Photographic resume of my acting career!
THEATRICALLY SPEAKING
October 2006 (David in Mornings at Seven)
THIS IS ME
Well, it's close to what I look like. The facial hair alters with mood and acting roles.
Just so you know, Mickey Ray was my chosen name for theatre back in 1968. My birth name is Michael Pfleger. (Unless you're German, I doubt you can pronounce that correctly, so you now know why I changed it back then.
Sorry to say, but
the hair on the scalp gets a little thinner with every passing year.
EMAIL: mickeyray@stny.rr.com
Woodburn Court I
21-23 Exchange St.
Apt. 4 G
Binghamton, NY 13901
ACTOR - DIRECTOR - PLAYWRIGHT - SINGER - PUPPETEER -
VOCAL IMPRESSIONIST - VOCAL RANGE - BARITONE/TENOR
EXPERIENCE
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Limelight Dinner Theater |
Kansas City, Missouri |
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Off Broadway Dinner Theater |
Kansas City, Missouri |
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Waldo Astoria Theater |
Kansas City, Missouri |
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Resident Theater - Jewish Community Center |
Kansas City, Missouri |
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New Directions Theatre |
Kansas City, Missouri |
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Barn Players |
Shawnee Mission, Kansas |
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Northland Civic Theater |
North Kansas City, Missouri |
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Anderson Schoolhouse Dinner Theater |
Anderson, Iowa |
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Firehouse Dinner Theatre |
Omaha, Nebraska |
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Barn Dinner Theatre |
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Colonia Theatre |
Norwich, New York |
| Darkhorse Dramatist | Binghamton, New York |
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Cider Mill Playhouse The Forum Theatre |
Binghamton, New York Binghamton, New York |
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SRO Productions |
Binghamton, New York |
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Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier |
Binghamton, New York |
| Know Theatre | Binghamton, New York |
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Theatricks by Starlight Theatre |
Deposit, New York |
| Ti-Ahwaga Players | Owego, New York |
| Little Victorys Players | Hancock, New York |
| Endicott Performing Arts Center | Endicott, New York |
| DT Productions | Endicott, New York |
SPECIAL SKILLS
Character Actor
Quick line study
Regional & Foreign Accents
Team Player
Portrait and graphic artist
Puppeteer
Wearing the Playwright's Hat
"Unfaithful Descent"
Originally titled "Imagine This"
Seven characters - 3 males, 4 females One of the actresses, Naomi, should not be mentioned in the program, but announced, at the bows, after her surprise entrance at the end of the play
Five actors gather on the stage of their local community theater to read a new one act play called, "Sessions and Secrets”, written by one of their members, Naomi.
Although the new play takes place at a Catholic school, some actors begin to notice the resemblance of themselves in the various characters of Naomi's play. The resemblance leans towards their darker side and even darker secrets and, perhaps, somebody among them doesn't want their secret to be told.
A BRIEF INTRO OF THE SCRIPT
SUE - SUZANNE
BIG - BIGALOW
TERRY - TERRANCE
JAN - JANISE
RICH - RICHARD
VEL - VELMA
NAOMI
SUE: (She pours a Styrofoam cup full of coffee, adding sugars and creamer)
Oh my God! Will you look at these! Naomi, you are a wonder! I swear she could
put Martha Stewart to shame!
BIG: Yes, well where is our budding little playwright?
TERRY: (Reading his script) Probably taking another pee, she’s so nervous!
JAN: She should be! Are you reading what I’m reading?
SUE: (Returning to her seat, a paper plate heaped with confections) Why?
Is it simply awful? What’s bad?
JAN: Please. At this point, bad would be good!
TERRY: I don’t know. I kind of like it!
RICH: You would! Your character, Father Keough, is so damn …Gay!
JAN: Well, what can you expect? The poor dear, after three submissions to our
play reading committee, and having every one of them rejected, she must have
taken our advice. ...“Write about what you know!”
BIG: (Straight forward, without emphasis) Naomi is not gay.
JAN: Well, I didn’t say she was. But she’s certainly watched our dear little
Terrance here, hasn’t she?
TERRY: (Lifts his eyebrows and gives her a look. Jan bats her eyes and smiles
back.)
RICH: Well, at least the handsome, Hispanic gardener is straight.
SUE: Hispanic? How cliché! Seems like everything you see in the movies and on TV
lately is…gay! (She pops in a piece of cake)
TERRY: (Defensive) And your point being…?
SUE: (Mouth full and apologetic) Well, nothing…it’s just that, well…
BIG: In any case, there’s nothing in here for me.
JAN: What about Father Bailey? It looks like he’s got some great dialogue at the
end of scene one.
