Recherchez un film ou une personnalité :
FacebookConnexionInscription
Lonny Price est un Acteur et Réalisateur Américain né le 9 mars 1959 à New York (Etats-Unis)

Lonny Price

Lonny Price
  • Infos
  • Photos
  • Meilleurs films
  • Famille
  • Personnages
  • Récompenses
Si vous aimez cette personne, faites-le savoir !
Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 9 mars 1959 (65 ans) à New York (Etats-Unis)

Lonny Price (born March 9, 1959) is 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 modernized characters. Mr. Price stated this in an interview before Camelot opened.

Biographie

Early life and career
Born in New York City, Price grew up in Metuchen, New Jersey. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. His early career was spent performing in off-Broadway productions. His first major Broadway credit was the ill-fated Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along (1981), which underwent constant changes during an unusually long preview period and closed after only sixteen performances. He had better luck with his next project - the Athol Fugard play "Master Harold"...and the Boys, in which he portrayed a South African student opposite Danny Glover and Zakes Mokae as the family servants - which ran for eight months.

In 1989, he appeared as Jimmy Durante in the musical bio DURANTE. It was playing in San Francisco during the earthquake. Excellent in the role but Durante's life was uneventful and the musical closed on the road.


Direction
Price made his directorial debut with the off-Broadway revival of The Education of H* Y* M* A* N K* A* P* L* A* N, followed by The Rothschilds and Juno, both of which received Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Revival. His most significant off-Broadway performing credit is the William Finn – James Lapine musical Falsettoland.

He has also directed numerous musical productions, both concert and non-concert, with the New York Philharmonic, which include Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with Patti LuPone and George Hearn, for which he won an Emmy Award, Leonard Bernstein's Candide, with Kristin Chenoweth, Sir Thomas Allen, Patti LuPone, and students from Juilliard and the Westminster Choir College Symphonic Choir, Passion with Patti LuPone, Camelot with Gabriel Byrne, Marin Mazzie, Christopher Lloyd, and Nathan Gunn, amongst other productions. In March 2010, he conceived and directed Sondheim! The Birthday Concert Live at Carnegie Hall, celebrating the famed composer-lyricist's 80th Birthday. The television broadcast was nominated for several Emmy Awards, and Mr. Price won for 'Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Special'. April 2011 found him directing an acclaimed concert production of Sondheim's Company with Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Martha Plimpton, Christina Hendricks, and Patti LuPone, backed by the New York Philharmonic.

He has also directed numerous productions at the Chicago Ravinia Festival, including Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Sunday in the Park With George, Anyone Can Whistle, Passion, and Annie Get Your Gun. Frequent collaborators for his productions include Tony Award-winning performers Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Michael Cerveris, and George Hearn, and legendary musical director and conductor Paul Gemignani.

In 2000, Price co-wrote, directed, and starred in A Class Act, based on the life and career of composer – lyricist Edward Kleban, whose sole Broadway credit was A Chorus Line. The score consisted of songs Kleban had written for other shows that remained unproduced. After a two-month run at the Manhattan Theatre Club, it transferred to the Ambassador Theatre, where it fared less successfully and closed after three months. It earned Price his sole Tony Award nomination to date, for Best Book of a Musical. The show was also nominated for four other Tony Awards, including Best Musical. He also directed a Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade at the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2007, starring Audra McDonald.

Price served as Associate Artistic Director for the American Jewish Theatre from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. He currently is resident director at Musical Theatre Works, the only non-profit theatre dedicated solely to the development of new musicals.


Acting credits
Price's limited film and television credits include small roles in The Muppets Take Manhattan and Dirty Dancing and guest appearances on The Golden Girls and Law & Order. Behind the scenes, he was a staff director for the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, for which he was part of a team that received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series Directing in 1995.

