![]() ![]() “I somehow managed to get work within the theater community.” “I did all sorts of odd jobs, but I never had to clean up feces in the bathroom the way my character does in ‘Fully Committed,’ ” he says. He also sold T-shirts at “The Phantom of the Opera,” and posters, key chains and snow globes at the Theatre Circle shop on West 44th Street. “I saw the first act of ‘Cats’ for a year and a half, and I have to say I loved it. “I worked in the rear orchestra bar at the Winter Garden when ‘Cats’ was there,” he says. ![]() While he’s never waited tables here, he’s certainly paid his dues. In it, Ferguson plays a struggling actor who takes reservations at a fancy Manhattan restaurant. The producers have extended its run by a week, to July 31, and theater insiders predict weekly grosses of up to $600,000 this summer as “Modern Family”-loving tourists descend on New York. He’s said to have one of the highest Q ratings (a measure of likability) of any actor on television.īut he’s a Broadway baby at heart, and is having fun creating 40 different characters in the one-man comedy “Fully Committed.” Though critics and Tony nominators slighted the show, Ferguson’s popularity’s turned it into a nice hit. Ferguson has five Emmy nominations for his role on “Modern Family,” going into its eighth season. The beanpole in the sailor suit from “On the Town” is now, at 40, one of the most famous actors in the world. That number sprang to mind the other day at Sardi’s, where Ferguson was honored with one of the restaurant’s famed caricatures. In “Come Up to My Place,” she picked him up and hurled him around the stage as if he were made of straw. Jesse Tyler Ferguson made his Broadway debut opposite Lea DeLaria in the 1998 revival of “On the Town.” Ferguson was shaped like a beanpole in those days DeLaria, we have to admit, was not.
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