Michael McCarthy (singer)

Michael McCarthy was born in Turners Cross, Cork, Ireland on 5 June 1966. He studied classical piano from a young age and started to perform professional roles, such as a member of the ensemble in Rigoletto, at the Cork Opera House, from the age of 15.{{cite web | title = Michael McCarthy | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040714/http://www.profsonstage.com/artists/51525/michael_mccarthy/biography | archive-date = 4 March 2016 | url = http://www.profsonstage.com/artists/51525/michael_mccarthy/biography | publisher = Profs on Stage | access-date = 18 April 2015 }}

McCarthy studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) where he received his diploma with honours, known as the A.L.A.M. diploma (Associate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art).

He performed with the Montfort Singers in Cork and also studied then taught at the Montfort College of Performing Arts. He then received a full scholarship to Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri in the United States where he gained his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre and music.{{cite web | title = Michael McCarthy's Broadway Studios | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150418170309/http://www.mccarthybroadway.com/ | archive-date = 18 April 2015 | url = http://www.mccarthybroadway.com/ | website = mccarthybroadway.com | publisher = Michael McCarthy's Broadway Studios via Weebly | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} Parts that he performed at their summer stock theatre, the Okoboji Summer Theatre, and the college's Macklanburg Playhouse included: a soloist / ensemble member in a biographical revue of Cole Porter; Max in Cabaret; Tom in Brigadoon; Dominique in The Baker's Wife; Marco in A View from the Bridge; and Count Carl Magnus in A Little Night Music.{{cite web| title = Michael McCarthy | url = http://www.bcltd.org/actors/michael-mccarthy/ | access-date = 18 April 2015 | publisher = Burnett Crowther }}

{{See also|Michael McCarthy professional credits}}

During the 1980s, through to 1990, McCarthy performed in a number of professional productions at Cork Opera House in his native Ireland. Roles included: a member of the ensemble in Rigoletto; Patrick Dennis in Mame; Tom Trainer in No, No, Nanette; Sir Lancelot in Camelot;{{cite news| title = The Montforts – A History Steeped In Theatre (2005) | url = http://www.montfortcollege.com/yearbyyear | access-date = 18 April 2015 | work = Evening Echo }} and The Red Shadow in The Desert Song.{{cite news | last = Hassett | first = Declan | title = Encores for The Desert Song | url = http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/cultureincork/theatreincork/1990/newspapers/1990_04_03_the_desert_song.pdf | access-date = 18 April 2015 | work = Evening Echo | location = Cork, Ireland | date = April 1990 }} When he was 18 (November 1984) he was cast as Theodore "Laurie" Laurence in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women at Cork's Everyman Palace Theatre.{{cite web| title = Theatre in Cork, 1984: Little Women | url = http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/cultureincork/theatreincork/1984/littlewomen/ | access-date = 18 April 2015 | website = corkpastandpresent.ie | publisher = Cork City Council }} [http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/cultureincork/theatreincork/1984/littlewomen//1984%20Little%20Women/images/1984_little_women_everyman_theatre%20(7).JPG Image.]

He began his connection with Les Misérables in 1990, initially playing Combeferre and then the Factory Foreman and understudy to the part of Javert at the Palace Theatre in London. He took the role of Javert in his own right in the Palace Theatre in Manchester in 1992, replacing Philip Quast.{{cite AV media | people = Manchester cast: Jeff Leyton (Jean Valjean), Michael McCarthy (Javert), Richard Burman (Marius), Sarah Ryan (Cosette), Meredith Braun (Éponine), Daniel Coll (Enjolras), Tony Timberlake (Thénardier), Louise Plowright (Mdme Thénardier) | date = 20 November 1992 | title = BBC Children in Need (regional: North West | trans-title = One Day More | medium = Television | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3FGklAlfk | accessdate = 18 April 2015 | time = | location = Manchester | publisher = Richard Burman: YouTube }}{{cite web | title = Michael McCarthy | url = http://www.londonmusicalsonline.com/londonlesmis/lmperformer1.php?PerfID=mikemc | access-date = 18 April 2015 | website = londonlesmis.co.uk | publisher = London Musicals Online }}

