'Oklahoma ' at Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
"Danny Lindgren plays the not-so-smart cowboy Will Parker with such hilarity and sweetness."
Natasha Ashley
NY Theater Guide
Oklahoma! Still OK in classic revival
"As Will, Lindgren brings the presence and qualities of a leading man rather than a supporting player, and gets the maximum out of his lines"
James Mackillop
Syracuse New Times
James Mackillop
Syracuse New Times
Richly textured "Oklahoma !" In Auburn
"The game of persuit and avoidance plays out between a sincere, gangly cowpoke, Will Parker (perfectly rendered by Danny Lindgren), and his roving sweetheart Ado Annie."
Barbara Adams
Ithaca.com
Barbara Adams
Ithaca.com
Hope Rep's "Fantasticks" lives up to its name
The success of this show can rest on the actor who plays El Gallo, and Danny Lindgren’s charm is effortlessly seductive, pulling the audience into the world he’s creating. His “Try to Remember” is warm and rich, never saccharine. He balances whimsy with the right touch of sinister.
Marin Heinritz
Encore Michigan
Marin Heinritz
Encore Michigan
'The 39 Steps’ is lightweight but laugh-filled!
"Making the show work requires skill, team work and split-second timing. Lindgren and Sedelmeyer need to change costumes and accents at a dizzying pace...and they are up to the challenge.
Particularly funny is a scene in which Lindgren transfers himself from a train conductor to a policeman and back again in rapid succession. Later on, the entire cast hilariously acts out a chase scene on a train. In another funny set piece, Lindgren and Sedelmeyer skillfully play crop dusters trying to machine-gun the hero.
-George Basler
The Most Happy Fella Makes Theatergoers Happy:
"Natalie Hill was able to make the all-too-experienced Cleo seem as if life were finally beginning now that she’d met the right man; Danny Lindgren made Herman seem just like that. Lindgren was an understudy... But one would never know that Lindgren hadn’t been doing the show since Day One."
-Peter Filichia
Chicago Musical Dazzles:
Lindgren plays a fast-talking Flynn with his tenor voice soaring through the theater almost effortlessly in “All I Care About.” He embodies the lawyer right down to his sharp lapel.
-Aaron Edwards
-Aaron Edwards
Say 'Yes' to Mill's Millie:
"The score allows Lindgren to have his share of show-stoppers with good long notes... The soft purity of Lindgren’s voice is especially alluring as he sings “I Turned the Corner” to smitten Millie. It becomes quite a romantic duet between the two... It’s the perfect mix of sappy and sincere, just the thing you’d hope for in a Jazz Age musical."
-Nancy Oliveri
-Nancy Oliveri
Damn Yankees Actor Saves Audience From Flying Bat At Goodspeed:
There's a moment in the Goodspeed Opera House production of "Damn Yankees" that actor Danny Lindgren won't forget.
The same goes for the audience. Not to mention the trombone player.
It happened during the first preview performance of the baseball-themed musical, which opens Wednesday, April 30 at the East Haddam theater. Lindgren, as one of the nine hapless Boston Red Sox team members, is performing "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo," an elaborate production number that involves choreography with real Louisville Sluggers.
But let Lindgren explain what happened…
"It's quite a small stage and most of the time we're just trying not to hit each other," he says. "We were in the middle of the number when we fling our bats through our legs and then whip them around, turn upstage and hold for a pose — and the applause — when I felt the bat slip out of my hands. As I looked up I saw that its trajectory was heading towards the audience.
"Time slowed down at that point but I had one clear thought: Am I the guy whose bat hit a little old lady in the front row or am I the guy who kept it all from being a tragedy. I chose the latter and dove for the bat — and caught it.
"But I also looked down and saw that I was heading into the orchestra pit and so I tucked my legs under me so I would cause the least damage, as I landed between the violin and trombone player. It ended up that I bent the trombone and knocked over someone's music but otherwise walked away unscathed other than a small upper cut from a mike stand. The trombone player was shaky but fine, too."
The whole thing lasted about two seconds. Lindgren emerged from the pit. "I tried to make it as vaudevillian as possible and I got out and took a bow and we finished the number. The audience was definitely on our side by the end of the number.''
The Seattle native, who played Jake last fall in Goodspeed's "The Most Happy Fella," says: "Now I have a really good story to tell."
His mother sent flowers to the trombone player, David Kayser.
-Frank Rizzo
The same goes for the audience. Not to mention the trombone player.
It happened during the first preview performance of the baseball-themed musical, which opens Wednesday, April 30 at the East Haddam theater. Lindgren, as one of the nine hapless Boston Red Sox team members, is performing "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo," an elaborate production number that involves choreography with real Louisville Sluggers.
But let Lindgren explain what happened…
"It's quite a small stage and most of the time we're just trying not to hit each other," he says. "We were in the middle of the number when we fling our bats through our legs and then whip them around, turn upstage and hold for a pose — and the applause — when I felt the bat slip out of my hands. As I looked up I saw that its trajectory was heading towards the audience.
"Time slowed down at that point but I had one clear thought: Am I the guy whose bat hit a little old lady in the front row or am I the guy who kept it all from being a tragedy. I chose the latter and dove for the bat — and caught it.
"But I also looked down and saw that I was heading into the orchestra pit and so I tucked my legs under me so I would cause the least damage, as I landed between the violin and trombone player. It ended up that I bent the trombone and knocked over someone's music but otherwise walked away unscathed other than a small upper cut from a mike stand. The trombone player was shaky but fine, too."
The whole thing lasted about two seconds. Lindgren emerged from the pit. "I tried to make it as vaudevillian as possible and I got out and took a bow and we finished the number. The audience was definitely on our side by the end of the number.''
The Seattle native, who played Jake last fall in Goodspeed's "The Most Happy Fella," says: "Now I have a really good story to tell."
His mother sent flowers to the trombone player, David Kayser.
-Frank Rizzo
