Don McKay (January 28, 1925 – December 26, 2018) was an American actor, dancer and singer.
McKay was born in Buttermilk Hill, West Virginia.
He played in musicals like ''
Make a Wish'' and ''
Top Banana'' in 1951, and ''
West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...
''
in 1958 and 1964, as well as ''
Show Boat
''Show Boat'' is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock worke ...
'' in 1959 and ''
On the Town'' in 1963.
McKay began teaching voice in Connecticut in 1957 and acting in regional theater there.
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1925 births
2018 deaths
Actors from Clarksburg, West Virginia
People from Manhattan
American male actors
20th-century American male actors
20th-century American singers
American male dancers
20th-century American dancers
20th-century American male singers
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