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Musical Theatre

Marley's Christmas
(2006) 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
Christmas,
Christmas (3:24)
Pinch
Me (3:57)
Curtains
(2:46)
Gloria (5:01)
Ghosts
In Shackles (2:20)
A
Kind of Man (8:40)
All
For You (2:54)

Solitude
& I (3:24)
The
Pudding & the Toast (6:59)
Save
Ebenezer (7:32)
Merry
Christmas, Happy Christmas (3:05)

God
Bless Us, Everyone (2:37)
MySpace Official Site of Marley's Christmas

Lao
Jiu: The Musical
(2005) 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 and the music video of "Ji Tuo"
(13.7 MB). The official website is
www.laojiuthemusical.com. "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
Sha
Hu Ji (Slaying the Tiger) (3:42)
(lyrics by Xiaohan)

Wo
Shi Lao Jiu (I Am Lao Jiu) (2:15) (lyrics by Xiaohan)
Chi,
Chi, Chi (Eat, Eat, Eat) (3:02) (lyrics by Yang Qian & Wu Xi)
Ji
Tuo (Our Hopes) (4:03)
(lyrics by Xiaohan) see
video below

Fu
Kao 1 (To The Exams 1) (2:41)
(lyrics by Wu Xi)
Transformation
(3:50)
Zui
Hou Tong Die (Ultimatum) (4:07) (lyrics by Yang Qian & Wu Xi)
Shi
Dai De Zhong Bai (Pendulum of Time) (4:49) (lyrics by Xiaohan)
Bie
Fang Qi (Don't Give Up) (2:15) (lyrics by Yang Qian & Wu Xi)
Wan
Jie Pian: Xiao Niao Si Le (Epilogue: A Little Bird Dies)
(3:40) (lyrics by Xiaohan)
MySpace
Official Site of Lao Jiu
"Ji Tuo (Our Hopes)" music video directed by
Kuo Jian Hong

No
Shame Theatre Los Angeles
(2002-2005) Begun at the University
of Iowa in the back of a pickup truck, No Shame
has grown to become an international phenomenon. 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.
The Haiku
Song (1:44) (lyrics by Jeff Goode)
No
Shame Goes to Hollywood (1:04)

Who
Killed Cock Robin?
(1991) 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.
Unrequited
Love Song (3:07)
Birds and
the Bees (1:58)
Chess
Song/Love Song (3:11)
Have You
Seen My Wife? (2:28)
2nd Act
Song (2:59)
Who Killed
Cock Robin? (1:50)


Dead
Poets
(1990) 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
Paradise
Is That Old Mansion (1:23)
Israfel
(3:57)
How Far Is
It To Heaven/I Went to Heaven (2:18)
Full of
Life Now (1:39)
Here Where
the Daisies Fit My Head/I Shall Keep Singing (2:27)
The Bells (3:27)
Lines On
Ale (2:04)
Because I
Could Not Stop For Death/When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard (4:04)
I Sing the
Body Electric (2:21)

Rumpelstiltskin
(1990) Lyrics by Jonathan Price and Jeff Goode and
book by Jeff Goode. Produced at The Unusual Cabaret, Bar Harbor,
Maine.
Once Upon
A Time (2:37)
Buying
Time (2:46)
Fairy Tale
Princess (3:10)
A Gnome
Like Me (1:31)
I
Think I Oughta Luv Ya (2:22)
Morocco (3:59)
The Baby
Song (2:12)
That Is
Not My Name (3:44)
What Does
This Fairy Tale Mean? (2:54)

Escape
From Eldorado
(1990) 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
Havin' Fun
(3:08)
Eldorado
(1:57)
Best of
Friends (3:36)
Less
Better Than This (3:33)
The Sun
Seems To Be Rising (2:23)
Annabel
Lee (4:47)
Surfin'
Pompeii (2:16)
What Goes
Around/Invisible Rainbows (3:54)
University of Iowa
Rocketship Van-Zan
(1992) 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
Nothing
Inside (2:43)
If I Was
Nothing (3:43)
No
One Steals From the Permanent (6:03)

Walt
(1986) 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
Un Nuovo
Mondo (4:29)
When
Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd (1:28)

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