25 years later (2007) Harold Prince brought her back to Broadway for LoveMusik. Her debut in Merrily We Roll Along garnered her the 1982 Theatre World Award, and she did her first OBC LP recording for RCA. After a series of auditions, she met with Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim on her 25th birthday and was cast. Director/choreographer Ron Field saw her in the production and suggested casting director Joanna Merlin see her for Mary Flynn, the only role still not filled in Merrily We Roll Along headed for Broadway. Ann did regional theater productions of Babes In Arms and Grease before being cast as Mabel Normand in a new musical Keystone at Geva Theatre in Rochester. Back in New York as a professional, she was cast in a re-working of Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman's Swing which was renamed Dream Time and reduced to 3 characters playing at the Harold Clurman Off-Broadway. She then apprenticed at the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theater Training in Florida where she was cast as the Girl in The Fantasticks, earned her Equity card with The Sound of Music, and appeared on Dinah Shore's Dinah! when Burt Reynolds co-hosted and predicted Ann would be appearing on Broadway in a year (it would be 2 years). She began acting in summer stock as a teenager and studied at HB Studios in New York before taking a gig at 19 with Korean big band leader Benny Kim, touring the midwest with his family as singer, Emcee and trombone player in The Benny Kim Show. What she and Musical Director John Shirley (with an assist from Creative Consultant Blake Walton) have done is take all of those memories, deconstruct them, reconstruct them, and then layer in the original Merrily score, also de-and-re-constructed, to tell the tale of the time before Merrily, the casting of Merrily, and the rehearsal of Merrily - a process that sounds harrowing enough to drive any actor out of show business." -Stephen Mosher Broadway WorldĪnn Morrison is an award-winning actress, writer, teacher, and director for over 45 years. The details that the singing actress produces in the script of her show are stunningly outlined and breathtakingly arranged for immaculate storytelling effect. "Merrily From Center Stage is a musical memoir about a very specific time in Ann Morrison's life - a time that didn't last very long but that had a lasting effect that she is still feeling today - and even though this all happened some four decades ago, Morrison's memory seems to be in crystal clear snap-trap working order. MERRILY FROM CENTER STAGE was first produced at Feinstein's/54 Below Gay Men's Chorus of Tampa Bay | St.A solo musical based on memories of Ann's award-winning Broadway debut as Mary Flynn in the 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Regional: Suor Angelica / Gianni SchicchiĪrtist Series of Concerts of Sarasota | Sarasota FL Regional: Ethel Waters: His Eye Is on the SparrowĬircus Arts Conservatory and John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art | Sarasota FL Regional: The Swingeroos: Hollywood Serenade Regional: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Regional: John Ringing's Circus Nutcracker Regional: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall | Sarasota FL National Tour Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall | Sarasota FL Regional: Your Arms Too Short to Box with God Regional: Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamerĭutchman Hospitality Group / Blue Gate Musicals | Sarasota FL The Players Centre for Performing Arts | Sarasota FL Regional: Ana Isabelle and Friends in Concert Regional: Sophie Tucker: The Last of the Red Hot Mamas ![]() Regional: Jukebox Saturday Night with the Swingeroos Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe | Sarasota FLĪrtist Series Concerts of Sarasota | Sarasota FL Regional: The Great American Trailer Park MusicalįreeFall Theatre Company | St. Regional: The Silken Ladder (La scala di seta) Regional: At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen Wisconsin, SEĪsolo Conservatory for Actor Training | Sarasota FL Paul New Jersey Other Regions Palm Springs / Coachella Valley Philadelphia Phoenix Raleigh/Durham San Diego San Francisco/North Bay San Jose/Silicon Valley Seattle St. ALL New York Albuquerque/Santa Fe Boston Chicago Cincinnati Connecticut and the Berkshires Florida - Southern Florida - West Coast Greater New York State Las Vegas Los Angeles Minneapolis/St.
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