alive."
That, or something to that effect, is spoken to a carrot.
Yes, carrots are or were alive! But do they know it? And can they tell you?
Where do we draw the line?
Perhaps we should Embrace the Glory of the CARNIVORE! (eh, Kitty?) Stop Worrying and Love the Meat!
These are ideas, and I love a show with ideas, but what makes me so enthusiastic about SANDWICH is that it is fun, it is smart, it is vibrant, bold, subversive, hilarious, surprising, and it has great costumes and great music!
Go with your gut.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Dancing Dragonfly
Reviewer Email: rrarik@aol.com
Rating: 2 Stars
Repetitive and nearly pointless. Gets a second star for the costumes and
singing.
I have seem improv better than this. It's hard to believe this was scripted.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Don Wood
Reviewer Email: don_wood@gap.com
Rating: 5 Stars
I love sandwiches. I love cats. I love cartoons in The New Yorker. The essence
of all three (hell,sometimes the actual thing) and more are displayed in
this fine show. The two fez-clad sandwich makers were way funnier than Shriners.
The cat was a fine actor...it must have been acting...it had a conscience.
And the buffalo's piano skills were amazing, despite what appeared to be
a massive head injury. Check it out!
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: noah
Reviewer Email: noah@ripetreats.com
Rating: 5 Stars
BB&B serves up yet another delicious hit. This genius quartet will not
only hand you a gift, but may convert you to Jainism.
See this show.
It's scrumptious and stinky.
And perrrfect.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Nick
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Rating: 3 Stars
A disappointment after Gulag Ha Ha last year. Good absurdist theater should
be more than just a bizarre collection of pieces. It should teach us something,
make us think. Sandwich does neither. Once you get over the cuteness of
the animal costumes and the novelty of smelling bacon, all you are left
with is vaporware. The show does get going in the second half with the armadillo
part but by that time they had lost me. The show is kept above water by
outstanding performances from the cast, however.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: lizza
Reviewer Email: emaher@virnig.com
Rating: 4 Stars
It's Fringe. This was the first play I saw at Fringe - and the best. It
IS Fringe. I have been singing "The Pig was my Friend" all week.
Hooray for BB&B!!!
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Darwin Heimlich
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Rating: 4 Stars
If you like your plays absurd, this piece is for you. Banana Bag and Bodice
have the miraculous ability to make you laugh one second, then turn right
around and make you hate your very existence. They consistently produce
plays that are absurd without being annoying, with humor that sticks in
your mind for years afterword. I laughed, I was traumatized. Sandwich! SAND-WICH
Play: sandwich
Reviewer: Alexander Lewis
Reviewer Email: alexanderlewis99@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
surrealist fringe madness at its best. jason is hot
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Vince Vitale
Reviewer Email: WorldGazer@aol.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Banana, Bag and Bodice always delivers us primo absurdist work. But nothing
could have prepared me for “Sandwich, THE MUSICAL.” Totally blown
away am I!!!! Yes, an absurdist musical, complete with piano accompaniment
and costumes. Show up early; the feast begins while people take their seats.
My brain synapses began firing and just wouldn’t stop. My left brain
kept looking for a vegetarian or carnivore perspective, but that’s
absurd, of course. Pet the kitty, kill the bunny . . . buy the ticket.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: tara
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Rating: 5 Stars
Just a few reasons to see this show:
1) Marvelous, outlandish costumes
2) Catchy, kick-ass songs (including an especially memorable country-western number)
3) The deeee-licious smell of cooking bacon
4) The anti-program program
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Rich
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Rating: 5 Stars
Absolutely hilarious, wonderfully creative and unlike anything I've ever
seen before. A blast not to miss.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Alan
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Rating: 5 Stars
Nothing smells so good as bacon frying. This wonderfully fun, strange trip
has wonderful costumes, music, humor, great performances, and even a message!
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: Greg Browman
Reviewer Email: greg@bestperspective.com
Rating: 5 Stars
This show is what the Fringe is all about. Creativity, talent and spontaneity
from one moment to the next with plenty of point for thinking. Surprisingly
good musical numbers for absurdist theatre. If I wasn't laughing I was smiling
or thinking or singing or drinking beer or dreaming of my past cat relationships.
Food is such a hot issue these days. Must see this show even if just to
be cool.
Play: Sandwich
Reviewer: jes'fine
Reviewer Email: jes_fine@hotmail.com
Rating: 5 Stars
Welcome to Hello ,Kitty: The Surreal Years. Might possibly be about the
politics of food. Who , or what, gets eaten and why. But, with absurdist
drama you have to keep your options open. A very strange , mesmerizing ,
musical 40 minutes. Must see. Vegetarians and relatively mature vegans could
enjoy this show.