BIG: He’s not English.
VEL: (Entering) Then drop the phony English accent, John, and try using
your own voice …for a change! (Velma is a tall, commanding personality who
easily takes over a room by her very presence)
BIG: (Looking insulted, he gets up and goes to coffee table)
TERRY: (Rises) Velma! (Runs up to hug her)
VEL: (Stopping him) Ah-ah! Not today, dear. I think I’m coming down with
something and I don’t want to give it to you!
RICH: Great, so you brought it with you to share with all of us!
VEL: (Taking off her coat) Just avoiding close contact, my dear. Nothing
you need to worry about.
RICH: Ouch! Score one for Velma.
VEL: Don’t count, Richard, you’ll get a headache. (Looking around) Well,
where’s our precious Naomi? (Looks at the coffee table) I could smell her
baked goodies from the lobby.
"Condescending Order"
"The Next Time"
One act play - monologue - 1 Male 65 or older - 7 - 10 minutes.
A bitter old man is angry and tired of his surroundings, his neighbors and their pets and has decided to do something permanent about it.
A BRIEF INTRO OF THE SCRIPT
When the act opens, Leonard is sitting in his rocker reading his paper and listening to a PBS radio music station playing, Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain", when we hear the yelping of a small dog outside the window.
LEONARD: (Angrily tossing down the newspaper and turning off the radio, he rises and crosses to the window.) Damn little nuisances…stupid mutts!! (He opens the window.) Hey! Shut that damned dog up out there. I can’t hear m’self think with all that damned yapping!
A VOICE: (There is real fear in the voice.) Sorry Mr. Virgil! My grandson let him off his leash and he got out…
LEONARD: I don’t give a damned about yer dog or your bratty grandson! Keep ‘em off my yard and away from my house…or the next time…the next time…I’ll…I’ll…well, just keep ‘em out of my way!
A VOICE: Yes, Mr. Virgil. It won’t happen again. I promise!
LEONARD: (He sticks his hand out and makes a gesture. Closing the window, he mutters to himself.) Damned right it won’t happen again! (Leonard talks to himself a great deal, as well as to the photograph of his deceased wife, which sits on the end table.) I’ve already got rid of three damned dogs in this neighborhood!
You are welcome to order any of these scripts in Word document form, or as a PDF file, to use in a not-for-profit production and no fee will be charged.
Along with your request for these scripts, you must send the name of the company producing the play, where it's playing and the dates of the production.
The person requesting the scripts must send their home address, email address, and a phone contact to be verified before receiving them.
"Auto Motive"
One act play - monologue -1 Female (Felicia, the computer), 1 Male 40 - 65 (Lyman Cooke, the car owner), 1 Male 25 - 45 (Anthony Michaels - Policeman) - 7 - 10 minutes.
An automobile's computer is upset with the owner's neglect of his car and decides it's time to end it all...permanently!
A BRIEF INTRO OF THE SCRIPT
There is a
great deal of pantomiming in this play, since the actors have nothing but a
few props and chairs. (Two actors in black could also be used as ‘the car”.
There should also be many sound effects available where needed, ‘the car’
actors could provide much of those effects.
Time: 7:00 AM. This play takes place in the future. (No specific date.)
Felicia enters stage and sits in the chair preset on stage right. Mr. Cooke
enters and walks to over to his preset chair, center stage, clicking his car
key mechanism to open the door. He pantomimes opening the door but it
doesn’t open. He clicks the mechanism again with the same results.
Lyman: Damn it!
(He turns away from the door, looking at his car keys, and the door suddenly
opens, hitting him in the ass. He reacts accordingly.) Ow! What the…?
(Aggravated, he gets into the car, puts the key into the ignition, starts
the car, puts his seat belt on and shuts the door. We hear the doors lock.
He too hears them and is a bit stunned.)
Felicia: Good morning, Mr. Cooke.
Lyman: Good morning, Felicia. What’s with the doors locking?
Felicia: Just a safety precaution, sir.
Lyman: Really? That’s a first. I don’t recall the car doing that before,
unless I press the ‘lock doors’ button over here on the door rest.
Felicia: What is your route today, sir?
Lyman: Oh…uh, 3212 Melrose.
Felicia: Fine, sir. I’ll display the map.
Lyman: Not necessary, I know the way.
Felicia: Fine, sir. I’ll display the map.
Lyman: (Sighs) Fine! Turn the radio on to station 102.5 classic music.
(Rock music suddenly blares on.)
Lyman: Hey, hey hey! What are you doing? I said CLASSIC music, not that
crap!
Felicia: Sorry, sir, I must have misunderstood you. (The music cuts off and
nothing else comes on.) Sorry, but there seems to be some sort of radio
signal interference.
