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| CBS This Morning
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 Paula Zahn: Michael Cerveris heads the cast as Tommy. <<Clip from Tommy>>  The cast album of Tommy hits the record stores tomorrow and Michael Cerveris is here to sing for us this morning. Good Morning and welcome! Michael: Good morning. Paula: Congratulations! Michael: Thanks. Paula: I was so drained when I saw it. I don't know how you can do that six nights a week.  Michael: Yeah, I mean it's exhausting.  I never know how exhausting it is until I sit down in the dressing room and soaked to the skin with sweat and then I realize how tired I am.  But I get so pumped up by the audience that I'm awake then for the next three hours. Paula: Hey- we were equally soaked. I've never seen an audience work like that. Michael: Yeah  Paula: Four standing ovations! People were screaming all through the show.... Michael: Yeah that's a pretty standard thing. Paula: Do you get a buzz from that? Michael: Yeah - the audience vary from night to night you know but it's always a response like that. That kind of enthusiasm. That kind of immediate uncensored response. Paula: Now that you've the comfort of these awards resting on your shoulders - this does give you some comfort...  Michael: I'm taking complete breaths onstage again which is really great. Paula: You are. But was it pretty scary walking onto that Broadway stage for the first time? Were you intimidated?  Michael: Yeah, I was. But it was really so much of a process that had begun a year earlier at La Jolla - the La Jolla Playhouse that.. Paula: Which is where you started testing it..  Michael: Yeah where we started. But I had always been made to feel by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff, the director that I wasn't competing with anybody else- I wasn't trying to erase images of Roger or anybody That I was just going to find my way to be this strange boy. And that's what I tried to focus on. Paula: Well you certainly have found your way in my judgement. Thank you so much for coming. And what are we going to listen to this morning?  Michael: A little "Pinball Wizard" Paula: Great! Hottest number in the show. Good luck! Michael: Thanks! Next  |