In November 1994 McCarthy appeared in a new musical, Out of the Blue, with Meredith Braun, who had previously starred alongside him as Éponine in Les Misérables in Manchester.{{cite web | title = Out of the Blue: Cast | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150418170408/http://www.lilyrose.org/obcast.html | archive-date = 18 April 2015 | url = http://www.lilyrose.org/obcast.html | access-date = 18 April 2015 | website = lilyrose.org }} However, bad reviews forced the show to close after just 17 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London.{{cite news | last = Coveney | first = Michael | author-link = Michael Coveney | title = Theatre: Love, sex, death and a turkey | page = 84 | url = http://www.proquest.com/products-services/news-newspapers/rlp.html | access-date = 18 April 2015 | work = The Observer | date = 27 November 1997 | via = ProQuest }} The songs by composer, Shunichi Tokura, and lyricist, Paul Sand, were subsequently released by Stage Door Records in 2010.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Out of the Blue |others= Cast: Meredith Braun, Simon Burke, David Burt, Greg Ellis, Lynden Edwards, James Graeme, Paulette Ivory, Andrew Newey, Charles Shirvell, Andrew Wale |year=1994 |last1=McCarthy |first1=Michael | last2 = Tokura | first2 = Shunichi | last3 = Sand | first3 = Paul | author-link2 = Shunichi Tokura |publisher=Stage Door Records | asin = B0042FXIKS |id=Barcode: 5055122190257 | url = http://www.stagedoorrecords.com/stage9025.html }}

He then went on to part of Javert which he played in thousands of performances, mostly in London, but also at: the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Australia;{{cite news | last = Jones | first = Kenneth | title = Irish Actor Michael McCarthy Is Final Javert of Les Miz, Starting May 6 | url = http://www.playbill.com/news/article/irish-actor-michael-mccarthy-is-final-javert-of-les-miz-starting-may-6-112264 | access-date = 18 April 2015 | work = Playbill | date = 25 March 2003 }} the Point Theatre, Dublin;{{cite web | last = Jones | first = Kenneth | title = Les Misérables: Les Misérables-May 15th, 1999 Dublin | url = http://whoisthatface.weebly.com/les-miseacuterables.html | website = whoisthatface.weebly.com | publisher = Whose Is That Face in the Shadows? | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} Melbourne (cover for Roger Lemke);{{cite news | last = MATP | title = In Brief | url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/0FC9A7DF40915C39?p=AWNB | page = 17 | work = The Weekend Australian Magazine via NewsBank | date = 28 August 1998 | access-date = 18 April 2015 | quote = ROGER Lemke, who has been singing the role of Javert in the Melbourne season of Les Miserables, has to withdraw from the show for eight weeks for medical reasons. He will be replaced by Michael McCarthy, who is flying in from London and will take over the role some time next week. }} San Francisco;{{cite web | title = Review: Les Miserables 12 June 2002 (blog) | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170413100718/http://www.mspt47.com/writings/lesmis_062002.php | archive-date = 13 April 2017 | url = http://www.mspt47.com/writings/lesmis_062002.php | access-date = 18 April 2015 | website = mspt47.com | date = 22 June 2002 }} Shanghai, China;{{cite news | last = Jones | first = Kenneth | title = Cosette in China: Shanghai Welcomes Les Miserables June 22 – July 7 | url = http://www.playbill.com/news/article/cosette-in-china-shanghai-welcomes-les-miserables-june-22-july-7-106655 | access-date = 18 April 2015 | work = Playbill | date = 22 June 2002 }} Seoul, South Korea{{cite news | title = 'Les Mis' ready for China | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2057483.stm | access-date = 18 April 2015 | work = BBC News | date = 21 June 2002 }} and he finished the show's run at the Imperial Theatre, New York for Terrence Mann.

