Into The Woods
freeFall Theatre
Sondheim On Sondheim
freeFall Theatre
Damn Yankees
Ordway Performing Arts
Word Painting:Soliloquies Around An Easel
Solo playwritten and performed
Into The Woods
freeFall Theatre
Sondheim On Sondheim
freeFall Theatre
Damn Yankees
Ordway Performing Arts
Word Painting:Soliloquies Around An Easel
Solo playwritten and performed
Merrily We Roll Along
Original Broadway cast 1981
LoveMusik
Broadway 2007
Murderers
Asolo Rep Theater
Linda Lovely Goes to Broadway
Solo play written and performed
Discourse Of A Maid
First solo play by Ann
The Witch
INTO THE WOODS
2014, freeFall Theater, Saint Pete
"I first heard Ann Morrison as Mary Flynn in the Merrily We Roll Along original Broadway cast album over 30 years ago. Her witch in INTO THE WOODS is a stunning creation (and yes, I could hear moments of Mary seep through; it was like hearing the voice of an old friend from long ago). The witch is all things, part creepy creature, part broken-hearted mother. Morrison's Act 2 rendition of "Last Midnight" is the best I have ever heard. She sings the hell out of it. And in a single day, it has become one of my favorite Sondheim numbers, all thanks to Morrison's glorious interpretation." - Peter Nason, BWW
Driving Miss Daisy
American Stage, Saint Pete 2010
"Ann Morrison plays Daisy, and she's wonderful in the role. Morrison's Daisy is bad-tempered, suspicious, terrified, censorious, but also kind, caring, righteous and near-indomitable."
-Mark E. Leib, Creative Loafing
Norman Desmond
Sunset Boulevard
2011, Music Theatre of Wichita
"Broadway veteran Ann Morrison is brilliant as Norma Desmond, the silent film star who couldn’t transition to talkies and retreated to her mansion to watch her movies and relive past glories.
Morrison has a powerful, precise soprano that can lilt and lull you, but then pin you to your seat in a fit of belting rage. She is a grand presence you can’t get enough of. Morrison plays Norma as imperious but not intentionally mean. She is pathetic but sympathetic. She is sweetly ridiculous in her dramatic gestures, but you never question the character’s dignity. Morrison slips skillfully between dangerous passion and deadly madness, and holds us in her grasp wondering what she’ll do next."
- Bob Curtright, The Wichita Eagle
Meg
Damn Yankees
2015, St. Paul MN
"Ann Morrison as Meg is a mid-1950s housewife with both verve and tenderness. When the spot-light closes in on her at the end of the beautiful "Near to You," sung with yearning by Meg and her two Joes, the look on her face speaks of complete faith and love." - Arthur Dorman, Talkin' Broadway
BIO
Ann Morrison is an award-winning actress, writer, teacher and director for over 40 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. 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 Reynold's co-hosted and predicted Ann would be appearing on Broadway in a year (it would be 2 years). 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. 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. 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. After a series of auditions she met with Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim on her 25th birthday and was cast. Her debut in Merrily We Roll Along garnered her the 1982 Theatre World Award, and she did her first OBC LP recording for RCA. 25 years later (2007) Harold Prince brought her back to Broadway for LoveMusik. She sang in a Sondheim celebration Children and Art at the New Amsterdam Theater and at the Merrily Reunion Concert at Laguardia High School. On London's West End she originated the title role in the musical PEG (based on “Peg O’ My Heart”). Off Broadway she joined the original cast of Forbidden Broadway playing Mary Martin, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, and Patti Lupone (which she recreated on the TV show MERV ) and originated the role of Lizzie in the musical Goblin Market for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical and a Best Plays Citation for Best Actress. Nationally, she has starred in Sondheim on Sondheim, Moving On, Into the Woods, Peter Pan, Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, Oliver! Sunset Boulevard, On A Clear Day, Anything Goes, Can Can, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Good News, Embarrassments, Anyone Can Whistle, On The Verge, Noel & Gertie, Shadowlands, Ruthless!, I Do, I Do! Little Shop Of Horrors, Chess, Blithe Spirit, Of Thee I Sing, Driving Miss Daisy, plus many many more. The quintessential solo artist, Ann has performed as a cabaret artist in major venues across the country, most recently at Feinstein's/54 Below in NYC. She won a 2012 Best Actress Award for her solo play Linda Lovely Goes to Broadway in the United Solo Festival in NYC, and appeared there again with her solo play Word Painting: Soliloquies Around an Easel. Directing credits include both her solo play Trevor's Fire starring Blake Walton and his solo play Leading Men at the United Solo Festival; large musicals The Secret Garden, Merrily We Roll Along, On A Clear Day, Smoke On the Mountain as well as many plays and revues. She is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope, a musical theatre workshop for persons with developmental disabilities. She can be heard on original cast recordings and studio recordings such as Merrily We Roll Along, Peg, Goblin Market, Good News, I Remember Mama, Lady Be Good (1993 Gramophone Award), The Busby Berkeley Album, Sing Before Breakfast, and The Road to Ruin. She is the recipient of several HANDY, SAMMY, and SARASOTA MAGAZINE Awards as well as the JOHN RINGLING TOWERS AWARD. Ann plays herself in the 2017 documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened. wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Morrison . Ann is the very proud mother of singer/composer/actor/music producer Huck Walton.
GALLERY
Hirshfeld
Merrily We Roll Along
Encores!
Merrily We Roll Along
APLA Benefit
With Pam Meyers
Feinstein's 54 Below
With John Shirley
AWARDS
1982
THEATRE WORLD AWARD
for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
1986
DRAMA DESK AWARD
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Nomination
for GOBLIN MARKET
1989 DRAMA-LOGUE Award
BEST ENSEMBLE
for BLAME IT ON THE MOVIES II
Best Ensemble
JOHN RINGLING TOWERS AWARD
for LINDA LOVELY GOES TO BROADWAY
2012 United Solo
BEST ACTRESS Award
for LINDA LOVELY GOES TO BROADWAY
Contact Ann
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