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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Jonathan Cake
By Ernio Hernandez
13 Nov 2007
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Jonathan Cake
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Jonathan Cake — who co-stars in the current Broadway revival of Cymbeline — 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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Jonathan James Cake
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Hometown:
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Worthing, England
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Zodiac sign:
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Virgo
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Audition song:
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I once sang "All Shook Up" for the man who directed Les Miz. He seemed confused.
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Special skills:
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I know the words to a lot of pop songs. Is that a skill?
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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It sounds terrible, but somehow I never seem to see Broadway shows. I did see Spring Awakening.
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If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?
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Lee J. Cobb in Death of a Salesman.
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Favorite show tune:
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It's in Company... the song by the three men - sweet, sad... Ah! [Current co-star] Michael Cerveris just told me it's "Sorry Grateful."
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MAC or PC?
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MAC, but barely
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Most played song on your iPod:
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"Suzanne," Nina Simone version.
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One CD you couldn't live without:
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"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" by Arctic Monkeys
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Last book you read:
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"Happiest Baby on the Block" [by Harvey Karp]
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Must-see TV show:
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"Sky Sports News," Channel 124, only between 7 and 8 PM nightly, You wont find Rugby and Cricket anywhere else.
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Last good movie you saw:
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Finally saw "My Dinner With Andre" the other night.
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Favorite board game:
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Trivial Pursuit
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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Morrissey, Stephen Dillane, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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"Top Chef"
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First stage kiss:
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In Scarborough in 1993, directed by Alan Ayckbourn in a play about rowing. I kissed Saskia Wickham, bleeding profusely from a hand gashed by an oar.
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How you got your Equity card:
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Playing an innkeeper with a rapidly unsticking mustache in She Stoops to Conquer in Harrogate, England, 1992 (British Equity); Medea (American Equity).
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Worst onstage mishap:
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Performing The Mill on the Floss to a baying schools matinee in Madras India. I had to leave the stage during a frenzied and erotically charged waltz to be sick into a fire bucket.
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Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition?
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Never been on, but I have slept with one of the detectives.
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Worst costume ever:
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As a lanky 17 year old I played Falstaff, padded so much I couldn't get through the door to backstage and with a wig that looked like a sheep had expired on my head.
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Cats or dogs?
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Isn't that like asking "women or men"?
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Favorite cereal:
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I like Puffins.
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Who would play you in the movie?
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Cate Blanchett
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Worst job you ever had:
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Working for a trucking company in East London with a man who insisted I call him "Mad Dog."
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TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed:
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I lived in Rome for a summer filming "Empire" for ABC. The vita was never dolcier.
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