He revived his role as the Factory Foreman for the Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert, the tenth anniversary concert of Les Misérables in 1995.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Les Misérables – 10th Anniversary – The Dreamcast in Concert DVD |others= Cast: Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Ruthie Henshall, Jenny Galloway, Alun Armstrong, Lea Salonga, Michael Ball, Michael Maguire, Judy Kuhn, Anthony Crivello, Adam Searles, Hannah Chick, Paul Monaghan, Matthew Cammelle, Rob Guest |year=1995 |last1=McCarthy |first1=Michael | last2 = Schönberg | first2 = Claude-Michel (Composer) | last3 = Boublil | first3 = Alain (Lyricist) | author-link2 = Claude-Michel Schönberg | author-link3 = Alain Boublil |publisher=BBC Home Entertainment |asin=B00110K62U | id = Barcode: 5014138067946 | url = http://castalbums.org/recordings/Les-Miserables-The-Dream-Cast-in-Concert-1995-10th-Anniversary-Concert-Cast/6499 }} He also played the role of Javert in concert productions: in 1997, at the Chelmsford Festival; in 2002 at the Globe Arena, Stockholm;{{cite web | last = Gorman | first = Mike | title = Les Miserables | website = mdgorman.com |publisher= Civil War Richmond | url = http://mdgorman.com/Trades/List/New%20Trading%20List/simsel.htm | access-date = 18 April 2015 }}{{cite web | title = Vi är Skandinaviens största evenemangsområde:4 arenor, 1 turistattraktion, 300 evenemang och 2 miljoner besökare varje år | trans-title = We are Scandinavia's biggest event area: 4 arenas, one tourist attraction, 300 events and 2 million visitors each year | website = globearenas.se |publisher= Globe Arena | url = http://www.globearenas.se/om-oss | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} and in 2004 for the Queen and her guests at Windsor Castle.{{cite web|last=Thuesen |first=Gitte |title=Foolishness can happen in the woods... (blog) |url=http://thefleetstreetvicomte.tumblr.com/post/100685047445/thefleetstreetvicomte-les-miserables-royal |website=thefleetstreetvicomte.tumblr.com |publisher=Tumblr |access-date=18 April 2015 |date=December 2014 }}

Other concert performances as Javert include Guernsey{{cite web|title=Cavill and McCarthy lead Guernsey concert |url=http://www.londonmusicalsonline.com/londonlesmis/lmnews1.php?ID=76 |date=17 July 2008 |access-date=5 May 2015 |website=londonlesmis.co.uk |publisher=London Musicals Online |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150408224827/http://www.londonmusicalsonline.com/londonlesmis/lmnews1.php?ID=76 |archive-date=8 April 2015 }} and Dublin,{{cite web | title = Events: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber | website = rte.ie | publisher = RTÉ Concert Orchestra | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150418171105/http://www.rte.ie/orchestras//2008/0918/rteco.html | archive-date = 18 April 2015 | url = http://www.rte.ie/orchestras//2008/0918/rteco.html | date = 2008 | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} both in 2008.

As well as Les Misérables, McCarthy has appeared as Thomas Inkle in a 1997 revival of Inkle and Yarico for the Holder's season, Barbados.{{cite web | title = Barbados – Holders Season- Inkle and Yarico | url = http://www.barbados.org/inkle.htm | access-date = 18 April 2015 | website = barbados.org }} There were further performances in Washington, Edinburgh,{{cite book | last = Howell | first = Mark A. | chapter = Sources consulted | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=avocBgAAQBAJ | editor-last = Howell | editor-first = Mark A. | title = Imaginative genius: Spectators on stage at Shakespeare's playhouses & Bristol's Old Vic | date = 19 December 2014 | publisher = Google e-book | isbn = 9780992643713 | quote = McConnel, James. Rev. of Inkle and Yarico. Holder's Season, Barbados, Crampton Theatre, Washington DC and Edinburgh Festival. }} and Berlin.{{cite web | title = Michael McCarthy: Biography | url = http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelMcCarthy1 | access-date = 18 April 2015 | website = cdbaby.com }}

