PhotosMiss Antoinette's New Orleans Tour! Michael Cerveris Takes His New Tony Around The Big Easy"On my first real day off after the dizzying days of this year's Tony Awards, I headed down south to my sanctuary/home in New Orleans. Having become perhaps the first person ever to utter the phrase 'Who Dat!' on a national awards show broadcast, it seemed fitting. My new friend, Miss Antoinette (Perry, of course) was eager to make her own version of the Rainbow Tour and say howdy to my friends and neighbors and they gave her a fittingly rousing, karaoke fueled New Orleans reception."
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Miss Antoinette's New Orleans Tour! Michael Cerveris Takes His New Tony Around The Big Easy
Miss Antoinette's New Orleans Tour! Michael Cerveris Takes His New Tony Around The Big Easy
"On my first real day off after the dizzying days of this year's Tony Awards, I headed down south to my sanctuary/home in New Orleans. Having become perhaps the first person ever to utter the phrase 'Who Dat!' on a national awards show broadcast, it seemed fitting. My new friend, Miss Antoinette (Perry, of course) was eager to make her own version of the Rainbow Tour and say howdy to my friends and neighbors and they gave her a fittingly rousing, karaoke fueled New Orleans reception."
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Looking good in the morning light!
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Morning of Miss Antoinette's big day
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Getting a little nature
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Nobody puts Miss Antoinette in a corner
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On the street where you live
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A visit to my dear departed friend, Veronica Russell. Miss Antoinette would have loved Vee
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Miss Antoinette and St. Louis
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Gonna lay down my burden down by the riverside
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Miss Antoinette takes in the Mississippi River Bridge
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Now that's what I call a hood ornament!
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Miss Antoinette's audience with New Orleans' Broadway Belting Mayor Mitch Landrieu
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Stoop life, visiting absent friends
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Miss Antoinette's first snowball
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Steve Gleason and family welcome Miss Antoinette
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It was a day of prizes at the Gleason house
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Visiting Broadway's Home in New Orleans
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Multiple Off-Beat New Orleans Songwriter of the Year and Big Easy Award winner and Nine Lives composer Paul Sanchez gets to know Miss Antoinette
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Getting to know the sidewalk folk
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Our hostess, proprietress JoAnn Guidos of "Nine Lives" fame
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A visit from New Orleans Songbird Robin Barnes and Pat Casey
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AJ Allegra of NOLA Project and celebrated New Orleans author:playwright John Biguenet
I've learned that the most meaningful part of receiving public recognition is the way you become a sort of pipeline for joy and happiness to everyone you know and even people you just meet. It's the most wonderful thing to feel like you're a pebble being dropped into a big pond and watching the ripples shimmer out into the world bringing joy to everyone who feels connected to you and your good fortune.
On my first real day off after the dizzying days of this year's Tony Awards, I headed down south to my sanctuary/home in New Orleans. Having become perhaps the first person ever to utter the phrase "Who Dat!" on a national awards show broadcast, it seemed fitting. My new friend, Miss Antoinette (Perry, of course) was eager to make her own version of the Rainbow Tour and say howdy to my friends and neighbors and they gave her a fittingly rousing, karaoke fueled New Orleans reception.
From fancy meetings at City Hall to a down home gathering arranged by JoAnn Guidos (who I have played several times in Paul Sanchez and Kimberly Kaye's Nine Lives musical which I've been helping them develop) at her famous Kajun's Pub in the city's new St. Claude Avenue arts corridor, Miss Tony brought and met smiles and good wishes everywhere she went.
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