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No time for Jesse to relax

- T’S THE THEATER Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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Iequivalen­t of boot camp – spending 90 minutes alone onstage channeling some 40 different characters, without a single break in the action. So after wraps up a 17-week run starring on Broadway in the one-man show “Fully Committed” tonight, you’d figure he’s due for a week on the beach. Instead he’ll get six hours on a plane. Shooting for the eighth season of “Modern Family,” the hit comedy featuring Ferguson as the lovably uptight lawyer Mitchell Pritchett, begins Wednesday. So instead of grabbing some R&R, Ferguson will head straight for the airport tomorrow to fly back to Los Angeles. “That’s my vacation – my flight home,” he says. “I’ll sleep, I’ll read a book.” Doing eight solo shows a week “is the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” says Ferguson, who plays a harried phone reservatio­nist at a white-hot restaurant. “I thought it would get easier, but the exhaustion level has actually increased.” In addition to the mental strain of juggling dozens of characters, “it’s the physicalit­y of it,” says Ferguson, who lost 15 pounds during the run. “I’m sweating so much that by the end I look like I’ve taken a bath in my costume.” To survive the grind called for a spartan regimen – no post-show cocktails, vocal rest, eating well. Still, it was worth the missed martinis. “I’m a theater kid at heart, so to be in a one-man show on Broadway with my name on the marquee – it was a oncein-a-lifetime opportunit­y.” It was also a chance to perform for some heroes, including

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