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[email protected] Cheyenne Jackson Bares All Mark your calendar for November 7. History will be made as an important boundary will be broken that day, tak- ing us one step closer to full equality. On that Friday evening at 7:30pm, Cheyenne Jackson will become the first male headliner to be featured in the fabulous Broadway @ NOCCA series who’s not wearing a dress for the occasion. The sound of a glass ceiling crashing is a wonderful thing. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Jackson from his home in Los Angeles and he comes off as decent a person on the inside as he is handsome on the outside. The trip here for B@N will be his first visit to New Orleans. ”I’m excited about coming to New Orleans and wish I had more time to spend there,” Jackson said, “but I’m busy with various projects [he had just Cheyenne Jackson gotten back from working in Arizona] (Photo by Adam Bouska) and I just got married.” Sorry, guys, but While the show was in previews, Jason Landau’s the lucky one. Jackson got a call late one night from Although Jackson had performed Director Christopher Ashley, “so I knew in his native Washington State in his something was up.” It turned out that younger days and his parents had al- leading man James Carpinello was in- ways been supportive (“It was very jured in a skating accident and Ashley clear to them what I wanted to do.”), he was asking if Jackson would come see didn’t start performing professionally the show with Kerry Butler, the new till he was 27, “much older than some leading lady, and “maybe help us out.” starting straight out of Juilliard,” he Jackson went and “I was blown said.