MICHAEL JAMES FRY

Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, presents MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS as part of their Summerstage Program in 1987. Starring Scott Stoney, Kevin Moore, Michael James Fry and Valerie Holland.

Welcome to the completely sold out (and held-over-by-popular-demand) theatrical production of the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical HAIR, performed LIVE on stage in the Festival Playhouse at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, in the spring of 1986. Directed by Mark Olsen. BOOK: James Rado and Gerome Ragni MUSIC: Galt McDermot CAST: BERGER: Brent Holten CLAUDE: Timothy Kelly SHELIA: Teresa Wallace HUD: Ric Walker WOOF: Michael James Fry RON: J'Von Pierce MARGARET MEAD: Donna J. Blanchard DIONNE: Valerie Holland Hughes CRISSIE: Sherri Beth Simmons JEANIE: Valeria F. Ghiran STEVE: Daniel James Devlin DUDLEY (Berger/US): Christopher Gillespie JERRY: (Claude/US): Brad Sherwood TIFFANY: Kellie Johnson SHARON: Katrina Oost DENNIS: Rod Sirbaugh BOSCO: Jeffrey Shivar SHERMAN: Bran Nelson Winters SKEETER: Ned Folkerth TORK: Bills Torres LEATA: Andrea "Dee" Riley BILLI: Dina N. Taylor ANGELA: Aimee Miller PATTI: Jeri M. Combs PAULA: Gina Gardner CINDI: Jane Wilson NICK: Leonard Daniel TIME TRAVELERS: Christian Brake, Tim T. Brown, Penny Marie DePhillip, Jay Eller, Kellyann Feehan, Thomas P. Gunning, Jeffrey Hartman, Jennifer Hartman, Annette Minseko, Sean O'Neil, Michelle Saez, Charles Tisdale SWING/BACKUP SINGERS: Lisa M. Keller, Ken Bolander Interviews with cast and crew members were filmed in the "Commons" outside the Festival Playhouse at Wright State University where the show was performed. CHOREOGRAPHY: Sandra Tanner, Suzanne Walker MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Joseph Bates SCENIC and LIGHTING DESIGN: Joseph P. Tilford COSTUME DESIGN: D. Bartlett Blair TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Don David STAFF COSTUMER: Janice Lives SOUND DESIGNER: Phil Rundle PROPERITES MASTER: Dan Liebcap THE BAND: JOSEPH BATES: Keyboards SCOTT BLANFORD: Rhythm and Lead Guitars NED FOLKERTH: Drums, Percussion TIMMY TAYLOR: Bass Guitar ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Jane Hinders STAGE MANAGER: Kimberly Anne Lavelle ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS: Patrick Horn, Troy Mulvaine HOUSE MANAGERS: John Bargdill, Dawn Keenan ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER: Ann Mitchell HEAD CARPENTER: Tory Martin ASSISTANT to the TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: James O'Neil SCENIC ARTIST: Michael Brewer ELECTRICIANS: Max Newhart, Tom Sekera SOUND TECHNICIAN: Cedric Collier SHOP CARPENTERS: David Hughes, Michael Berke, Ron Green, Paul Jacunski, Deborah Lehman, James Scott, Chris Snider, David Monnin PROPERTIES CREW: Matt Taylor, Kevis Bouquot, Jess Strohaver LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR: Max Newhart SOUND BOARD OPERATOR: Cedric Collier FOLLOW SPOT OPERATORS: Michael Brewer, David Hughes, Paul Jacunski, James Scott FLOOR SOUND TECHNICIAN: James O'Neill FLOOR ELECTRICIAN: Tom Sekera HEAD FLOOR CARPENTER: Tory Martin FLOOR CARPENTERS: Michael Berke, Ron Green, Deborah Lehman, Jim McCarthy GAFFERS: Rod Allen, Shari Doran, Brent Downey, Walter Fugate, Ken Hollem PROPERTIES RUN CREW: Christie Savoca, Robert Pruchniewicz, Kevin Bouquot, Jenny Gordan ASSISTANT to the COSTUME DESIGNER: Lynda Kay Hornada WARDROBE RUN CREW: L.K. Hornada, Justy Hagen, Dale Monday COSTUME CONSTRUCTION CREW: Justy Hagen, Sheri Beth Simmons, Lori Coleman, Barb Siewecki, Dale Monday, Mary Hemmert, Betsy Soerens *This show was was copied from an old VHS video cassette.