Le plus souvent avec

Dick Maas
Dick Maas
(1 films)
Joseph Brooks
Joseph Brooks
(1 films)
Frank Oz
Frank Oz
(1 films)
Jim Henson
Jim Henson
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Lonny Price (7 films)

Afficher la filmographie sous forme de liste

Acteur

Les Gravos en Amérique, 1h35
Réalisé par Dick Maas
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Huub Stapel, Tatjana Šimić, Nelly Frijda, Jon Polito, Lou Landré, Lonny Price
Rôle Geoffrey
Note56% 2.80222.80222.80222.80222.8022
Imaginez que la célèbre famille vient d’être choisie un échange culturel avec les États-Unis. Coup dur pour pauvres américains qui ne savent pas ce qui les attend.
Hot to Trot, 1h28
Réalisé par Michael Dinner
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Sport, Les chevaux, Equitation
Acteurs Bobcat Goldthwait, John Candy, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler, Cindy Pickett
Rôle Frank
Note44% 2.2101252.2101252.2101252.2101252.210125
Fred P. Chaney reçoit en héritage après le décès de sa mère un cheval parlant qui a aussi une bonne connaissance de la bourse. Avec l'aide de ce cheval Fred gagne beaucoup à la bourse de Chicago. Ld
Danse lascive, 1h45
Réalisé par Emile Ardolino
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie musicale, Musical, Romance
Thèmes Danse, Féminisme, La grossesse, La musique, Sexualité, Transport, Musique, Politique, Road movie
Acteurs Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Kelly Bishop
Rôle Neil Kellerman
Note70% 3.503813.503813.503813.503813.50381
Été 1963, Bébé (Baby en VO) — de son vrai prénom Frédérique (Frances en VO) — fille cadette de 17 ans d'une riche famille américaine, passe ses vacances avec ses parents et sa sœur dans la région des montagnes Catskill dans l'État de New York, à la pension de la famille Kellerman. Elle se trouve mêlée à la vie des employés de la pension et se trouve confrontée à un monde qui lui est complètement étranger, celui de la danse. Malgré le désaccord de son père, Bébé connaît une histoire d'amour avec Johnny, professeur de danse de l'établissement, qui est issu d'un milieu social très différent de celui de la jeune femme.
Les Muppets à Manhattan, 1h34
Réalisé par Frank Oz
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie musicale, Musical, Romance
Thèmes Maladie, La musique, Musique, Folie, Le handicap, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Jim Henson, Art Carney, Frank Oz, Louis Zorich, Julianna Donald, Linda Lavin
Rôle Ronnie
Note67% 3.3974653.3974653.3974653.3974653.397465
Les Muppets viennent d'obtenir leur diplôme à l'université et veulent aller fêter cela à Manhattan où ils espèrent aussi pouvoir monter leur nouveau spectacle musical. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu : personne ne veut les produire, et ils se retrouvent séparés sur des chemins différents, jusqu'au jour où Kermit, renversé par une voiture, devient amnésique…
L'élu
L'élu (1981)
, 1h48
Réalisé par Jeremy Kagan
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Thèmes Religion, Religion juive, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Ron Rifkin, Robert John Burke
Rôle Davey
Note71% 3.5957753.5957753.5957753.5957753.595775
En 1944, à New York, deux jeunes immigrés juifs font connaissance lors d'une partie de baseball où l'un blesse l'autre en lui envoyant la balle dans la figure. Reuven, peu religieux et dont le père milite pour la reconnaissance d'un État juif en Palestine, et Dany, issu d'un groupe religieux rigoriste, finissent par devenir amis malgré leurs différences. Reuven se fait accepter dans la famille de Dany mais doit cacher les positions politiques de son père. La fin de la guerre en Europe et les troubles en Palestine vont interférer dans leur vie qui va en être bouleversée.

Réalisateur

Master Harold... and the Boys, 1h27
Réalisé par Lonny Price
Genres Drame
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale
Acteurs Freddie Highmore, Ving Rhames
Note58% 2.9005552.9005552.9005552.9005552.900555
Set in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, during the early apartheid days. The story deals with the coming of age of seventeen-year-old Hally (played by Freddie Highmore). Hally, a white South African, has a bad relationship with his biological father and is torn between his father’s expectations and opinions of him and those of his surrogate fathers, black waiters named Sam (played by Ving Rhames) and Willie (played by Patrick Mofokeng). Young Hally is obliged to laugh at his father’s racist jokes and perform humiliating tasks like empty chamber pots. By contrast, Sam exposes Hally to many positive experiences. After being humiliated by his father, Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he’s achieved by helping him build and fly his own kite.