1. David Cryer has played more performances of the Bernstein Mass, as The Celebrant and more performances as Juan Peron in Evita than any other actor.
13 Facts About David Cryer
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David Cryer grew up in Toledo, Carey, Westerville, and Findlay, Ohio, where his father served congregations; he graduated from Findlay High School in 1954.
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David Cryer has three siblings: Jonathan Douglas, a retired professor of statistics and actuarial science at The University of Iowa, Daniel Walter Cryer, author of a biography of theologian Forrest Church as well as a former Newsday critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Mary Kathleen, a teacher.
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David Cryer's father married Mary Garrison in 1955, adding step-siblings William, Katherine, and Rebecca Garrison.
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David Cryer became deeply involved in music, playing trombone in the orchestra, and Ray North's dance band, and singing in The Lost Chords, the University Choir, the Collegians, Opera Workshop, the SDX Revue, and the Monon Revue.
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David Cryer was president of the Student Senate and pledge trainer at Sigma Chi.
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David Cryer enrolled at Boston University and earned an MFA in directing in 1961.
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In 1961, David Cryer served in the US Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey as a private and then entered the Army Reserves in 1962 for six years.
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David Cryer has played in 13 Broadway shows, including Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera, Juan Peron in Evita, Rutledge in 1776 musical, Ari in Ari, The Red Shadow in The Desert Song, and Jude Scribner in Come Summer.
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David Cryer has been a guest soloist with The Mormon Tabernacle Choir on two occasions.
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In 1983, David Cryer joined The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company in their first repertory season, performing in the plays Paradise Lost, Rain, Inheritors, and The Hasty Heart.
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Albert Poland and David Cryer produced the National Tour of The Fantasticks, and the New York production of the Gretchen David Cryer and Nancy Ford musical Now Is the Time for All Good Men.
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In 1966, David Cryer was one of the founders of the American Conservatory Theater in Pittsburgh, which shortly thereafter moved to San Francisco.