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is doing a wonderful dance."

"It's a great show-off number because I'm a musician, I play the piano, and halfway through the number a piano rolls onstage," he remembers. "You get to do everything you ever wanted to do in the space of a four or fiveminute song. I'll never get tired of it."

One aspect of the play that could have been trying for him as an actor is replacing a "big name" from the Broadway cast in the tour, but apparently there are few people who would really try to compare him to David Hyde Pierce.

"I haven't encountered them, but there's a word for them," he laughs. "They're 'critics.'

"Before we left for the road, we did a performance in the studio for the Broadway cast, and David Hyde Pierce could not be a more gracious guy," Turner says. "When we opened in Boston, he sent me flowers and a nice note. He seems like just a complete regular guy."

While Hyde Pierce's television character of Niles Crane often left viewers confused about his sexual orientation (a very effete heterosexual man, for those keeping score), Turner is out, loud and proud, and he

attributes his openness to having already fulfilled his dream.

"The problem you have is if you want to be a movie star, and I decided a long time ago I have no interest in being a movie star, and then everything else falls into place because you're not managing a public persona and you're not trying to craft an image," he points out.

"The theater isn't a stepping-stone for me, it's a destination," he says. "I was one of those kids who just really wanted to be an actor early on."

"It's such a boring story, really. But if I think about it, I think it's about being in a place where you're being observed, but you're not trying to please, and yet you can say anything, you're given the words to be articulate, you're given the words to express your feelings," he notes. "Being on stage is always having the words to express what's human about you and being observed doing it is just icing on the cake, I guess."

Monty Python's Spamalot will be in Cleveland at Playhouse Square from October 3 to 15, then it heads to Cincinnati for a run at the Aronoff Center from October 17 to 29. For Cleveland tickets, call 216241-6000 or go online to www.playhousesquare.org. For Cincinnati tickets, call 513-621-2787 or go to www.cincinnatiarts.org.

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