Ann Morrison (born April 9, 1956) is an American actress, best known for her Broadway debut as Mary Flynn in the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical, Merrily We Roll Along directed by Harold Prince for which she won the 1982 Theatre World Award.
[2] Her family co-created a summer theater company called The Banner Players performing on the shores of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin when Morrison was a teenager.
Morrison left Boston Conservatory, attended the HB Studios in New York, spent time in San Francisco before arriving back in Chicago.
This gave Morrison the chance to watch and get to know the TV and film stars (Tyne Daly, Sally Field, and Kate Jackson) some of whom were making a stage debut.
At the end of the year-long program each apprentice earned their Actors' Equity Association card by signing a contract for The Sound Of Music (Morrison played Sister Margaretta), the last show of the season.
She impersonated Mary Martin, Julie Andrews, Carol Channing and appeared on TV on The Merv Griffin Show as Patti LuPone in Evita.
She was welcomed by her British cast of West End stars Sian Phillips, Edward Duke, and Patricia Michael, in a small production (9 characters, no chorus) giving them a modest run through the summer.
[5] In her new home of Los Angeles she played Faye Apple in the West Coast Premiere of Anyone Can Whistle and won a Dramalogue Award for Blame It On The Movies II.
benefits for APLA, the Merrily We Roll Along Reunion Concert in 2002 and the Stephen Sondheim birthday celebration, Children And Art, at the New Amsterdam Theater.
In 2006 Harold Prince secured her for the workshop and several backers auditions for the new musical LoveMusik, to play Lotte Lenya opposite Michael Cerveris as Kurt Weill.