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George Wendt has bypass surgery in Chicago, comes out laughing
George Wendt, the Second City alumnus and beloved TV star known for playing Norm on "Cheers," underwent successful coronary bypass surgery at a Chicago-area hospital Thursday. According to Wendt's Los Angeles-based manager, Geoff Cheddy, tests had...
Tags: The Second City, George Wendt, Medical Procedures and Tests
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'Odd Couple': Midlife crisis tale ages gracefully
The bar for what qualified as "odd" in 1965, we so easily forget, was not so high. A couple of unrelated men living together qualified — especially if one of them actually liked to dust, could cook up a tasty London broil and found it easy to cry...
Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, George Wendt, Comedy (genre), Manhattan (New York City)
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The casting was messy, but show goes on for 'Odd Couple'
Marc Grapey is not George Wendt. He knows this. In the Chicago theater world, Grapey is an extremely accomplished actor, having appeared this year in "Race" and "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre and in "Equivocation" at Victory Gardens Theater....
Tags: Goodman Theatre, Stranger Than Fiction, About Last Night (movie), George Wendt, Conan O'Brien
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George Wendt is hospitalized, out of 'Odd Couple'
George Wendt is leaving the cast of "The Odd Couple" for medical reasons. The longtime Chicago improviser, best known for playing the role of Norm on television's "Cheers," checked into the hospital Sunday evening with chest pains, the Northlight Theatre...
Tags: George Wendt, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane
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Why we're seeing stars in Chicago
With Diane Lane prowling the boards at the Goodman Theatre, not long after Nathan Lane in "The Iceman Cometh," and with Jimmy Smits now lined up for "The Motherf**ker with the Hat" later this season at Steppenwolf Theatre, star casting has suddenly...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, William Petersen, Scarlett Johansson, George Wendt, Chris Rock
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Pat Sajak In 'Odd Couple' At Jorgensen
The Hartford CourantIt might seem at first like an odd coupling: the puckish host of "Wheel of Fortune," one of the longest running game shows in television history, performing in theater in rural Connecticut. But Pat Sajak doesn't see it that way. "The Odd Couple" is a...Tags: Robin Williams, Stranger Than Fiction, Vietnam, Comedy (genre), Neil Simon
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Pat Sajak stars in "The Odd Couple" at the Jorgensen in Storrs
Pat Sajak's (left) been a part of our lives since the heyday of "Wheel of Fortune" in the '80s. (Many of us fondly remember Martin Short's "SNL" fascination with him as well.) He's in Connecticut playing neat-freak Felix Unger against Joe Moore's (right)...
Tags: Neil Simon, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Martin Short, Pat Sajak, Storrs
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Pat Sajak To Star In "The Odd Couple" At Connecticut Rep's Nutmeg Summer Series
Hartford CourantPat Sajak, the host of TV's long-running game show "Wheel of Fortune," will star in the Neil Simon comedy, "The Odd Couple" at UConn's Nutmeg Summer Series. The show, which also stars, Joe Moore, will play June 21 to July 7 at the Harriet S. Jorgensen...Tags: Nutmeg, Neil Simon, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Pat Sajak, Terrence Mann
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Nauticus and Stage Company team up for swingtime revue
Nauticus and Virginia Stage Company are teaming up to present "Swingtime Salute, An On-Deck Revue," this summer. Performances of the World War II-era song and dance show will take place May 31 through July 8 on the deck of the Battleship Wisconsin in...
Tags: The Happiest News!, Hampton Roads, Neil Simon, Jimmy Dorsey, Music Theater
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On Theater: Double the 'Nunsense' at Playhouse
Neil Simon's"The Odd Couple" was such a big hit that he rewrote it for a mostly female cast. Reginald Rose's "Twelve Angry Men" eventually went coed as "Twelve Angry Jurors."
Neither of these plays, to my knowledge, ever was presented in both versions...Tags: Neil Simon
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Northlight to stage 'Odd Couple' with Wendt, Kazurinsky
Northlight Theatre said Tuesday that it will stage Neil Simon's classic comedy "The Odd Couple" as part of its 2012-13 season, replete with Tim Kazurinsky as the neatnik Felix and George Wendt as the slobby Oscar. The pair, both Second City alumnae, did...Tags: Neil Simon, George Wendt
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50+ Main Titles: 1970–89
LA Times MagazineThe show before the show, part two. Play classic prime-time TV opening sequences, then vote for number one....
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