Lyman: To hell with it. There’s the local elementary school so I’ve only got
a few more blocks to go anyway and… (Suddenly the car jerks, the motor revs
up and starts picking up speed.)
First performed at the Cider Mill Playhouse in Binghamton, NY, July 15th & 16th, directed by Missy Harris.
THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS FROM 1969 TO 2014
(Many shows and roles were repeated through the years with various companies.)
* = repeated roles
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PRODUCTIONS |
REPRESENTATIVE ROLES |
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**"Oliver" |
**Fagin |
| "Curious Savage" | Senator Titus SavageSAVAGE |
| "Bald Soprano" | The Fire Chief |
| "Kind Sir" | The Delivery Boy (written into script) |
| "High Spirits" (Musical version of "Blithe Spirit") | Hippy |
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"Boys in the Band" |
Emory |
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"Mousetrap" |
Christopher Wren |
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"Towards Zero" |
Mathew Treves |
| "The Good Doctor" | Multiple Roles (see below) |
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**"Camelot" |
Mordred & King Pellinore |
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***"Cabaret" |
The Emcee |
| "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" | Twimble |
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**"Guys and Dolls" |
**Nicely-Nicely Johnson |
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"Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" |
Littlechap |
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Cocky |
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**"Jesus Christ Superstar" |
Judas and Herod |
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"Godspell" |
Jesus |
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"See How They Run" |
Revrand Arthur Humphrey |
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"Fiddler on the Roof" |
Tevye |
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"Teahouse of the August Moon" |
Sakini |
| "The Good Doctor" | Multiple Roles (see below) |
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"110 in the Shade" |
H. C. Curray |
| "Spoon River Anthology | Multiple Roles (see below) |
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"The Rainmaker" |
Sheriff Thomas |
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"Two by Two" |
Noah |
| "What the Butler Saw" | Bellboy |
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"The Fantasticks" |
Henry Alberson (The Actor) |
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"The Fantasticks" |
Mr. Hucklebee (Matt's Father) |
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"1776" |
John Dickinson |
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***"My Fair Lady" |
**Doolittle & Pickering |
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"Anything Goes" |
Sir Evelyn Oakley |
| "Little Me" | Multiple Roles |
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"Our Town" |
Simon Stimson |
| **"Bent" | Nazi Captain and Uncle Freddie |
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"Buried Child" |
Dodge |
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"Oklahoma" |
Carnes |
| "Glass" | Multiple Roles (see below) |
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"Pajama Game" |
Myron J. Hasler |
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"Any Wednesday" |
Cass henderson |
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"The Busybody" |
Lt. Harry Baxter |
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"A Touch of Spring" |
Vitoria Spina |
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"Red Dawg" |
Sneaky Fitch |
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"Cactus Flower" |
Senor Arturo Sanchez |
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"Wife Begins at Forty" |
Roger Dixon |
| "Fool for Love" | Old Man |
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"45 Seconds from Broadway" |
Mickey FoxY |
| "You Can't Take It With You" | Grandpa Vanderhof / Boris Kolenkhov |
| "Company" | Larry |
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"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" |
Doc Baugh |
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"Not Now, Darling" |
Harry McMichael |
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"Last Night of Ballyhoo" |
Adolph Frietag |
| "The Dining Room" | Multiple Roles (see below) |
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"Dracula" |
Dr. Seward |
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"Enter Laughing" |
Foreman |
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"Sweeney Todd" |
Judge Turpin |
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"Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" |
Edward Sheridan |
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"Cyrano" |
Multiple Roles (see below) |
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"Amadeus" |
Emperor Joseph II |
| "Middle of Nowhere" | Mr. C |
| "Hancock Stories" | Boney Quillen |
| "Mornings at Seven" | David Crampton |
| "The Snowman in My Window" | Santa Claus |
