"Cheers" Actor Co-Directs Broadway Hit, "Peter and the Starcatcher" by Roger Friedman, Contributor (FORBES)

What a terrible way to get you, dear reader, into this story.

But Roger Rees, who played British magnate Robin Colcord on “Cheers,” is the co-director (with Alex Timbers) of “Peter and the Starcatcher” on Broadway.

The hilarious and magnificent play with music opened on Sunday night, and it’s a winner. Christian Borle, from the NBC series “Smash” and a long list of Broadway credits, literally steals the show, the theater and everything around him as the comic villain in this sort of re-telling or new-telling of the tale of Peter became Peter Pan.

This a big season of “new” Broadway stars like Borle, Steve Kazee, Jeremy Jordan, Josh Young, and, of course, Michael Cerveris.


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Downton Abbey: Hollywood Star Pleads To Appear In Downton Abbey (E.)

BY MARK WORGAN ON MARCH 6, 2012

US actor beginning to sound desperate...

Downton Abbey has its fair share of fans in Hollywood, and just as the rest of us would love to star in our favourite film or TV series, the glitteratti are begging to be featured on the ITV show.

The latest is former Cheers and current CSI star Ted Danson who explained that he loves watching the period drama with actress wife Mary Steenburgen, and would be delighted to act in the period drama.

He told the Radio Times: "We're watching the second year in [the US] and my wife and I are completely hooked," adding "I can't wait for Crawley to get out of his wheelchair and fall in love with Mary."


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