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Cy Young, Jr
Biography
CY YOUNG
Mr. Young began his professional career as a member of the Meryl Abbot Dancers at the Empire Room of Chicago's Palmer House. After a year on the road dancing the “Steam Heat” number in Pajama Game, he repeated the performance in the New York City Center production. He appeared Off-Broadway in The Boyfriend and Diversions and a revue at New York's Blue Angel by Chicago's Fred Ebb. On Broadway, Cy was featured in the musical Girls Against The Boys starring Bert Lahr, and was a principal in Subways Are For Sleeping, a Comden & Green musical. He received rave reviews for his appearance at the chic nightclub, Number One Fifth Avenue, and was a regular performer in revues at New York's elegant Upstairs At The Downstairs. He can be heard on many Upstairs recordings. Young is also a featured singer on Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles albums of Rodgers & Hart and Jerome Kern. Cy performed with the famous childrens' troupe, The Paper Bag Players, for six months in NYC. Next came a tour with the national company of Once Upon a Mattress playing the Prince to Buster Keaton's king, followed by a tour of On A Clear Day starring Howard Keel and Karen Black. Mr. Young stopped the show each night with a spectacular rendition of Wait 'Til We're Sixty Five. Called to London by Diversions director Steven Vinaver, he starred as Bobby in Sandy Wilson's Divorce Me Darling at the Globe Theatre and can be heard on the original cast album. He was featured in Bagley's "Cole Porter" Review in San Francisco. Recently Cy performed in the Oklahoma City Lyric Theater's productions of The Music Man (Mayor Schinn) and George M (Jerry). Cy also played Will’s dad in the Candlewood Long Island production of The Will Roger’s Follies.
Young has had three plays published by Samuel French and three musicals produced in NYC Off-Broadway. Other writing credits: over 40 radio plays for Heartbeat Theatre in Los Angles; animation scripts for Rankin Bass' Silverhawks TV series (The Blue Door, Sneak Attacks 1 & 2); material for Mort Lachman (Gimme A Break), and R.J. Wagner (Hart-To-Hart). He was head writer for Ralph Andrews at Columbia TV for a game show pilot (Show Me). His screenplay, The Kings of October, was optioned by John Wayne's Batjak Productions. Young was a segment producer on F. Lee Bailey's Lie Detector television series. Cy's song, Draw Me A Circle, is on the Streisand Third Album and was used to open one of her early TV specials. Young's short story, The Schitzel Connection, is available on Twit Publishing, Winter/Spring 2011 edition, an internet publishing org. Cy's CD, Aesop's Fables, can be purchased at Midwest Tapes where he is a vendor. His musical, The Childrens' Crusade, has been produced at Oklahoma City University, a 20-minute version of the mega-musical was presented with Conductor Robert Radmer’s Balcones Community Orchestra in January, 2016, and Cy is currently working on a production of the musical in Austin.
Mr. Young is a member of Actor's Equity Association, Screen Actor's Guild, and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He holds an Active Membership in The Dramatists Guild as well as The Author's League of America and is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Mr. Young began his professional career as a member of the Meryl Abbot Dancers at the Empire Room of Chicago's Palmer House. After a year on the road dancing the “Steam Heat” number in Pajama Game, he repeated the performance in the New York City Center production. He appeared Off-Broadway in The Boyfriend and Diversions and a revue at New York's Blue Angel by Chicago's Fred Ebb. On Broadway, Cy was featured in the musical Girls Against The Boys starring Bert Lahr, and was a principal in Subways Are For Sleeping, a Comden & Green musical. He received rave reviews for his appearance at the chic nightclub, Number One Fifth Avenue, and was a regular performer in revues at New York's elegant Upstairs At The Downstairs. He can be heard on many Upstairs recordings. Young is also a featured singer on Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles albums of Rodgers & Hart and Jerome Kern. Cy performed with the famous childrens' troupe, The Paper Bag Players, for six months in NYC. Next came a tour with the national company of Once Upon a Mattress playing the Prince to Buster Keaton's king, followed by a tour of On A Clear Day starring Howard Keel and Karen Black. Mr. Young stopped the show each night with a spectacular rendition of Wait 'Til We're Sixty Five. Called to London by Diversions director Steven Vinaver, he starred as Bobby in Sandy Wilson's Divorce Me Darling at the Globe Theatre and can be heard on the original cast album. He was featured in Bagley's "Cole Porter" Review in San Francisco. Recently Cy performed in the Oklahoma City Lyric Theater's productions of The Music Man (Mayor Schinn) and George M (Jerry). Cy also played Will’s dad in the Candlewood Long Island production of The Will Roger’s Follies.
Young has had three plays published by Samuel French and three musicals produced in NYC Off-Broadway. Other writing credits: over 40 radio plays for Heartbeat Theatre in Los Angles; animation scripts for Rankin Bass' Silverhawks TV series (The Blue Door, Sneak Attacks 1 & 2); material for Mort Lachman (Gimme A Break), and R.J. Wagner (Hart-To-Hart). He was head writer for Ralph Andrews at Columbia TV for a game show pilot (Show Me). His screenplay, The Kings of October, was optioned by John Wayne's Batjak Productions. Young was a segment producer on F. Lee Bailey's Lie Detector television series. Cy's song, Draw Me A Circle, is on the Streisand Third Album and was used to open one of her early TV specials. Young's short story, The Schitzel Connection, is available on Twit Publishing, Winter/Spring 2011 edition, an internet publishing org. Cy's CD, Aesop's Fables, can be purchased at Midwest Tapes where he is a vendor. His musical, The Childrens' Crusade, has been produced at Oklahoma City University, a 20-minute version of the mega-musical was presented with Conductor Robert Radmer’s Balcones Community Orchestra in January, 2016, and Cy is currently working on a production of the musical in Austin.
Mr. Young is a member of Actor's Equity Association, Screen Actor's Guild, and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He holds an Active Membership in The Dramatists Guild as well as The Author's League of America and is a graduate of Northwestern University.
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Onions
by Cy Young, Jr
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Words: 56,680.
Language:
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Published: November 7, 2018
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Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Drama
Charles Wesley Onions who, under the tutelage of senior retired circus performer Sandrine Fuller, learns to love books, to have a life-goal, and how to play the trumpet. A tragic event propels Onions to rise above the chaos and reach a high point he never dreamed he could reach.