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Miguel Cervantes

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first: 2019-01-14
most recent: 2019-01-14
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“Yeah, yeah. My buddy opened up a car accessory store and I thought, oh, this is cool. Maybe I'll do this. And I was close to my family and we were all kind of working together.”
2019-01-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 299 - Miguel Cervantes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so that sort of was the beginning of a shift in my life as it was weird to be in the city. It was weird to sort of just go back to auditions again trying to go. I was trying to get an apartment, but we didn't know where to go. And so around November of that year, I retreated back to Dallas. Ended up in Dallas thinking maybe I'll do some theater here, maybe I'll sort of reinvigorate my career or lack thereof here in Dallas. And for six months, I was there not really doing anything.”
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“I was in the shower up in Washington Heights at 177 and getting ready to go to an audition. There was an open call for this little theater down on the east side called the York Theater and I came out of the getting ready to go down and hop on the subway. And my dad called me and he said, hey, are you, where are you? And I said, I'm up north. And he said, oh, yeah, you have to turn on the TV. And he said, some plane at the thing. And I said, what? There's a little guy in a prop plane, something. And then all of a sudden, I spent the next two hours sitting on the couch in a towel after the shower watching. And so, like.”
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“As I was fumbling around and I got a job as a restaurant and making some pretty good money there and living kind of a New York party life as a 22 year old kid September 11th came along and then sort of the city really changed. It was really a weird place to be for October and November after that and I was trying to move.”
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“Over my head, you know what I mean? But I didn't quite have the success immediately that I thought. And so I had to sort of start this grind, the grinding of the auditions and all these things that everyone else does. And I didn't know where to start. I didn't know where I was. And you ended up actually.”
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“You got out of Emerson? Yeah, as in college, I had a lot of, I got a lot of attention. I got a lot of experience at the Emerson Majestic Theater in Boston. And it was awesome. I felt like I was on top of the world there. The musical theater department was relatively small. The theater department was pretty large. But a guy named Leo Nicole there at Emerson really took me under his wing and sort of helped me develop me into a pretty accomplished performer there. So coming out of college, I just thought I was going to kick the door down in New York City and it didn't quite happen that way.”
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“When I got to New York after college, I would only go to the dance auditions. For some reason, I just thought that's going to be my inn. And I was not good enough. I just wasn't. And I tried as classes and I think I thought, I can do this, but I just never was good enough. But I just didn't go to the singer auditions. I didn't go to the, for some reason, I just thought that wasn't going to be it either. And I remember that time in my life as a 21-year-old, 21-year-old kid thinking, I don't know what I'm going to do here because I thought it was going to be.”
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“That's essentially at that point, I thought this is how I'm going to get to go to college. We didn't have any money. We didn't have, we didn't have, I was a relatively smart kid, but there was a way that we were going to be able to pay for college without getting someone to help. So they offered me money and American and Emerson gave me the same amount of money. And so I kind of flipped a coin and chose Boston. And so I went as a musical theater major into this college, but not really having a clear idea of what it was that I was the best at or should be or wanted to be the best at.”
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“Yeah, yeah. And I didn't know anything about Emerson. I was going to go to NYU or Santa Fe or I guess I had to knew a friend who went to Santa Fe or Carnegie Mellon or some of the big ones that were kind of in the, and that's why I.”
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“I wasn't sure where I was going to fit when I started this high school thing. I was like, okay, maybe I can be a dancer because clearly they need some guys who can dance. And I started that track and I saw what the guy dancers were really doing. I thought, well, maybe that's not it. And so then I enjoyed singing. I always, when I started the choir, I was like, oh, this is also very, very cool. And I think I'm pretty good at this too. But then there was this acting thing that I said, well, I guess I need to be doing that also. And so coming out of high school, they had a big college. And the folks from Emerson College and American University both showed interest in me. And so I'd sort of flipped a coin.”
