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Lary Crews ®

@larycrews.bsky.social

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79-year-old Navy Veteran kept alive by Reno VA so he can care for his college-educated cat, Stanford. Bluesky content creator. Atheist. Widower. Democrat. Retired journalist and writer with 8 published books. Actor in horror film INSIDIOUS 2011.

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They were the nicest people. We loved them both.

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Yeah!

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I was staff at Golden Apple.

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1979

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1979 cast party

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1979 Irene

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1979

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Tommy Sands was the star in Mister Roberts.
We backed him up when he sang after the show.

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Country Dinner Playhouse

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1979 Bus Stop

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Anything Goes

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1978 I played grandpa.

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1978

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1975. Dinner Theater.

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I was host of the theater and was in the plays. 1970.

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The first time I acted. 1968.

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In 1980, Golden Apple Dinner Theater's expansion brought them to Cedar Hames Advertising, and my boss assigned me as the dinner theater's promotion director. I held press nights, acted in three shows, did programs, and handled our advertising.

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The only romantic lead I ever had was Teddy Lloyd in the play The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1978. Teddy Lloyd, an art teacher, tries to reignite a past, passionate affair. But Miss Brodie retreats into the arms of meek, conventional choirmaster Gordon Lowther. Did it at Clearwater City Players.

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In 1982, St. Petersburg Golden Apple Dinner Theatre played host to our event for community theaters.
In a rented tuxedo, I hosted the Lary Awards presentation.
It was the largest gathering of community theatre people ever held on the West Coast of Florida. Two-dozen theaters were represented.

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In 1979 I played "Prez" in The Pajama Game at Footlight Theater. The musical is about a labor furor over a 7.5-cent pay raise at a pajama plant that complicates the course of true love. To promote the show the cast showed up at the Gateway Mall and pretended to rehearse singing a few songs.

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In 1978, I got the best reviews of my stage career as King Pellinore in Camelot, the musical story of King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot. The cast was so talented and awesome. We did 16 performances and had 17 cast parties, one of them on the mayor's yacht.

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In real life, I don't drink liquor, but I created a minor career playing characters who do.
I was an inebriated professor in Bus Stop, a boozy hotel owner in Rain, and I've played Mr. Whitney, the drunk in the musical comedy Anything Goes twice.

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From 1974 to 1983, I acted in productions at community theaters and dinner theaters in Tampa Bay, Florida.
One newspaper did a story about my being in 7 shows in just 14 months.
I also created an audition newsletter called The Theater Grapevine which I published in Tampa Bay from 1978 to 1998.