PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Michael Boatman
By Ernio Hernandez
30 Jun 2009
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| Michael Boatman |
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.
| Full given name: | Michael Eugene Patrick Boatman. (Yup...Eugene) |
| Hometown: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Audition monologue: | My favorite is Oberon's first monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Special skills: | Running unsupported over large swaths of cabbage. Bouncing off the walls of my mind. |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | Sweeney Todd, with Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me |
| Favorite show tune: | "Lothlorien," from the British stage production of The Lord of the Rings. |
| MAC or PC? | PC...I love my viruses. |
| Most played song on your iPod: | 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. |
| Web obsession: | Twitter. For God's sake, stop me from Tweeting! |
| Last book you read: | "The Graveyard Book," by Neil Gaiman |
| Must-see TV show: | "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. |
| Favorite card game: | Spider Solitaire...when the viruses haven't logjammed my laptop. |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Ella Fitzgerald, James Taylor, James Brown |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | "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!) |
| First stage kiss: | Do casting directors count? Sorry...it's all a blur. |
| Favorite pre-show meal: | I eat during the show: I chew as much scenery as I can. |
| How you got your Equity card: | My first Off-Broadway show was called Tiny Mommy, at Playwrights Horizons, back in the late 1860s. |
| Worst onstage mishap: | 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. |
| Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? | 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. |
| Pets' names: | "Breakfast," "Lunch" and "Dinner" |
| Favorite junk food: | See above. |
| Who would play you in the movie? | The actor hasn't been born who could do the role justice. |
| Worst job you ever had: | Telemarketer for a newspaper no one wanted. I worked one shift then ran all the way home and hid until the demons stopped laughing. |
| TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: | I loved my time on "Spin City," laughed hard every single day. |
| Leading lady/man role you've been dying to play | Iago in Othello...tricky right? |