This is the Helter Skelter Door theatrical prop used LIVE on stage in "Piggie, Piggie, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb" - a One Man Play about Charles Manson written, directed, produced and performed by Michael James Fry on March 11th & 12th, 1986, at the Celebration Theatre (now called the Herbst Theatre) at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

MICHAEL JAMES FRY as Timofei (in an expanded video performance) in the 2018 Off-Off Broadway Pilvax production of Matei Visniec's "How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients". Performed LIVE at the New Stage Performance Space, 36 West 106th Street near Central Park, New York City, 10025. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

THE MATCHMAKER by Thornton Wilder as presented by the Sinclair Summer Stock of 1987. This show was performed at Blair Hall in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Directed by Marsha Hanna. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

HAY FEVER by Noel Coward, as performed by the Findlay College Summer Stock Theatrical Company of 1985. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Directed by Barry Alexander. CAST: SOREL BLISS: Sylvia Vizcaya SIMON BLISS: Tim Lile CLARA: Coleen Martin JUDITH BLISS: Sabrina Switzer DAVID BLISS: Brien Hagerman SANDY TYRELL: Michael James Fry MYRA ARUNDEL: Eve Schlosberg Elliot RICHARD GREATHAM: Doug Balance JACKIE CORYTON: Deb Prichard TIME: Saturday Afternoon, Evening and Sunday Morning in June, 1925 PLACE: Hall of the Bliss' House at Cookham Performed LIVE on stage at the Egner Theatre in the summer of 1985 on the Findlay College campus, Findlay, Ohio. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

The cast of 1776, who had performed the entire show at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, also performed an edited version of the show in the Spring of 1988. This is the only known recording of that one-time performance, dubbed from an old VHS video tape. This performance features Michael James Fry as John Hancock and as the Narrator to this show, (who also played Stephen Hopkins in the original production. ) Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK by Neil Simon, as performed by the Findlay College Summer Stock Theatrical Company of 1985; featuring a special guest appearance by Michael James Fry as Neil Simon (who also played the eccentric neighbor Victor Velasco.) CAST: Neil Simon (Playwrite): Michael James Fry Corie Bratter (Newlywed): Johnna Schmidt Harry Pepper (Telephone Man): Eric McPherson B. Keaton (Delivery Man): Mel Platzke E. Lloyd (Window Washer): Thad Welch Paul Bratter (Newlywed): Tim Lile Ethel Banks (Mother): Sylvia Vizcaya Victor Velasco (Gourmet): Michael James Fry Directed by Sabrina Switzer. Artistic Director: Barry Alexander NOTE: The opening sequence when Corie first enters the apartment at the top of the show is covered with music by Johann Sebastian Bach to avoid a copyright strike against this channel. The original music in the theatre was "P.S. I Love You" by the Beatles" (1963). When I first uploaded this video with the Beatles' music, the video was blocked worldwide by YouTube so I had to re-upload the show with other music that was deemed acceptable. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

I'll be the first to say that I'm a stage actor (for the theatre) and when we shot these scenes in the Spring of 1986 at Wright State University, I simply did not know what I was doing. I was young and inexperienced with being on camera . . . Just horrible . . . I did a truly horrible job in this class . . . My success over the years since then was almost entirely on the stage, having performed in about 80 full-length productions, eventually leading me to star in the Off-Broadway Musical, "Captain Filthy Fred" in New York City in the summer of 2018. Thanks for watching.