He also starred as the Phantom in Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera (2000);{{cite web | title = Alumni list | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150419124620/http://www.kenhillsphantomoftheopera.co.uk/alumni.php | archive-date = 19 April 2015 | url = http://www.kenhillsphantomoftheopera.co.uk/alumni.php | publisher = Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} as Ivan Molokov in Chess at the Oslo Spektrum, Norway (2006);{{cite web | title = Chess the musical | url = https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oslospektrum.no%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D335891&edit-text=&act=url | access-date = 18 April 2015 | publisher = Oslo Spektrum }} and Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with The Göteborg Opera, in Sweden.

Further concert performances include: a centenary celebration of Ira Gershwin's birth, Who Could Ask for Anything More?;{{cite news | last = Staff writer | title = Who Could Ask for Anything More? BBC Two England, 31 December 1996 19.15 | url = http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e49c018fdd9b403693366e71fc4f3de9 | work = Radio Times | issue = 3804 | page = 136 | date = 31 December 1996 | access-date = 18 April 2015}}{{cite web | last = Staff writer | title = Who Could Ask for Anything More? A Celebration of Ira Gershwin (1997) | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180306022854/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/469876/Ira-Gershwin-A-Centenary-Celebration-Who-Could-Ask-For-Anything-More-/ | archive-date = 6 March 2018 | url = https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/469876/ira-gershwin-a-centenary-celebration-who-could-ask-for-anything-more | publisher = Turner Classic Movies (TCM) | url-status = live | access-date = 5 March 2018}} a concert performance of Inkle and Yarico at the Edinburgh Festival, which was transmitted live to the Royal Opera House in London;{{cite web | last = Andrews | first = Richard | title = Backstage Whispers overheard by Richard Andrews | url = http://www.theatrenet.com/archive/130899.php | date = 13 August 1999 | access-date = 18 April 2015 | website = theatrenet.com }} A Night of 100 Stars at the London Palladium;{{cite web |title=Archive listings for A Night of 100 Stars | website = uktw.co.uk |publisher= UK Theatre Web | url = http://www.uktw.co.uk/archive/Variety/A-Night-of-100-Stars/S0778103992/#ixzz3XQ1qiEbD | date = 22 April 2001 | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} and Opera In The Park in the grounds of Temple Newsam, West Yorkshire, with the orchestra of Opera North, Lesley Garrett and Ruthie Henshall.{{cite news |last= Hutchinson |first= Andrew | title =Come dance with me... | url = https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/come-dance-with-me-1-2267631 | work = Yorkshire Evening Post | date = 14 July 2004 | access-date = 25 October 2018}}{{Cite AV media notes |title=Lesley Garrett – Music from the Movies |year=2004 |last1=McCarthy |first1=Michael | last2 = Garrett | first2 = Lesley | last3 = Henshall | first3 = Ruthie | author-link2 = Lesley Garrett | author-link3 = Ruthie Henshall |publisher= Eagle Rock Entertainment | asin = B000HN328M |id=Barcode: 5036369804497 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150418171657/http://www.eagle-rock.com/product/music-from-the-movies/ | archive-date = 18 April 2015 |url-status=usurped | url = http://www.eagle-rock.com/product/music-from-the-movies/#.VS265L-ME7A }}