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“Unbelievable. And the talent and the way that all types of people, there were hallways full of art and people and singing and playing trumpet in the middle. I was like, this is unbelievable. And so that's where I saw so many more people and not only artistic people, but the race, the race differences, the ethnic people that were black kids or Hispanic kids, there were Asian kids. It was like just every, it was awesome.”
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“Well, if I hadn't met the girl, I still would have been in the theater sort of trap. That I was doing out in Garland, I think I would have continued on there. But what happened was she said you can come as a dancer because you have to usually start that school as a freshman. She said, but guy dancers are pretty high demand and you can shake it a little bit. So come on as a dancer. And I said, okay, sure. So I went over there to high school and did this little audition jumping around. And they said, yeah, come on as a junior into the dance department. So I started as a dancer and people are like, oh, you were a dancer. I was like, okay, let's not go crazy here. I could move pretty well and started taking dance classes, but through that, I sort of met the choir director and the acting teacher and then was, you want to talk about community, you know, this school was just, and it was called Brooker T. Washington, which is also the Black High School in Dallas. And it turned into the arts magnet, but remained a predominantly black high school. So the diversity in that building was just...”
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“You know, the key and I some people have seen it. I was dancing around and I met this girl who was in one of the dancers and she said, hey, you should come to my school. And I said, what school is that? And she said, what's the arts magic at high school? And while probably in Dallas, there were a lot of kids who knew about it and wanted to go there. I had no idea. It wasn't part of my thinking. It wasn't, like I said, it wasn't.”
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“Got into high school after I started theater, I still stayed on the regular track, the public high school in Dallas, Skyline High School, big 5,000 kids at the high school, just the one down the street from my house. But I continued to do theater out in Garland, Texas. And I did a show called The King and I. And I was a dancer.”
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“Performed with? Yeah, there's a few folks that we sort of stay in touch on the, there are all these people folks are in Dallas and There's a few of the people who remain in contact, and I mean, it's funny to see them or talk to them. They've come to the city and seen Hamilton. And to remember these little 10-year, 11-year-old kids out there doing a little soft shoe. And from that comes this.”
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“And it was also the we'd performed in front of a lot of kids and I just thought that was the coolest thing ever. They bust all these schools in and we performed this show for them. And I just thought. We're all together. We're all a bunch of kids performing. And for some, I just, I loved that part. I don't know if it was because I was out in the middle and in front of people. It's never really been about that. It's more of just there was this. Connection between”
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“You know, what I got from it was not so much the, you know, like the adrenaline rush or something like I'm performing. I think what I got was. It was comfortable to be in a place with other people that we were all sort of the same type of person. We were all doing this. Kind of a weird thing together. And I never felt like an outsider or like any kind of, you know, Outcast because I was so theatrical and singing it all the time. But it was, it felt like a real community.”
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“For all these kids and for the parents, and that was the beginning. And I was part of that theater community from fifth grade or sixth grade all the way until I graduated high school.”
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“And all of us, it was a theatrical family without having any theater in the blood or in the history. So when I got there, it was, I remember watching into the woods, the PBS into the woods with Bernadette Peters as a kid. And I just thought it was super cool that people did that on stage. And so when I got to this theater, it was this little kids theater, the Garland Civic Theater. I said, oh, this is happening. This is cool. This is something that, and so it didn't ever feel awkward or, you know, it just felt like, oh, this seems like a cool thing to do also. And so I jumped right in and there was a choreographer. And it was Paula. And she was banging a stick on the ground and we had to learn how to sort of do a little soft shoot tapping. And I said, okay, you know, this is, I just did it. And, you know, we prefer.”
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“No, I never questioned it. When we would do, at Christmas, at the every Christmas Eve, we would put on this show, right? Organize a show for the family. And we're talking like 25 people at Christmas Eve. And it was some sort of play about the three wise men or three kings. And it was me and my brothers and the cousins and all we'd all have a part in Mary and Joseph would come running in with Abdal. Or she wrote a song, a show about this kid named Billy. And what did he want for Christmas? and all of this. And so we would do these performances. I should write whole shows. A whole show. There's a video of us all doing our little show and it was, it was, so it was part of what we did. It was sort of this performance thing was kind of part of my life.”
