David Cryer
David Cryer was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States on March 8th, 1936 and is the Stage Actor. At the age of 88, David Cryer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Donald David Cryer (born March 8, 1936) is a veteran American stage, television, film actor, and singer, and one of the creators of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, which opened in Pittsburgh and New York's Mirror Repertory Theatre.
In recent years, he has best known for his role as Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera, which he has performed for nearly 19 years both on the road and on Broadway.
In addition to the Bernstein Mass, he has appeared more times in Evita as The Celebrant (including at the Metropolitan Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and more as Juan Peron than any other actor.
Jon Cryer and his first wife, Gretchen Cryer, are the parents of actor Jon Cryer and his sister Robin Cryer Hyland.
Rachel, Daniel, Carolyn, and Bill is the father of four children with his second wife, the dancer and actress Britt Swanson.
He has eight grandchildren.
Early life
Donald David Cryer Jr., the son of Pauline (née Spitler) (1910-1952), and Donald Walter Cryer (1989-1988), a well-known Methodist minister in the West Ohio Conference, was born in Evanston, Illinois. At the time of his birth, his father was attending the Garrett Biblical Institute at Northwestern University. He grew up in Toledo, Carey, Westerville, and Findlay, Ohio, where his father served at congregations. 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 winner Mary Kathleen (Kathy), a tutor. Pauline, his mother, died in 1952. In 1955, his father married Mary Garrison, and William, Katherine, and Rebecca Garrison followed him.
He graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, with a B.A. The Walker Cup, which has been coveted by the senior who has contributed the most to DePauw, the Gold Key to juniors for leadership and scholarship, and the Lewis Sermon Award for an original sermon have all been coveted in history. He became deeply involved in music, played trombone in the orchestra, Ray North's dance band, and performing in The Lost Chords (a quartet based on The Four Freshmen), the University Choir, the Collegians, the SDX Revue, and the Monon Revue. He was president of the Student Senate and pledge trainer at Sigma Chi.
Cryer accepted a Rockefeller Fellowship to study for the ministry at Yale Divinity School after graduating in 1958. He enrolled in Harvard Law School and was accepted in the fall of 1959, but he was working in Oklahoma! Curly was at the Polka Dot Playhouse in Bridgeport, Connecticut, summer, but she wanted to go into theater instead. In 1961, he enrolled at Boston University and received an MFA in directed.
Cryer began his service in the United States Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey, as a private, then moved to the Army Reserves in 1962 for six years.
Broadway career
Cryer has appeared in 13 Broadway shows, including Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera, Juan Peron in Evita, Rutledge in 1776, The Red Shadow in The Desert Song, and Jude Scribner in Come Summer. In The Fantasticks, The Streets of New York, Mademoiselle Colombe, and "Now is the Time for All Good Men" and The Making of Americans, leading roles off Broadway. In The King and I, Dyan Cannon appeared opposite Anna Maria Alberghetti in West Side Story, Giorgio Tozzi, and Riorgio Montalban in I Do! I Do!, Debby Boone in The Sound of Music, and Judy Kaye in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
"Mr. Cryer will return" when he opened in Come Summer in 1969, Clive Barnes of The New York Times announced. Anyone who looks a little like Rudolph Nureyev and sounds like Franco Corelli will have nothing to worry about in the future." His Juan Peron in Evita was "first-rate," according to Frank Rich of the Times, while John Corry, who was also a Times reporter, said it was "perfect." On two occasions, he has appeared as a guest soloist with The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
In 1983, Cryer performed in The Mirror Theater Ltd's first repertory season, including performances in the scripts Paradise Lost, Rain, Intuitors, and The Hasty Heart.
In 1998, the University of DePauw awarded Cryer an Alumni Citation Award, 2006, and the honorary degree Doctor of Arts in 2009.
The National Tour of The Fantasticks was produced by Albert Poland and Cryer, as well as the production of the Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford musical Now Is the Time for All Good Men, directed by Nicholas Cryer and Dennis Ford.
Cryer was one of the founders of Pittsburgh's American Conservatory Theater, which then moved to San Francisco. Geraldine Page appeared in Geraldine Page's Mirror Repertory Theatre in New York in 1983. He and others created the Mirror Repertory Theatre in New York.