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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Michael Boatman
By Ernio Hernandez
01 Jul 2009
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Michael Boatman
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Michael Boatman — who co-stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway run of Tin Pan Alley Rag — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.
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Full given name:
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Michael Eugene Patrick Boatman. (Yup...Eugene)
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Hometown:
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Chicago, Illinois
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Audition monologue:
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My favorite is Oberon's first monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Special skills:
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Running unsupported over large swaths of cabbage. Bouncing off the walls of my mind.
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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Sweeney Todd, with Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury
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If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?
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Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
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Favorite show tune:
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"Lothlorien," from the British stage production of The Lord of the Rings. |
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MAC or PC?
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PC...I love my viruses.
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Most played song on your iPod:
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A Brazilian samba called "Nacao." I call it "the happiest song ever written" and defy even the most depressive cynic to remain depressed after hearing it.
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Web obsession:
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Twitter. For God's sake, stop me from Tweeting!
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Last book you read:
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"The Graveyard Book," by Neil Gaiman
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Must-see TV show:
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"I Survived..." on the Biography Channel. Horrific stories of human survival against enormous odds. Guaranteed to elicit tears, screams of horror and awe at the toughness of the human spirit.
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Favorite card game:
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Spider Solitaire...when the viruses haven't logjammed my laptop.
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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Ella Fitzgerald, James Taylor, James Brown
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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"The Revenant Road," a sizzling rollercoaster of a novel, filled with passion, drama, alcoholic superviolence, meaningless sex... and redemption. (I know because I wrote it. Available at Amazon.com!)
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First stage kiss:
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Do casting directors count? Sorry...it's all a blur.
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Favorite pre-show meal:
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I eat during the show: I chew as much scenery as I can.
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How you got your Equity card:
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My first Off-Broadway show was called Tiny Mommy, at Playwrights Horizons, back in the late 1860s.
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Worst onstage mishap:
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The time I fell through a trap door during a college production of Hair. I was Hud, dancing and singing my afro off, literally. My wig fell over my eyes, and I blundered into a wall, bounced off and dropped through the trap door...in front of an audience filled with Hell's Angels. I survived.
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Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition?
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I've appeared as Attorney Dave Seaver on "Law & Order" and on "Law & Order S.V.U." I've also recently filmed a spec pilot for a proposed spin-off I'm calling "Law & Odor: Criminal Hygiene Unit." No word yet from Dick Wolf and co., but I'm optimistic.
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Pets' names:
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"Breakfast," "Lunch" and "Dinner"
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Favorite junk food:
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See above.
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Who would play you in the movie?
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The actor hasn't been born who could do the role justice.
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Worst job you ever had:
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Telemarketer for a newspaper no one wanted. I worked one shift then ran all the way home and hid until the demons stopped laughing.
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TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed:
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I loved my time on "Spin City," laughed hard every single day.
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Leading lady/man role you've been dying to play
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Iago in Othello...tricky right?
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