Charley Kringas

Charles "Charley" Kringas 250px

Personal information Birthplace: Chicago, IL Career: Lyricist, playwright. Family: Evelyn (wife) 4 unnamed children

Charles Kringas is a secondary protagonist in Merrily We Roll Along (Sondheim/Furth) He is primarily called Charley, and is named after Hal Prince's son.

Charley is a lyricist and playwright. He is married to Evelyn and is close friends with Mary Flynn and very close friends with Franklin Shepard, whom he went to high school with. He was born sometime between 1935 and 1938^timeline in Chicago.

Charley wrote lyrics for Frankly Frank, Musical Husbands, and Sweet Sorrow¹⁹⁸⁵. Notably, he wrote the lyrics for the Musical Husbands song, Good Thing Going. He and Frank collaborated to write the never finished musical, Take A Left¹⁹⁸⁵, based on Charley's play called Pretty Politics. He wins a Pulitzer for one of his plays in the late 70s.

He was originated on Broadway by Lonny Price.

Notes

^timeline refers to mathematical errors within the canonical timeline.

1. Charley's age is inconsistent.

¹⁹⁸⁵ refers to content within scripts and productions based off the 1985 revised production directed by James Lapine that is not in content prior.

¹⁹⁸¹ refers to content with scripts and productions based off the 1981 original Broadway production, including the 1982 licensed libretto.