Lonny Price
Lonny Price
Lonny Priceis an American actor, writer, and director, primarily in theatre. He is perhaps best known for his creation of the role of Charley Kringas in the Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along. Eventually he moved into primarily directing for the stage and is now known for making statements on current events in versions of his musicals. His acclaimed May 2008 New York Philharmonic production of Camelot was making a statement about the current war including having different ethnicities and...
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth9 March 1959
afraid alienate bit production question trouble
This production may alienate some people, ... But I do think we're a bit afraid to question things these days, and get in trouble when we do.
great high leave night opening packing quite reviews roller saturday stuff theater thursday
To go from the high of Thursday night -- which had been a great opening -- to the disappointment of Friday's reviews to Saturday packing up our stuff to leave the theater to Saturday night saying, 'We're going to run' -- it's been quite a roller coaster.
closing cut informed planned producers songs
We had planned to do a medley of all the songs we cut from the show during previews. But the producers just informed me that we are not closing tonight.
album bought course exciting listening music peers rolling since strange
It was the most exciting music I'd ever heard, ... And 'Company' was the first album -- as in old-fashioned LP -- I ever bought for myself, which of course was pretty strange since all my peers were listening to the Rolling Stones.
against biggest blue conformity crazy days everybody joining labeled line looks question red seems shut speaking speaks states time
Plus, the show is very interesting to me politically at the moment, ... I think it speaks to our time in the way it looks at conformity and individualism and the whole question of speaking out. It seems to me these days that everybody is just joining the biggest line and not questioning things. And there's a lot of finger-pointing, with the red states against the blue ones, and those in the blue states labeled crazy while those in the red ones try to shut them up.