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Jonathan Price

JONATHAN PRICE  

 Nationality:    USA
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Jonathan Price is the composer-in-residence at SkyPilot Theatre and a SkyPilot Resident Playwright. He is best known for his musical LAO JIU, which inaugurated the 600-seat New Drama Centre in Singapore, as well as the film scores to New Line's sci-fi film CYBER WARS and Showtime's Drama RUSTIN. His hexaptych opera AeSOPERA is the winner of New Opera Works' OIAM Competition and recipient of The American Composers Forum Subito Grant. His musical RUMPELSTILTSKIN, featuring book & lyrics by Jeff Goode, is published by Baker's Plays. You can hear his music for theatre, opera, film, tv and the concert hall at www.jonathanprice.com

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below is a list of Jonathan Price's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Dead Poets         Earthbound         Escape from Eldorado         Fisher & the Wishes, The         Frogs & the Crane, The         Gift of the Magi, The         Island, The         Lao Jui: The Musical         Lion & the Wood Nymph, The         Queen and the Dragon, The         Reel People         Rumpelstiltskin         Wandering Willows         Who Killed Cock Robin?

Dead Poets

Synopsis:
Walt Whitman finds Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson on an ethereal road.

Notes:
Book by Jeff Goode, music by Jonathan Price; lyrics from the poetry of Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, And Emily Dickinson

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor, ME    1990

Organisations:
The Unusual Cabaret

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Earthbound

Synopsis:
Earthbound is a musical Drama set on the space station Miami, where generations of inhabitants have looked longingly at the blue planet beneath them, awaiting their chance to go home. Now only seven remain, and not all of them want to keep waiting.

Notes:
Book by Adam Hahn; music by Jonathan Price; lyrics by Chana Wise

1st Produced:
T.U. Studios, North Hollywood, CA    2012

Organisations:
SkyPilot Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Escape from Eldorado

Synopsis:
Claudette and her bungling partner-in-espionage Claude are assigned to dispose of an obsolete germ warfare virus. But their infectious charge escapes from its test tube and goes on a killing spree - taking the lives of countless men, women, children, and people-who-aren't-even-in-the-play. And if finding a cure for an incurable disease seems tough, Claudette's biggest challenge will be defeating the sadistic Narrator who unleashed the killer germ on humanity.

Notes:
Book by Jeff Goode; music by Jonathan Price; lyrics by Jonathan Price & Jeff Goode

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor, ME    1990

Organisations:
The Unusual Cabaret

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Fisher & the Wishes, The

Synopsis:
When Dame Fortune grants a fisherman three wishes, he must choose wishes that can benefit both his daughters, which turns out to be more difficult than he imagined.

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; libretto by Jeff Goode, inspired by the Aesop fable "The Father & his Two Daughters"

1st Produced:
Historic Blinn House, Pasadena, CA    2011

Organisations:
Social Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
mini-opera

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Frogs & the Crane, The

Synopsis:
What happens when an ancient Greek city gives corporations the same rights as citizens? Their politicians are bought off and a disgusted Athena turns them all into frogs. Hilarity ensues.

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; libretto by the composer, inspired by the Aesop fable "The Frogs Asking for A King"

1st Produced:
Historic Blinn House, Pasadena, CA    2011

Organisations:
Social Arts

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
mini-opera

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Gift of the Magi, The

Synopsis:
Della and Jim each sacrifice something special so that they may buy each other Christmas gifts.

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; libretto by Jan Michael Alejandro & the composer, based on the eponymous short story by O. Henry

1st Produced:
The Secret Rose, North Hollywood, CA    2009

Organisations:
The Secret Rose

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
mini-opera

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Island, The

Synopsis:
The sorceress Prospera and her daughter Miranda have been marooned on an island for fifteen years. A passing plane offers them a chance to leave and get revenge

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; lyrics by Chana Wise; book by Jonathan Price. Based on "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare

1st Produced:
T U Studios, North Hollywood    13 Jul 2013

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Lao Jui: The Musical

Synopsis:
A young man dishonors his family by yearning to become a master of the dying art of puppetry instead of fulfilling his promise as a student.

Notes:
Book by Wu Xi And Zhang Xian (adapted from the play Lao Jiu by Kuo Pao Kun); music by Jonathan Price; lyrics by Xiao Han, Wu Xi, And Yang Qian

1st Produced:
The Drama Centre, Singapore    2005

Organisations:
The Theatre Practice

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Lion & the Wood Nymph, The

Synopsis:
When a lion falls in love with the wood nymph Corycia, her father Kephisos must make a difficult choice.

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; libretto by the composer, inspired by the Aesop fable "The Lion in Love"

1st Produced:
Historic City Hall, American Fork, UT    2007

Organisations:
New Opera Works

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
mini-opera

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Queen and the Dragon, The

Synopsis:
A mini-opera about a queen, Cassandra, who commands her alchemist to create a love potion to make one of her guards, Adon, fall in love with her. Adon, however, is in love with the Queen's balladeer, Jason. As Adon is sent to slay the dragon necessary to make the potion, Cassandra learns the truth about his love.

Notes:
Music by Jonathan Price; libretto by Jan Michael Alejandro & the composer, inspired by the Aesop fable "The Dog & his Shadow"

1st Produced:
Secret Rose Theatre, North Hollywood    2009

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Ten minute mini-opera

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Reel People

Synopsis:
A woman finds herself in an airport with a delayed flight and two entertainment industry professionals on each side of her.

Notes:
Book & music by Jonathan Price; lyrics by Chana Wise

1st Produced:
T.U. Studios, North Hollywood, CA    2012

Organisations:
SkyPilot Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
mini-musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin
Greedy humans exploit the kindness of a magical gnome in this fractured fairy tale based on the Brother's Grimm. An ambitious peasant will say anything to convince the cash-strapped king to marry her lowly daughter, even if it means pretending the girl knows how to spin ordinary straw into priceless gold. Forced to spin or die, the hapless girl begs a lovelorn gnome to save her with his magic. And when her newfound talent leads to a royal marriage proposal, the aspiring princess will promise the gnome anything to keep up the deception. Even her firstborn child! Too late, she realizes the only way to break her promise is to guess the identity of the mysterious gnome before her time runs out and her subterfuge catches up with her.

Notes:
Book & Lyrics by Jeff Goode; Music And lyrics by Jonathan Price

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor ME    1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Bakers Plays, CA (2008) >>>    978-0-87440-314-5

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Wandering Willows

Synopsis:
A video-store clerk sees his movie-musical fantasies come true

Notes:
Book & music by Jonathan Price; lyrics by Chana Wise

1st Produced:
The Victory Theatre, Burbank, CA    2011

Organisations:
SkyPilot Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
mini-musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Who Killed Cock Robin?

Synopsis:
At the funeral of Cock Robin, four birds (Sparrow, Linnetbird, Wren and Dove) role-play to discover who killed Cock Robin.

Notes:
Book & lyrics by Jeff Goode; music by Jonathan Price

1st Produced:
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor, ME    1991

Organisations:
The Unusual Cabaret

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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