Gordy Pratt ♦ Musical Comedy
Little Bit About Gordy Pratt
An accomplished writer and seasoned performer, Gordy has been in the entertainment business since age 12. He does
hundreds of shows a year for corporations, associations and other special events. He has appeared on ABC's Good Morning
America and numerous Public Television shows and has opened for Kenny Chesney, Michael Martin Murphy, Williams & Ree
(The Indian & the White Guy), the Beach Boys, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many more.
"As an only child I grew up entertaining myself. My family moved around a lot and I learned the quickest way to make friends was to make people laugh. With you or at you, it didn't matter. I was always a foot taller that anybody else so I was kind of a conversation piece. I got used to people laughing at me. My second grade room was a sea of little desks with this huge desk in the back... mine. I was very lucky at the age of 12 to start spending summers in a theatre company in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and I was hooked: on the entertainment business and the Hills".
I got hooked on the classical guitar when I was 19. A friend said, "Listen to this guitar music." And I said, "Hey, those guys are great." And he said, "That's one guy." That was the beginning of "The ONE GUY". I studied guitar at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, the Royal College of Music in London and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In San Francisco I got into ancient music too, played all sorts of weird old instruments. I even played oud with a fantastic group that only played medieval Spanish music.
I spent 5 years in New York City. 18 months of that was on tour with Pirates of Penzance starring Jim Belushi and Peter Noon and the world tour of "Ain't Misbehavin" in Europe. I did everything from sound to selling merchandise to stage managing.
"I came back to the Black Hills to raise a couple of great kids and ended up starting a little production company in Deadwood. in the Black Hills. One summer we did 42 shows a week plus barking people into the shows. By August we were ready to kill each other and the tourists!"
I started working solo in 1994 and the "ONE GUY" was born: Gordy Pratt, the original Fabulous ONE GUY. "You know, that one guy!?!" It's a great job. It's a great feeling to make people laugh. I'm very lucky to be able to make a great living doing something I enjoy doing.. DRIVINIG!!!!