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Lonnie Burr

LONNIE BURR

  (1943 - )
Nationality:    USA
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LONNIe BURR became a professional actor/dancer/singer in Theatre, films, TV and radio in 1948 at age 5 and at 11 starred as Mouseketeer Lonnie on the original "Mickey Mouse Club" (1955-59), a series that played 16 countries and was translated into 5 languages and has played in America in every decade since, last 1995-2002. Over 265 first run TV appearances, 25 films, 49 equity plays including Broadway, 100 radio shows - commercials, VO work, industrials, live performances. after an Ma in Theatre at 20 and an unfinished PhD in English Literature, he added writing, directing and choreography to his professional pursuits: book author, playwright, poet, TV, 23 radio scripts, film, magazines, e-zines, newspapers, comedy material. Please see more at: www.mouseketeerlonnieburr.com

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

         Fantasies         Icons Are Not In Vogue         Occam's Razor         Over the Hill         Phantom Pain         Who's Afraid Of David Mamet

Fantasies

Synopsis:
Wilma's husband and daughter have lost interest in her, just as she has lost all belief in herself. She escapes depression by bringing forth grandiose, musical fantasies to make her life livable. She learns from her journey and travails that weeding her own musical garden will bring back what she really longs for and loves and all that is of value

Notes:
Wrote book/lyrics with M. Silversher composer

1st Produced:
Ibm Workshop, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A     1985

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  12 chorus - possible with 6

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Icons Are Not In Vogue

Synopsis:
a sophisticated cat burglar is surprised by a striking female victim and he would rather romance than pilfer despite the milieu being one he fits into but cannot abide due to its pretentious pomposity and panglossian pedantry rather than down to terra firma banditry and aplomb.

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1st Produced:
University Of California At Los Angeles     1963

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Genre:
Comedy of manners, 2 act

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Occam's Razor

Synopsis:
a young man and woman of formidable intellect have lived together to the point of tedium and ennui when a mysterious intruder, who is first one person, then another - perhaps - inadvertantly foments a menge a trois that eventually emboldens the female to seek neither of them but to seek herself elsewhere

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starring Dan Hedaya, 1973. Second production At Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, Ca starring Jerry Dodge. Winner of ARTACT Award, Kentucky And honorable mention Forest Roberts Drama Award; Adapted by me for radio hitting 200 stations U.S., nomina

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Genre:
Drama, 2 act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Over the Hill

Synopsis:
Wally's 40th birthday depresses him thoroughly and is followed apace by a flood of disasters and a lack of an ark that proprels him into middle-age-aphobic convolutions that would make a veteran tight rope walker cross eyed. Fortunately, there appears to be some illuminaton at the end of the hurly-burly funnel of aging.

Notes:
I directed And then took over the lead when lead Actor returned to TV soap.

1st Produced:
Met Theatre, Los Angeles     1980

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Genre:
Gay full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Phantom Pain

Synopsis:
man in his thirties searches for himself and the Father he had only known as an uncaring ass through two family corrupted Thanksgivings. although Bake, the dad, appears in his irascible persona before and after the grave, the interaction of the two ultimately results in their being more conclusively at opposite polarities and forever separated and lost to each other - not by death, but by the way in which they conduct their lives

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academy of Dramatic Arts, Washington, D.C. 2000.

1st Produced:
Fountain Theatare, L.A     1992

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Genre:
Drama, 2 act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Who's Afraid Of David Mamet

Synopsis:
Five male playwrights, some American, have hostile dialogues, using their recognizable, unique styles, to solve the overwhelming problem of the s--- that the Mamet upstart has thrust upon the boards all smelly and steaming

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1st Published:
entertainment Weekly magazine, 1982   -

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Genre:
Play One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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