Linda Lovely Goes To Broadway
Linda Lovely Goes To Broadway
Written and performed by Ann Morrison
Directed by Blake Walton
Friday, March 20 & Saturday, 21 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, March 22 @ 2pm
$20 at the door or online at sevendaystickets.com
Winner: The John Ringling Towers Award— Florida
Winner: Best Actress Award—2012 United Solo Festival in New York
Ann Morrison finds immense beauty in her friend Linda, a highly imaginative actress and writer with Down syndrome, who teaches deep lessons from the heart. During a road trip to New York, to fulfill her dream of singing center stage on Broadway, Linda is actually preparing for a larger mission, one that would profoundly affect everyone around her and beyond.
Morrison encourages us to seek out the things that make us happy and follow our innate creativity. That’s what she’s doing in her life and work and the result enriches us all. –Jay Handelman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
That’s My Story & I’m
Sticking To It
Mon, March 23 & Wed March 25
6:30-9:30pm each night
$40 for the 2-day workshop
Register here: https://sevendaystickets.com/events/thats-my-story-im-sticking-to-it-3-23-2020 OR 802-244-4168 OR grangehallcc@gmail.com
Jump starting your personal experience into a solo presentation taught by SaraSolo Festival founders, Ann Morrison & Blake Walton
Everyone has a personal story to tell. Is it your secret? Is it your truth? Is it just a funny view of life? Is it profound? Just as every individual is unique, the memories and experiences we have are unique as well. Telling them can be empowering and even life changing.
Ann and Blake guide you through the exploration of your personal thoughts and memories with inspiring coaching and exercises to help you begin to dramatize your own life experiences and turning them into compelling stories to be read or performed.
Bios:
ANN MORRISON made her Broadway debut as the lead character Mary Flynn in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Harold Prince, for which she won the 1982 Theatre World Award. In 2007, at Prince’s request, she returned to Broadway in Lovemusikand starred in the West End (London) production of Peg (based on the song, “Peg O’ My Heart”). Off-Broadwayshe received a Drama Desk Award Nominationfor her role of Lizzie in the musical Goblin Market, and was an original cast member ofthe popular revue, Forbidden Broadway. In Los Angeles, she starred inSondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle, winning a Drama-Logue Award. Regional Theatre credits include: Swingtime, Canteen, 1940 Radio Hour, All I Ned To Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Murders, Peter Pan, Guys and Dolls,Cabaret, Oliver!,Good News, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, and Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Chess, Little Shop of Horrors, Babes in Arms, The Fantasticks, Godspell, Anything Goes, It’s A Wonderful Life, Crazy For You, Noel And Gertie, I Do, I Do!,Shadowlands, Ruthless!, Blithe Spirit, Of Thee I Sing, Over The Rainbow, Macabaret,Driving Miss Daisy, On The Verge, The New Century, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labours Lost(later taped for PBS).
Recordings include: Merrily We Roll Along, Peg, Goblin Market, I Remember Mama, Good News, Lovemusik, The Busby Berkeley Album, Songs of New York, The Stephen Sondheim Collection, Sing Before Breakfast, You Can’t Put Ketchup OnThe Moon, Lady Be Good (Gramophone Award/Best Musical) and most recently, The Road To Ruin.
She is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope Theatre Company, a musical theatre workshop for persons with developmental disabilities. She created Random Play as a means to present works by and about those actors with whom she worked over the course of a decade.
Ann has also created and performed her solo plays, The Awen Trilogy (Celtic mythology and storytelling), Annie’s Celtic Kitchen, and the “Living Room Theater” oral pieces Aimee and the Xymox, Trevor’s Fire, and A Grail Knight Named Christopher. She is developing a two-character play with co-writer Blake Walton, based on comic genius of Beatrice Lillie.
As a public speaker and lecturer, Ann has been invited to universities and colleges, to woman’s groups, to churches and synagogues, to HealingThrough Story conferences, and to hospitals and health care facilities over the past fifteen years. She has available seven lecture/workshops and master classes, ranging from theatre arts’ impact on disabilities to healing through storytelling, to grief and bereavement, to dementia and Alzheimer’s work, to solo performance creation.
BLAKE WALTON, (Writer/Performer/Director) presented his first solo play, Leading Men at the 2013 United Solo Festival, for which he was honored with the 2013 United Solo Award for “Best Premiere” after being welcomed to the festival in 2012 performing in Ann Morrison’s solo play, Trevor’s Fire(2012 “Best Premier Award”) and directing Morrison in her play Linda Lovely Goes To Broadway. He was directed Ms. Morrison’s 2013 United Solo performance, Word Painting: Soliloquies Around An Easel. Walton studies acting with Bill Esper and Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and originated roles in Ham, Songs and Ceremonies, Rain Kisses, and as Mark in the historically groundbreaking production of Doric Wilson’s The West Street Gang. Since returning to New York 12 years ago, he played Felix in My Three Angels(Hampton Theater Company) and Elfin/Father Duncan in_Family Comes First(Emerging Artist’s EAT Fest) and performed in a dozen films (89 Likes, Rex, Tommy’s Idea of Bliss, A Brother’s Regret)_In Regional Theater: Into The Woods, Sweeny Todd, Stop The World I Want To Get Off, Anything Goes, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum, I Do, I Do!(Sarasota Magazine Award), City of Angels, Jeffrey, Snakebit, Kiss of The Spider Woman, Dirty Blonde, The Sum Of Us, Don’t Dress For Dinner, and as Bette Davis in Me & Jezebel(SAMMY Award “Best Actor”. Directing:_Singin’ In The Rain, Big River, Babes In Arms, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, 42nd Street, Marvin’s Room, Jest A Second, In The Moment, including solo plays Malibu Mornings, HEDY: The Life and Adventures of Hedy Lamarr,Becoming Mia Rose, Touch Me Real,_Linda Lovely Goes to Broadway, and Word Painting: Soliloquies Around an Easel). He directed and wrote the webseries, The misAdventures of Wendell Burke and has taught playwriting, many levels of acting, and coaches privately. He is Co-Founder and Managing Director of SaraSolo Productions presents the annual SaraSolo Festival in Sarasota, FL, celebrating solo performance and outreach programs through “SoloSynergy.”