Daily News | Lloyd Price’s life story will come alive in new musical ‘Personality’ at People’s Light in Malvern
The list of musical pioneers who brought a culture-quaking rock and roll explosion in the 1950s is full of immediately recognizable names.
The play takes its name from the 1959 hit that is Price’s best-known, most-hummable song, which gave him his “Mr. Personality” nickname. It’s directed by Sheldon Epps and employs two actors to portray Price, who died in May 2021 from complications from diabetes at age 88. “Then he asked me what I knew about his life, and I said ‘Nothing.’ But ‘Stagger Lee’ is one of my favorite songs.”
That tale involves seeing his first jukebox when he was 7 years old, working at a segregated bar in Kenner, sweeping the floor on both sides of the racial divide. The title of “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” was inspired by a Black DJ named Okey Dokey Smith, whose catchphrase was “Lawdy Miss Clawdy, eat your mother’s homemade pies and drink your Maxwell House coffee!”
“I interviewed him for the film for three and half hours,” Madoff said. “I said to him, ‘I think you have an incredible story that nobody knows and needs to be told.’ ”a show which Price was able to see in workshop versions before his health took a turn for the worse.
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