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Donald David Cryer (born March 8, 1936) is a veteran American stage, television and film actor and singer and one of the founders of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater which began in Pittsburgh and New York’s Mirror Repertory Theatre. In recent years, he is best known for the role of Firmin in ''The Phantom of the Opera'', which he has played for nearly 19 years on the road and on Broadway. He has also played more performances of the Bernstein Mass, as The Celebrant (including at the Metropolitan Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and more performances as Juan Peron in ''Evita'' than any other actor. Cryer and his first wife, the songwriter Gretchen Cryer, are the parents of the actor Jon Cryer and his sister Robin Cryer Hyland.〔http://www.vtowncartelmusic.com/browse-music/vtown-cartel/vc031-eclectic-pop〕 With his second wife, the dancer and actress Britt Swanson, he is the father of four children: Rachel, Daniel,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dan Cryer )〕 Carolyn,〔http://dougelkinschoreography.com/?page_id=3〕 and Bill. He has eight grandchildren. == Early years == Cryer was born Donald David Cryer in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Pauline (née Spitler) (1910-1952) and Donald Walter Cryer (1909-1988), a well-known Methodist minister in the West Ohio Conference. At the time of his birth, his father was attending Garrett Biblical Institute at Northwestern University. He grew up in Toledo, Carey, Westerville, and Findlay, Ohio, where his father served congregations; he graduated from Findlay High School in 1954. He has three siblings: Jonathan Douglas〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prof. Jon Cryer '61 Authors Second Edition of Time Series Analysis with Applications in R )〕 a retired professor of statistics and actuarial science at the University of Iowa, Daniel Walter Cryer author of a forthcoming biography of theologian Forrest Church as well as a former Newsday critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Mary Kathleen (Kathy) a teacher. His mother Pauline died in 1952. His father married Mary Garrison in 1955, adding step-siblings William, Katherine and Rebecca Garrison. He graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1958, with a B.A. in History with Honors including the Walker Cup, given to the senior who has contributed the most to DePauw, Gold Key awarded to juniors for leadership and scholarship and the Lewis Sermon Award for an original sermon. He became deeply involved in music, playing trombone in the Orchestra, and Ray North’s dance band, and singing in The Lost Chords (a quartet modeled on The Four Freshmen), the University Choir, the Collegians, Opera Workshop, the SDX Revue and the Monon Revue. He was president of the Student Senate and pledge trainer at Sigma Chi. Upon graduation in 1958 he accepted a Rockefeller Fellowship to study for the ministry at Yale Divinity School. He applied to Harvard Law School and was enrolled in the fall of 1959, but was in a production of ''Oklahoma!'' as Curly at the Polka Dot Playhouse in Bridgeport, Connecticut that summer and decided to go into the theater instead. He enrolled at Boston University and earned an MFA in Directing in 1961. In 1961, he served in the U. S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey as a private and then entered the Army Reserves in 1962 for six years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Cryer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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