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“Just like a little house rock band in the 50s. And, you know, I think, I don't know if he played, I think he was the singer. They sang in the still of the night. That was like a big claim to fame. And so it wasn't part of our culture. It wasn't part of my family's life. You know, there wasn't pictures of my parents on stage or anyone even in our family. So it wasn't ever part of it. I wanted to be a soccer player when I was in. So did you?”
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“Up until then, I was soccer, baseball, everything that I could find my basketball, the whole thing. And it was really, you know, it wasn't even part of my thinking. My dad was in a band when he was in high school. I had pictures of him playing with his band and pretty good singer.”
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“Well, my mom was in touch with the choir director when I was in, I don't know, 11 years old, fourth grade or fifth grade, whatever that means. And she asked him, what do we do with this kid? Because I was always singing and I always jumping up in front of people. A lot of energy. A lot of energy and a lot of... Lack of, I think I got in trouble a lot because I would get up and want to be people to look at me, for better for worse. I have a son that sort of acts like that too. Jeanette. So there was a musical, I guess my mom found it in the newspaper back when people wrote the newspaper for the classifieds. and went to Garland, Texas and auditioned for this little show, this little musical, and I got a little part in the musical. So she thought.”
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“Yeah, you know, I don't, it doesn't, I don't remember or I don't have any real sort of idea of. Of what, you know, like a border, we didn't know we were in Dallas, so we were pretty far away from that, but it never felt to me that Living in Dallas that people were upset that there were a lot of Mexicans. You know, it didn't seem to me that people were like, wow, this is terrible. And so while all of a sudden is it like that? Does it really like that? I just don't think it is.”
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“You know, it's hard to understand. It really is hard to understand Coming from a childhood and a life where I like to say that I was ignorant a lot of, I was either sheltered or ignorant of any sort of racism or bigotry about that kind of thing. It just, we were all a community. And to think that around us there were and now there are folks that I grew up with and that were around me that Didn't accept or don't accept and don't accept. It just doesn't make sense to me to sort of because my family, we were a regular family. The Cervantes is in Dallas and Brady, Texas in San Antonio, where we were, it didn't”
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“My mom and dad was Mexican, a Mexican-American, his grandparents came from Mexico as ranchers when he was, I think, well before he was born. And my mom's family grew up was located in El Paso, Texas. So Texas folks, and they were both in the military. My dad was a Marine. My mom was in the Navy. They sort of met in New Orleans and got together there and then sort of relocated to Dallas where my dad's family ended up. And all the Cervantes clan was there. And that's sort of how we grew up surrounded by my dad's family and this huge, huge Hispanic culture that we got to enjoy.”
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“Yeah, I was middle brother of three brothers, Martin, my younger brother, Miguel Marcos, my older brother, my dad, Marcos, and my mom Mary. So the 5Ms were the M&Ms to everyone else around the family, the Cervantes family.”
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“Every single show, I don't think I realize it, but everyone always says to me, like, I can't believe you. I can't believe you do that. I said, I don't know. I just get up and go. And, you know, that's one of the amazing things about this show is regardless of how I feel or how what happened last night or any of these things. The show starts and it just goes.”
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“You know, as I am in my third year of this roller coaster here, the ebbs and flows of how the energy comes and goes, it's remarkable. In the first year, I was holding on for dear life. I just getting through one show, and not to mention two shows in a day was I could feel how much it takes. And then, you know, like anything else you do in enough times, your body sort of becomes accustomed. So I have found a rhythm, found a pretty good regimen to sort of keep myself in it. But I tell you, you know, Wednesdays after the show, I go home. I feel okay, you know, but after the rush of two shows, but then I get home and it's like a wall falls on top of me and I fall down realizing that the amount of energy that goes through.”
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