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Stephen Axelrod presents his one-man play Blue
Collar Bay at the Connetquot Public Library. |
Axelrod injected humor, pathos, and an abundance of passion into his heart-rendering tale of a father and son tug of war.Generously sharing his family's sorrows and celebrations, the actor guided his fellow afternoon travelers through an emotional rollercoaster ride with his superior verbal and physical skills. |
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- Cary Maya, The Suffolk County News |
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Steve Axelrod's
one-man show Blue
Collar Bay is composed entirely of the vulnerability-packed
autobiographical elements that men tell women on the third
date: I was left back in the fifth grade. My father drove
a truck for 44 years. I felt like an imposter at an impressive
job. Blue
Collar Bay is fabulously written (in collaboration
with Elisabeth Karlin) and wonderfully well-executed by
Mr. Axelrod. It is interesting and completely satisfying. |
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| In "Blue
Collar Bay", an actor named Steve Axelrod,
enacted the story of how his father, a devout Jew and
true-blue union man who spent his life delivering the
New York Daily News by truck, apprenticed his son to the
trade as a "loading boy" and would never let
him grow out of it. Eventually the son finds his way out
of this loop and onto the New York Stock Exchange. Axelrod's
effort rang so true, one can only hope there will be a
return engagement. |
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- The New York Jewish Week |
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EXTRA!
EXTRA! He's driving to B'way! |
| Ever see those newspaper trucks
rolling helter skelter through the night? Ever wonder
what the guy who is driving it is like? Well, that was
me!" laughed Steve Axelrod, who pushed a Daily News
truck for years. "My grandfather started driving
a newspaper truck in 1922 and brought my father and my
uncles into the business. Then my Dad brought me in. I
remember the day I got my union card, it was New Year's
Eve, the biggest thing that could happen. But it was really
not for me, so eventually I quit." Axelrod used to
make big bucks driving a Daily News truck from Brooklyn
to Babylon and Huntington, L.I. He had it so good as a
kid in Cambria Heights, Queens, that he flopped in seven
High Schools waiting for his union card. "It wasn't
cut out for me, so I joined the Marines and after that,
studied drama at Hunter College and I got the acting bug".
And now he's co-producing and starring in "Blue
Collar Bay". |
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| "The manner in which Stephen offers his memoir is as if we are sitting in the living room chatting with our family" |
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