Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#0Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:09pm
and he ain't singing "Sherie, Sherie, Baby"
He's singing Sondheim.
as of tonight 7/23/ 06
Michael has not missed a show!
My hat is off to You!
Updated On: 7/24/06 at 09:09 PM
#1re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:19pm
He is the man!
Very few in the cast have missed shows. No matter who is out, it must be like losing an arm.
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#2re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:23pm
Michael, that's really impressive!
Wow. That's pretty awesome and shows some great dedication. But you know, he doesn't need any time off anyways seeing as his backup singers sing all his Sweeney vocals for him 
:P
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#3re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:11pmMichael is the man...congrats to him!
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
lucyjessie
Swing Joined: 5/22/06
#4re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:21pmWhat makes it even more impressive is that he seems to always be doing a benefit orperformance on Mondays, instead of taking his one day off.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#5re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:35pm
Not to mention all those hot women!
You Go Guy!
Isabella2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/6/05
#6re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:37pmwow. THAT is a grand example of dedication. He really deserves all the support he can get. Let's hope he doesn't get sick.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:44pm
CurtainPull, I like Jersey Boys!
But I love Sondheim more.
Hooray Michael!
#8re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 10:48pmNot to mention, Michael is truly fantastic in the role...and it's been what--nine, ten months?
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#9re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:08pmYay Michael! The cast is very dedicated. When they did Company in Cinci, they didn't even cast understudies. Doyle is good about getting people to be dedicated to the shows.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:30pmIf that is true, Doyle needs to be the sole director of every Broadway production from here on out. (kidding)
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#11re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:47pm
Well maybe some directors ask about Actor's attendance but Most don't.
Look at Wedding Singer. and Hot Feet
Except for Lynch the actors miss a lot.
Out of Town try-outs must have some understudies,
it is an Equity Rule,
#12re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:49pm
Sometime not casting understudies is also a financial issue, as opposed to one about forcing or drawing out committment.
And, as always, talking about professional issues must also be about personal sexual ones in typical, crass, CurtainPullDowner thread fashion.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#13re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:58pm
Thanks
Luvtheemcee
I'm glad somebody get's me
#14re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:59pm
You bet. 
#15re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:01amEdit: Stupid double posts!
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Updated On: 7/24/06 at 12:01 AM
#16re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:01amYay for Michael! He's the most dedicated Demon Barber on Broadway. :)
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
pandajen14
Stand-by Joined: 3/22/06
#17re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:09amGood on ya, Michael!!!! He's brilliant and it's great to see that kind of dedication on Broadway.
"Writing should be easy, like a monkey driving a speedboat..." -[title of show]
"I'm tired of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and meet up with them later." -Mitch Hedberg
alwy15
Stand-by Joined: 4/26/04
#18re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:50ami'm not certain i understand praising perfect attendance records. because people get sick. and so i congratulate michael cerveris on ONE thing. he has a WONDERFUL immune system! congratulations to michael cerveris's immune system which has fought airborne and digestive bacteria for months now.
#19re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 2:23amAmen, alwy15 sista!
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#20re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:51amThis doesn't surprise me. I caught the show a second time a few weeks ago at a Wedenesday matinee. In the pouring rain Michael came out to greet the fans, take pictures, and sign autographs! What a great guy!
#21re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 9:41am
Because alwy15, attendance does not only consist of being sick. Many Broadway performers miss shows because of other engagements. Michael is either in low enough demand (I have my doubts) or so dedicated to the show that he makes sure to make it every night and matinee.
Anyone ever read A Year With The Producers, when Jeffrey Denman cites Matthew Broderick as chartering a helicopter to get out of bad traffic to get him to the theatre on time? Priceless!
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
Viewaskiew
Swing Joined: 7/23/06
#22re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:17am
100% attendance. Not too shabby.
Glad his lothario ways haven't slowed him down.
#23re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:29am
alwy15 - I work at my local middle school doing the records in guidance that include the attendance records for the year. Some peak-health hormonals, teachers, secretaries, and janitors can't withstand 180 schooldays, including when they have off for every weekend, national and board-of-ed-scheduled holiday, Jewish holiday in our WASP area, and random snowday.
Props to Michael for handling a schedule under which most people would snap and go running for their mommies!
alwy15
Stand-by Joined: 4/26/04
#24re: Michael Cerveris 100% Attendance
Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:44ami understand all of the above. but an attendance record is not proof of dedication, that is an assumption. it is only proof that he has the chops to perform well frequently. and that's because his immune system rocks. i don't see much cause for celebration. if michael cerveris got mononucleosis, would he be less dedicated?
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