This brief play by Harold Pinter was performed LIVE at the Duality Playhouse in New York City in the early 1990's, and stars Michael James Fry and Sharon Johnson. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

Directed by Teri Maxine Bartolo, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM was originally produced at the William Carlos Williams Vaudeville House in East Rutherford, New Jersey; and then, subsequently, in Montclair, New Jersey, where this performance was recorded in the early 1990's. Starring Michael James Fry as Nick Bottom and Marca Leigh as Puck. CAST: John Cassidy Pamela Colby Joseph Dowd Corrine Francois Michael James Fry Debbie Guarino Joshua Guarino Brian Hackett Stephen Hollinder Gwendolyn Jones Darrell Kaplan Lori Karz Racheal Lehman Marca Leigh John Leyman Ruby Lopez George Rex Soraya Ken Shactman Jessica Sklar Beth Soroken Jeffrey Stein Kimberly Swan Diane Sye Amelia Pucci A New Jersey State Counsel on the Arts production. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe.

These are some of my photos from Central Park, NYC. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

Join me on a brief visit to Led Zeppelin's PHYSICAL GRAFFITI buildings and the Rolling Stones' ST. MARK's BAR in the East Village of New York City. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

Historic bomber jacket gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. These aren't the only jackets at the museum, but these are the ones collected together in this particular display. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

Greatest Hits of Michael James Fry. [1] Oops, Oops, Oops, Oops! [2] Uh, That's Not Quite Right [3] If You Ask Me, It Looks Pretty Good [4] Blue Gatorade [5] Are We Live? [6] Are You Having A Good Time? [7] This Is Weird [9] What The . . . ? Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

This video program celebrates the adventures of my facial hair in theatrical plays, musicals, movies, TV shows, photo shoots, paintings, drawings and other public and/or media appearances. *** Artists, Directors and/or Photographers whose work appears in this video include: Henry Caughey The Chinese artist on the street CJ Phillips Penny Collins / Studio 566 The Costume, Hair and Makeup Crew of "The Deuce" / HBO The Costume, Hair and Makeup Crew of "Dietland" / AMC Network Michael James Fry Stephen Fry Photography The costume, hair and makeup crew of "Hightown" / STARZ Network The WB costume, hair and makeup crew of the 2019 JOKER movie NonoArtPhotography Max Pearlman The costume, hair and makeup crew of Stephen Spielberg's THE POST The costume, hair and makeup crew of "Ray Donovan" / Showtime Roberta, from the Wright State University Media Department Elizabeth Ann Salato Phillip Thies The costume, hair and makeup crew of "VINYL" / HBO Alan Wurman Others - (Unknown)

Artist / Actor Phillip Thies paints Michael James Fry in "Street Scene" in the spring of 2012 in New York City. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

This video features a brief walking tour of your standard construction/graffiti tunnel in New York City. This tunnel is located in a neighborhood called CHELSEA, on 23rd Street in Manhattan, between 6th and 7th Avenues, near the blind hospital. This video was shot on the morning of March 31, 2015 By the way, this is the same tunnel that suffered the now well-known "Chelsea Bomb Terror Attack" of 2016 - I shot this video about a year-and-a-half before that incident. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

I grew up in Park Layne, Ohio, and have always loved the Park Layne Drive-In. That place has always been very special to me for many reasons: after my parents had moved to Park Layne in the early 1960's my mother worked the concession stand at that Drive-in. She did this job - selling food for money - with no cash register. Then as a family, when I was old enough, we used to go there and watch movies - and it was always a Double-Feature! I remember jumping all around the playground at the age of five down in front of the screen as the sun went down - and then retreating back to the safety of the family car when the pre-show cartoons began to roll across the screen. Many years later, after securing a legal work permit at the age of 16 (and with no involvement from my mother AT ALL) - I wound up working the very same job in the summer of 1980 - and still with no cash register!! This brief interlude is my attempt to expand upon the concept of the [original] film it is based upon - which is my effort from 2010 called, "Death of Park Layne Drive-In 12/30/09." That movie was shot from a laptop computer that I was carrying around in my arms because it was the only camera I had at the time. The final movie showing at the then-deserted auto-ampitheatre was in 2007; and the lot had remained abandoned for years. I had to go ahead and capture what I could on that day when I had the chance to because for a long time there had been too many strong rumors that the place was going to be torn down - and sadly, it eventually was. The footage in the original film is dark and it shakes a lot - - - which, after nearly two years, finally gave me the idea to create a different kind of Park Layne Drive-In tour based upon still photographs that I took during the "film shoot" on the very same day (and with the very same laptop computer) - making this movie not a sequel to the original; but because the original is comprised solely of unedited, moving footage, this film is best characterized as an alternate version to the original that was also spawned from the photographic results of that very special day - making it at the very least, in my humble opinion, an equal to the original. THIS FILM IS DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER. Thanks very much for watching and please comment below.

