All those years of Encore dance lessons and juggling marching band with football paid off big time for Bill Davis Tuesday night as his fourth Young Americans tour ended on the stage he last trod in “Bye Bye Birdie.”

“It couldn’t be any more perfect,” he said during the two-hour run-through at Dowagiac Middle School Performing Arts Center.

For Davis, a 2008 Union High School graduate who was in the chorus of a couple hundred students who put on a show almost overnight with the direction of the 50 touring professionals the last time the troupe hit town three Novembers ago in 2007, his emotions see-sawed between playing his hometown and it being the end of the journey with these performers.

Not only did Young Americans make him a California resident, but it has taken him throughout the Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Upper Peninsula) and Canada, and across the sea to Germany, the Netherlands, Gibraltar and Russia.

He toured Europe while still in high school as an Ambassador of Music.

Young Americans gives Davis a showcase for his range of talents, from blinding dance moves in the Bee Gees’ “Staying Alive” to an extended drum solo in “The Lion King.”

The former vocalist for the local rock band Down Shift can sing, too.

With the Young Americans, he’s done summer dinner theater at Boyne Highlands in Harbor Springs in northern Michigan.

As a performer who crossed over from his turn on stage as a student to hitting the road with Niles’ Bill Brawley and the Young Americans, Davis especially appreciates the troupe’s tightly controlled chaos.

Every second is planned, even if that is not evident to their young charges.

Like others in the generation of the Dogwood Fine Arts Festival who grew up immersed in the arts, Davis confidently sees possibilities in the wider world.

“You don’t have to stay here in Dowagiac,” he said. “You can achieve anything.”

California is a nice place to visit, but long-range, Davis sees himself returning to the Midwest, perhaps Chicago, where he would own his own performing arts studio.

Before then, however, his goal is “Stomp” on Broadway.

Not only is there a fifth tour in his future, but Davis is stepping up to the next level, stage manager.

That tour also covers the Midwest, from Mattawan to Ohio and Indiana.