Michael James Fry

Michael James Fry grew up in a small town in Ohio; and when he was young, his parents took him to see many professional Broadway touring companies who performed full-length plays and musicals at **Memorial Hall** , located in nearby [downtown] Dayton, through association with the Kenley Players. It was at this early-teen age in the 1970's that Michael had the good fortune to meet, face-to-face, with Vincent Price, Mickey Rooney, Lucy Arnez, Don Ameche, Shirley Jones, Shawn Cassidy, Ann Miller, Tommy Tune, David Birney, James Farentino, Henry Winkler, Barry Williams, Roz Kelly, Brenda Vacarro and many others - and thus accordingly, his lifelong desire to become an actor in the theatre was vibrantly born. Michael's first theatrical performance - (outside of playing an average shepherd; or, on one occasion, Joseph, in various Christmas plays in a local church) - was as a sailor in the chorus of a junior high school production of Gilbert & Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore", in which he wore hi