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David Canary
David Canary was born on 25 August 1938, in Elwood, Indiana, and grew up in Massillon, Ohio. He attended the University of Cincinnati on a football scholarship, played varsity ball throughout his college career, was a Pop Warner Scholastic All-American at Cincinnati, and graduated as a music major specializing in voice in a unique university program that combined study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Before breaking into television, David performed on the stage, making his Broadway debut in Jose Quintero's production of Great Day in the Morning, with Colleen Dewhurst. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he restarted his career on the West Coast, starring in The Fantasticks in San Francisco. Periodically, David has returned to Broadway in such roles as Edouard in Tennessee Williams' Clothes for a Summer Hotel opposite Geraldine Page and Kenneth Haigh, also directed by Jose Quintero. New York audiences have seen him on stage in the title role of Strindberg's The Father, as El Gallo in The Fantasticks; in the Broadway musical, The Happiest Girl in the World; and Blood Moon. More recently, he appeared in Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name with Michael Learned; The Night of the Bear; Cobb, written by Lee Blessing, and Orphans by Lyle Kessler. In regional and stock theater, he played the title role in Macbeth at Actors Theater of Louisville, Elyot in Noel Coward's Private Lives; and a reprise of Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, for John Kenley in Ohio. He also played Macheath in The Beggar's Opera at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Trigorin in The Sea Gull at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and starred in Sweeney Todd at the North Shore Music Theatre. David returned to North Shore in the fall of 1998 to play the mercurial poet in Kismet. |
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