He has played the part of Sky Masterson in a concert performance of Guys and Dolls with the Key West Pops Orchestra, Key West in Florida,{{cite news | title = Pops announces 2007–08 season | url = http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00090513/00033/58j | date = 2 June 2007 | work = Florida Keys Keynoter, L'Attitudes: Keys Arts and Entertainment | page = 6 | access-date = 18 April 2015 | publisher = University of Florida Digital Collections }} and covered for Bryn Terfel at Terfel's Faenol Festival in Gwynedd, North Wales.{{cite news |title='I'm hooked on Bryn... I even named my dog after him' | work = North Wales Daily Post |publisher= Trinity Mirror | url = http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/im-hooked-bryn-even-named-2946678 | date = 28 August 2001 | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} He has also joined Michael Ball in his concert show The Musicals on a Summer's Eve on a number of occasions.{{cite web | title = Michael Ball in Musicals on a Summer's Eve – 8th August | url = http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Leeds/Sandbeck-Park/Michael-Ball-in-Musicals-on-a-Summers-Eve---8th-August/13348/ | website = skiddle.com | publisher = Skiddle Ltd. | access-date = 18 April 2015 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150418171503/http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Leeds/Sandbeck-Park/Michael-Ball-in-Musicals-on-a-Summers-Eve---8th-August/13348/ | archive-date = 18 April 2015 | df = dmy-all }}{{cite web | title = Michael Ball in Musicals on a Summer's Eve - 22nd August | url = http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Salisbury/Wilton-House,-Salisbury/Michael-Ball-in-Musicals-on-a-Summers-Eve-22nd-Aug/13352/| website = skiddle.com | publisher = Skiddle Ltd. | access-date = 18 April 2015 }}

McCarthy has recorded three solo albums of covers: Broadway (1994);{{Cite AV media notes |title=Broadway |year=1994 |first=Michael |last=McCarthy |publisher=CD Baby |id=Barcode: 5019148626312 | asin = B009Y8HO8A | url = http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelmccarthy13 }} Living for the Moment (2000);{{Cite AV media notes |title=Living for the Moment |year=2000 |first=Michael |last=McCarthy |publisher=CD Baby | asin = B00E3TOSOS |id=Barcode: 5019148626329 | url = http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelmccarthy12 }} and You're Still You (2012).{{Cite AV media notes |title=You're Still You |year=2012 |first=Michael |last=McCarthy |publisher=CD Baby | asin = B00B0LKTZE |id=Barcode: 700261957586 | url = http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelmccarthy1 }} He has also featured in recordings of musicals: Out of the Blue, as Dr. Akizuki (1994); It's Just The Beginning: The Songs of Charles Miller & Kevin Hammonds, singing Sail Me There from their musical Hope (2010);{{Cite AV media notes |title=It's Just The Beginning: The Songs of Charles Miller & Kevin Hammonds |others= Richard Reynard, Pia Douwes, Louise Plowright, Cassidy Janson, Valerie Cutko, Ashleigh Fleming, Charlotte Page, Mark Evans, Jodie Jacobs, Donna Hines, Shona White, Emma Odell, Hannah Lindo, Julie Atherton, Paul Spicer, Marc Joseph, Helena Blackman, Alan Winner, Caroline O'Connor, Fenton Gray, Brenda Edwards, Emma Hatton, Adam Bayjou, Louise Willoughby, Christopher Bartlett, Drew Millar, Greg Davidson, Sophie Isaacs |year=2010 |last1=McCarthy |first1=Michael | last2 = Miller | first2 = Charles | last3 = Hammonds | first3 = Kevin | publisher = MaKiNG Records | asin = B004B9NK5S |id=Barcode: 609722866477 | url = https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/itsjustthebeginning/from/tblink }}{{cite AV media | people= Michael McCarthy, Cassidy Janson, Charlotte Page, Valerie Cutko, Ashley Fleming | date= 18 October 2010 |accessdate= 18 April 2015 | title= Songs from "HOPE" by Charles Miller & Kevin Hammonds | medium= YouTube | publisher= Fenton Gray | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhGw5EWFtCA }} and a concept CD of a musical version of Dracula by Gareth Evans and Christopher J. Orton,{{Cite AV media notes |title=Dracula – Original London Cast |others= Cast: Stephanie Benavente, Robert Fardell, Kit Orton, Alison Guill, John Barr, Christian Jon Billett, Alex Sangster, Steven Sparling, Deborah Crowe, Stephanie Evans, Claire Falconer, Ian Lynn, Christopher Orton, Anna-Lee Robertson |year=2006 |last1=McCarthy |first1=Michael | last2 = Evans | first2 = Gareth (Lyricist) | last3 = Orton | first3 = Christopher J. (Composer) |publisher=CD Baby for Sang de Vie Productions Ltd. | asin= B000T5MX9W |id=Barcode: 5026107043301 | url = http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/draculamusical }} which features McCarthy as Dracula and was accompanied by the release of a music video of one of the tracks, Within My World.

