Seventeen years later, Dwayne was lugging his 5-year-old son to rehearsals all over Denver when the legendary director Buddy Butler cast Dwayne to play a sports announcer in the Shwayder Theatre’s baseball musical “Damn Yankees.” This was a package deal: Butler wanted the 5-year-old to play one of the fan kids, and Orion was happy to oblige. Dwayne Carrington, who turns 68 on April 13, grew up about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City in a Black community mostly made up of former military and railroad workers.