In this video, people who wanted to audition for the YouTube time capsule movie called, "LIFE IN A DAY", were asked to answer four distinct questions and reveal what they physically had in their pockets. This footage was shot on a 2008 Toshiba Laptop computer because I didn't have a digital camera at the time. After having submitted this audition video, the producers asked me to re-upload the content because (as I believe it to be) they wanted a visual image that was more clear and less grainy. It was made clear that producer Ridley Scott favored digital cameras; and therefore, I further believe that is why this tape wasn't included in the final edit of the film. However, it was still a great experience and I had a wonderful time watching the movie and all the other auditions that were posted to YouTube. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

I was carrying a laptop computer to record this visit to Park Layne Drive-In, located on State Route 4/235 in Park Layne Manor near New Carlisle, Ohio. The date of this video walking tour is 12/30/09. This is where I worked my very first paying job as a teenager, back in 1980. When my family moved to Park Layne in the 1960's my mother worked the counter selling treats to the customers with no cash register. With no help from her, I was hired to perform the exact same task (at a minumum wage of $3.10 an hour) in 1979, and there was STILL no cash register. Movies we saw as a family [that I remember] include from 1969 Planet of the Apes/A Man Called Horse; and also from 1969 - Walt Disney's The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. Later in 1977, I remember Smokey and the Bandit as being A VERY BIG HIT in the Park Layne/Crystal Lake/Medway/New Carlisle area. Movies shows when I worked there that summer in 1980 were All That Jazz/The Rose and Used Cars/Fatso/The End. Opened in 1962 by Chakeres Theatres and closed in 2007, the now dilapidated venue is currently slated for the construction of a massive church. Rumors abound as to the future of this classic Big Screen - i.e., would it be a mistake to tear it down in view of its historical importance, and might it be retained for future in-house use or possible public rental?

Join me for a nice, quiet walk through Madison Square Park on a Sunday morning in New York City. This video was shot on May 24, 2015 (on Memorial Day weekend) and so there weren't that many people around. Nice!

While the Dakota apartment building in New York City is well-known for being prominently featured in Roman Polanski's 1968 motion picture occult-horror classic, ROSEMARY'S BABY; it is probably best known as the home of John Lennon and his wife Yoko from 1973 until his shocking assassination at the building's southern archway in 1980. Thank you, John Lennon, for believing in PEACE. Thanks for watching! Please subscribe! : )

This video documents the summer of 2018 and my involvement with east coast Show Business in New York City ~ Specifically my starring role in the Off-Broadway Musical, "Captain Filthy Fred", my supporting role in the Off-Off Broadway play, "How to Teach the History of Communism to Mental Patients" and a couple of very small TV appearances . . . This video also highlights a drawing of me made by artist New York artist Phillip Thies. The drawing portrays me as "The Homeless Man" in the Bruck/DeMaio Off-Off Broadway Romantic Comedy Musical called, "Madison Square Park" ~ I had a supporting role in that show; and I I have to say the music from that show genuinely touched my heart. All summer long that year, it was a pleasure to work with such talented people. The summer of 2018 truly was one of the most remarkable times in all of my adult life! *** SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO: Broadwayworld.com Michael Bruck Tina Buckman Michael DeMaio Cassandra Marie Lambros The Medicine Show Theatre Mario Morales NonoArtPhotography Pilvax Productions Elizabeth Ann Salato Phillip Thies Matei Visniec Alan Wurman Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!

I played a supporting role in the Off-Off Broadway Musical called, "Madison Square Park" at the Medicine Show Theatre in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City, in the summer of 2018. I don't have an audio or video recording of me in the show - (only the photos you see here) - and what you hear in this video is the original recording that I learned this song from. Every song in this show is fantastically beautiful; and doing this show was one of the happiest times in my entire life. Thanks for watching. You're invited to subscribe!