Some of his concert performances have been broadcast and released on DVD, such as: Who Could Ask for Anything More? on BBC Radio 2;{{cite web | title = Who Could Ask for Anything More (DVD details) | url = http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7ff38e08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130307070721/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7ff38e08 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 7 March 2013 | website = explore.bfi.org.uk | publisher = British Film Institute | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert; Inkle and Yarico, documentary filmed at the Holder's Festival, Barbados; and Lesley Garrett – Music from the Movies taken from the Opera In The Park concert, broadcast on BBC Two on Christmas Day 2004.{{Cite web |title=Lesley Garrett – Music from the Movies |year=2004 |last1=McCarthy |first1=Michael | last2 = Garrett | first2 = Lesley | last3 = Henshall | first3 = Ruthie | author-link2 = Lesley Garrett | author-link3 = Ruthie Henshall |publisher= BBC Two |access-date= 18 April 2015 | url = http://ukchristmastv.weebly.com/bbc-2004.html }}

Other broadcast work includes: the role of The Gypsy King in The 10th Kingdom; the role of Second Priest in a TV film adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar for PBS's series Great Performances,{{cite AV media | people= Frederick B. Owens (Caiaphas), Michael Shaeffer (Annas), Peter Gallagher (First Priest), Michael McCarthy (Second Priest), Philip Cox (Third Priest) | date= 21 November 2008 |accessdate= 18 April 2015 | title= This Jesus Must Die | medium= YouTube | publisher= OfficialRUG | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU7htB3cyo4 }} which was also released as a DVD;{{Cite AV media notes |title=Jesus Christ Superstar |others=Cast: Glenn Carter, Jerome Pradon, Renée Castle, Fred Johanson, Rik Mayall, Frederick B. Owens, Michael Shaeffer, Tony Vincent, Cavin Cornwall, Peter Gallagher, Philip Cox, Matthew Cross, Kevin Curtin, Paul Vickers |year=2000 |first=Michael |last=McCarthy |publisher=Universal Studios |asin=B000056NX5 |url=https://www.uphe.com/movies/jesus-christ-superstar-musical}} and he sang Summertime, Nature Boy and If Ever I Would Leave You on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night, presented by Ken Bruce.{{Cite web |title=Friday Night Is Music Night |year=2010 |last1=McCarthy |first1=Michael | last2 = Bruce | first2 = Ken (presenter) | author-link2 = Ken Bruce |publisher= BBC Radio 2 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qsw8w |access-date= 18 April 2015 }}

As well as continuing to perform McCarthy is the Executive Producer for the Harlequin Performing Arts Academy, at the Buccament Bay Resort, Kingstown in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.{{cite web | title = Buccament Bay Resort News: Kate Gillespie, Thomas De Keyser, Michael McCarthy confirmed for Performing Arts Academy | url = https://harlequinhotelsandresorts.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/gillespie-keyser-mccarthy-confirmed-performing-arts/ | website = harlequinhotelsandresorts.wordpress.com | publisher = WordPress | access-date = 10 October 2021 | date = 20 January 2012 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211010125906/https://harlequinhotelsandresorts.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/gillespie-keyser-mccarthy-confirmed-performing-arts/ | archive-date = 10 October 2021 | df = dmy-all }} He also runs the Performing Arts Summer School at Cork School of Music,{{cite web | title = Performing Arts Summer School: at the Cork School of Music | url = http://www.performingartsireland.com/ | website = performingartsireland.com | publisher = Performing Arts Summer School Ireland via Weebly | access-date = 18 April 2015 }} is the guest musical director at Shorecrest Preparatory School, St. Petersburg, Florida,{{cite AV media | people = Charley Belcher (Presenter), Michael McCarthy (Guest), cast of Mary Poppins (Shorecrest Preparatory School) | date = 24 April 2015 | title = Mary Poppins on WTVT FOX 13 (Noon News) Tampa Charley's World | medium = Television | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lps8w9Suu9w | accessdate = 21 May 2015 | time = 12.54pm | location = Tampa, Florida | publisher = WTVT }}{{cite web | title = Shorecrest Preparatory School: Faculty & Staff Directory | url = https://www.shorecrest.org/page/contact-us?deptId=20738 | website = shorecrest.org | publisher = Shorecrest Preparatory School | access-date = 10 October 2018 }} and has his own classes in St.Petersburg, Florida.

