Cuban
Nights
Book by Nic de Armendi, Jonathan Price and
Chana Wise (At Home in Mitford), and lyrics by Chana Wise,
this musical is in development. Inspired by Shakespeare's As
You Like It,it takes place in Cuba on the eve of the 1959
revolution.
Marley's Christmas
Book and lyrics by Jeff Goode,
based on his play Marley's Ghost. Concert reading
produced at Unknown Theater, Los Angeles. The official website,
www.marleyschristmas.com,
has mp3's of the entire score.
"Jonathan Price has added fun, meaningful, vigorous music
to Jeff Goode's play, which had already earned accolades of 'innovative,
unique...an unforgettable holiday journey.' Old writing buds becoming
pros and then re-teaming years later to make a good show even better is
my definition of how the world should work, ladies and gents."
—Jeffrey Stackhouse, shadowlandonline.net
Lao
Jiu: The Musical
Lyrics by Xiao Han, Yang Qian,
and Wu Xi. Book based on the play Lao Jiu—The Ninth Born
by Kuo Pao Kun, adapted by Wu Xi and Zhang Xian. Produced by The
Theatre Practice, it was chosen to inaugurate the New Drama Centre in
Singapore. Check out the review highlights
and pictures. "Lao Jiu: The Musical
was close to perfect as a production, with its innovative use of songs
and puppets, seamless choreography, authentic dialogue, honest plot and
characters, all coming together brilliantly with rare aesthetic
cohesiveness. Full of energy and creativity, the gravity and
lightness of the tale flowed and ebbed as naturally as breath.
Lao Jiu: The Musical firmly captured the imaginations of its
audience, affirming its place in Singapore's theatrical history."
—Deanna Tan, The Flying Inkpot
"Ji Tuo (Our Hopes)" music video directed by
Kuo Jian Hong
No
Shame Theatre Los Angeles
Begun at the University
of Iowa in the back of a pickup truck,
No Shame
has grown to become an international phenomenon. In addition to
being a founding member, Jonathan was the
music director of the Los Angeles chapter from its inception in 2002
through 2005.
Read the write-up in the LA Times.
Who
Killed Cock Robin?
Lyrics and book by Jeff Goode.
Produced at The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor, Maine. The song "Who
Killed Cock Robin?," a setting of the traditional poem The Death
and Burial of Cock Robin, was later used
as the Link Theme in the film Cyber Wars. It can be heard in the cue
Flight of the
Avatar.
Dead
Poets
Lyrics by Walt Whitman, Emily
Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe and book by Jeff Goode. Produced at
The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor, Maine. Read the
review
from the Bar Harbor Times. "The
music, written by Price, adds a pleasing rhythm and style to the words
these poets wrote more than a century ago, without detracting or
trivializing the subjects they were attempting to illuminate."
—Elizabeth Roundy, The Bar Harbor Times
Rumpelstiltskin
Lyrics by Jeff Goode & Jonathan
Price and
book by Jeff Goode. Produced at The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor,
Maine. Available from
Baker's Plays.
Escape
From Eldorado
Lyrics by Jonathan Price, Jeff Goode and
Edgar Allan Poe and book by Jeff Goode. Produced at The Unusual
Cabaret, Bar Harbor, Maine. Read the review
from the Bar Harbor Times.
"Suffice it to say that author Jeff Goode
and composer Jonathan Price...are an astonishingly talented team."
—Nan Lincoln, The Bar Harbor Times
Rocketship Van-Zan
Story, music, and lyrics by
Jonathan Price and Dan Layne and book by Jonathan Price. The songs
below are music and lyrics by Jonathan Price. Produced at the University of Iowa.
"The production was unique to say the least. Kudos
to Price and Layne for being brave enough to try something so
different." —Michelle-Theryse Forcier, The Daily Iowan
Walt
A play written by Bill Whitman
(fifth cousin six times removed of Walt Whitman), featuring settings of
Walt Whitman's poetry. Produced at The University of Iowa and at
Central Missouri State College. Jonathan received an ACTF/Kennedy
Center Award for the musical composition of Walt. Some of the settings were later used in
Dead Poets. "Jonathan Price composed melodies
and harmonies which were powerful and subtly interspersed with text."
—Karma Lisa Edwards, The Daily Iowan