EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
#2EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:16pm
Updated On: 8/8/11 at 01:16 PM
Gothampc
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#2EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:17pmCan they lose their Che?
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#3EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:21pmAMAZING casting!!
#4EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:27pm
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH he's going to be sensational!
12 year old sweeney todd fan girl is coming out right now.
#5EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:28pmCertainly not who I was expecting but I'm very excited!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#6EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:28pmGlad to see him back.
#7EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:30pmI do like Cerveris, but living in Chicago, I got kind of burned out on him appearing in all the Sondheim Ravinia concerts.
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#8EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:37pmDoes anyone else find this bizarre casting? Or is it just me? Yuck.
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#9EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:39pm
Love this casting- but I must need to pay better attention to these news pieces- I didn't know this was playing the Marquis Theatre- when did they announce that?
I would be happy to have you-know-who withdraw as Che still... I just can't see it. But- you never know!
#10EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:41pmI believe this is the first time they've officially announced The Marquis. It was long rumored to either be going into The Marquis or The Palace.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#11EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:48pmI. Am. Going.
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#12EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:51pmExcellent choice!
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#13EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:54pm
Wow. I think this is BRILLIANT. I don't think I would have been able to guess this in a million years.
Now I'm even MORE excited!!!
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#14EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:55pm
hmmm...interesting...
Mr. Cerveris is rather short, which I think will be a bit unsightly, but he is a wonderful actor. I think he'll do very well.
I'll take the wind and soar.
#15EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:58pmInteresting and unexpected. I actually like EVITA, so I would go anyway, but this gives me all the more reason to go.
AwesomeDanny
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#16EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:00pmmatineeidol, Elena Roger isn't very tall either, so I think it'll look fine.
#18EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:08pm
Thanks Danny!
Yes! I am aware Elena Roger is VERY petite, but I would prefer Michael Cerveris to be a larger build in general. I LOVED how large Phil Quast was next to Roger in London. Made it even more intersting that this incredible woman could have such power over Peron.
I think Cerveris will do well though!
I'll take the wind and soar.
#19EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:11pmPerhaps I am alone in this, but to me Quast's height (6'5) next to Roger (5'1) in London was distracting and provided for a lot of awkward physical moments between the two of them. I think Cerveris will be a good match for Roger in both height and temperament. I look forward to seeing them.
#20EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:12pmI'll drink to that.
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#21EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:20pm
"UGH!! Juan should be played by a man, not a would-be fairy."
I don't know if Cerveris is gay or not, but he's typically very masculine onstage. I don't get why you needed to say something like that.
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#22EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:26pmHmm...this is a fascinating casting choice. Looking forward to it.
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#23EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:30pm
Yay! And a theatre confirmed too 
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#24EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:34pmSuch an interesting choice! He'll be great.
#25EVITA Finds Its Juan Peron for Broadway - Michael Cerveris!
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:36pm
Considering all the hysteria on BWW over the suggestion that a "too dark" actress play Evita, the height complaint is laughable.
I wouldn't call this "towering":
Juan Peron sure as hell wasn't 6'5" unless Eva was 6 feet tall. Either casting is based on real life, or it isn't. Make up your minds instead of picking and choosing based on personal biases.
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