McCarthy was a nominee for the Green Room Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role 1998.{{fact|date=April 2021}}

McCarthy has been married since October 1990.{{cite AV media | people = Denise Drysdale (interviewer), Michael McCarthy (guest) | date = July 1998 | title = Denise | medium = Television | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100414115227/http://www.sterne.u-net.com/michael/austral.htm | archive-date = 14 April 2010 | url = http://www.sterne.u-net.com/michael/austral.htm | access-date = 23 March 2016 | time = | location = Australia | publisher = Angela Pollard (website) }}{{cite news | last = Wasik-Zegel | first = Gay | title = Artist Profile: Michael McCarthy's Magical Music | url = https://northeastjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NEJMarApr2019Web2.pdf | work =. Northeast Journal | location = St Petersburg, Florida | date = March 2019 | access-date = 29 October 2021 }} McCarthy's wife, Stephanie, is a music teacher and the couple have a son, Cían,{{cite web | title = New Faces at Shorecrest | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090304125728/http://media.shorecrest.org/Archive1/EBGX081707/NewTeachers.html | archive-date = 4 March 2009 | url = http://ebytes.shorecrest.org/archives/Jan06-Jun08/EBGX081707/NewTeachers.html | website = ebytes.shorecrest.org | publisher = Shorecrest Preparatory School | date = January 2006 | access-date = 6 October 2016 }}{{cite AV media | people= Cían McCarthy | date= 22 February 2016 |accessdate= 6 October 2016 | title= "Electricity" performed by Cían M., 6th Grade | medium= Video | publisher= Shorecrest Preparatory School via YouTube | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQVVXOzL1Vo }} who has won a scholarship to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.{{cite news | last = Darrow | first = Raffi | title = Cían McCarthy performs, awarded scholarship at Broadway Star of the Future Awards| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211009022931/https://www.shorecrest.org/news-detail?pk=1290642 | archive-date = 9 October 2021| url = https://www.shorecrest.org/news-detail?pk=1290642 | work = ebytes.shorecrest.org | publisher = Shorecrest Preparatory School | date = 1 September 2021 | access-date = 10 October 2021 }} In his spare time he is Director of Church Music at the First Baptist Church, St. Petersburg, Gandy, Florida.{{cite web | title = Michael McCarthy - Director of Church Music | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200215214305/http://fbcstpete.org/about-us/meet-our-staff/mmcarthy/ | archive-date = 15 February 2020 | url = http://fbcstpete.org/about-us/meet-our-staff/mmcarthy/ | website = fbcstpete.org | publisher = St. Petersburg, Gandy, Florida| date =| access-date = 15 September 2021 }}

• {{cite AV media | people = Denise Drysdale (interviewer), Michael McCarthy (guest) | date = July 1998 | title = Denise | medium = Television | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100414115227/http://www.sterne.u-net.com/michael/austral.htm | archive-date = 14 April 2010 | url = http://www.sterne.u-net.com/michael/austral.htm | location = Australia | publisher = Angela Pollard (website) }}
• {{cite news | last = Wasik-Zegel | first = Gay | title = Artist Profile: Michael McCarthy's Magical Music | url = https://northeastjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/NEJMarApr2019Web2.pdf | work =. Northeast Journal | location = St Petersburg, Florida | date = March 2019}}

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