| "Interstate" | Radio Announcer |
| "Macabre Cadabra" | Lous Cypher |
| "Where the Holidays Go: The Musical" | Santa Claus |
| "Samuel Beckett Drives Andre the Giant to School | Samuel Beckett |
| "Shakespear Lives" | Cashio |
| "The Next Time" | Leonard |
Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier
and
Mindin' the Music
A Stitch in Time
Alice in Blunderland
The Ep-prentice
Revenge of the Orb: Bi-Powerman Begins
Showdown at the Bouncin' Badge Saloon
Productions with multiple characters
"THE GOOD DOCTOR"
Cherdyakov, "The Sneeze" ;
The Sailor, "The Drowned Man";
Kistonov, "A Defenseless Creature"
Resident Theatre - Jewish Community Center Kansas City, MO
1975 - Directed by George Luce
"GLASS"
Professor Lodovicho, The Doge, Dr. Brain on Fire, Survivor
Roberson Museum - Binghamton, NY
Directed by Ernie Schenk
"THE DINING ROOM"
Act I
Scene 1; Client, Scene 2; Father, Scene 6; Psychiatrist, Scene 7; Little Boy, Scene 8; Grandfather, Scene 10; Stuart,
Act II
Scene 4; Jim, Scene 6 ;
Ti-Ahwaga Theatre - Owego, NY
Directed by Linda Fenescey
"LITTLE ME"
Noble Eggleston, Mr. Pinchley, Bernie Buchsman, Val Du Val, Lucky, Fred, Prince Cherney
Anderson Schoolhouse Dinner Theatre - Anderson, IA
Directed by George Luce
"SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY"
Tom Beatty, Reuben Pantier, Fiddler Jones, Eugene Carman, Franklin Jones, Silas Dement and Barney Hainsfeather
Little Victory Players - Hancock, NY
Directed by Ernie Schenk
"CYRANO"
Ragueneau, Mont Fleury, Capuchin Monk, Guard
Little Victory Players - Hancock, NY
Directed by Ernie Schenk
Paul Revere, Charles Bashwet McKinley, Jimmy Reilly
Little Victory Players - Hancock, NY
Directed by Judith Present
Jimmy Reilly is a double amputee Vet who finds himself having to beg on the streets in order to survive.
I've been performing this monologue for several years and in various locales, primarily to raise money for our Veterans.
RELIGIOUS PRODUCTIONS
"Jesus Christ Superstar" Judas '75 - King Herod 2009
"Godspell" Jesus
"To the Castle"
"Eyes Upon the Cross" Peter, Centurion
"A Matter of Death...and Life Person #1
"The Case of the Missing Teacher" Inspector Casey Solved
"The Complete History of the Old Testament in Twenty Minutes"
Noah, Moses and assorted unnamed biblical characters
IN THE CHORUS
"South Pacific", "Sound of Music", "Side by Side by Sondheim"
Wearing the Director's Hat
As time went by, I often wound up directing shows that I'd also appeared in.
I have only had to direct myself in emergencies when a cast member was no longer a part of the show for whatever reasons. I have not
purposely directed myself in any lead role, nor do I envy anyone who takes on
that task.
Productions
"Oliver"
"My Fair Lady"
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
"Fiddler on the Roof"
"The Busybody"
"Blithe Spirit"
2001 Theatricks by Starlight
2008 Ti-Ahwaga Players
"Little Me"
"Mindin' the Music"
"Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will?"
"Mindgame"
"American Buffalo"
"Don Wannabe"
Click the decade to see the pix!
Still singing away, you can catch my renditions of "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", and "The Shadow of Your Smile", right here!
KARAOKE VIDEOS
Appearing at MAD MOOSE in Binghamton, NY
with the KARAOKE CONNECTION
Singing "What a Wonderful World"
Singing "The Shadow of Your Smile"
Singing "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"
Singing "Unforgettable"
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Drew pioneered the Midwest gay movement in 1966, when he bought a three story home in Kansas City and used the entire first floor and basement to house this homophile organization.
My eclectic, artistic background and biography.
I provide a detailed, intimate look at my personal life and background for those of you who hold such interests.
And in case you didn't already know, the owner, designer, artist & writer of this site happens to be
OPENLY GAY!
If this is surprising and/or especially disturbing news to you, then you're probably a stranger and got here by mistake. While being gay is a real and significant part of my life, its political agenda, its cause and effect, is NOT the running purpose of this site. This site expresses many of the personal and artistic facets of my life as well as provides a forum for professional and non-professional theatrical and artistic interests and pursuits, for both the watchers and the participants.
If you must leave before checking this site out, goodbye, good luck and may the force be with you!
My one and only life partner for 21 years!
IN MEMORANDUM
April 9th, 1936 - September 30th, 1989
THE ARTIST
Some of my pencil/pen and ink renditions, cartoons and portraits!
This page of my artwork is dedicated to my favorite Divas!
This is a dedication memorial page to my mother, Lillian Marie Hoyt ~ Pfleger/Chiusano
I created transparent, clipart you may use freely for your email or web pages!
MY DAYS
IN
An Extension of my performance past!
My whole new family and my newest artistic endeavor!
THE WRITER
Stories, prose & poetry by yours truly. Still under construction.
SOMETHING JUST FOR FUN
Take a walk down memory lane, or drive down in your '57 Ford Fairlane...
What do you remember about the 50s??? What have your parents told you????