Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

#1

Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:08am

How exciting!

http://backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001476127

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#2

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:11am

Good for Norbert! Lets hope he gets some good writers, so it's a hit!

#3

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:13am

I'm so thrilled for Norbert! This is exciting. I just hope it does better than Cheno's show.

#4

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:15am

or Faith Prince's. Or Bette Midler's.

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#5

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:39am

Yay! This is very exciting. Hopefully it gets a good writing team and time slot.

Updated On: 11/9/05 at 10:39 AM

#6

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:02am

I wish him luck but I wish he wouldn't go. Sitcom's are so banal and he is way above contrived sitcom humor. But best of luck, maybe he can help breath new life into a dying genre. I know I'll watch.

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#7

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:03am

I hope he doesn't abandon his Bwy career, tho.

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#8

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:04am

i just read it on playbill! that's so exciting for him (but i hope he doesn't leave bway for long...we would miss him too much)!

#9

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:09am

To continue, pop - or Nathan Lane's...

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#10

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:11am

what a shame. here comes the tidey-bowl man now.

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#11

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:16am

Take the money and run, Norby!

Art or not, success or not... The man's got kids to feed and send to college.

Then come back to Broadway with a bigger name-recognition, and choose your own vehicle.

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#12

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:17am

Congrats to Norbert!

#13

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:18am

Who else, except Mandy has been successful on TV?
I found him brilliant in Dead Like Me (but after two seasons I guess many didn't)...but he has that show now on regular TV, although I have not watched it.

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#14

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:21am

Well Patti was on Life Goes On, but I was like four when it was on and I don't remember how long it went for.

#15

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:25am

Who's Mandy?

Carol Burnett did pretty well for herself
Michael C. Hall
Charles Kimbrough
Victor Garber
Glenn Close

...just off the top of my head.

And just about everyone on West Wing...especially Ms. Janney and Mary-Louise Parker. And speaking of Parkers...Sarah Jessica and Cynthia Nixon.

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Updated On: 11/9/05 at 11:25 AM

#16

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:27am

Mandy Patinkin.

Updated On: 11/9/05 at 11:27 AM

#17

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:34am

who's Mandy? Yikes......how soon they forget. Or else how old I am.....

And what sitcom was Glenn Close in? While a major film star, I remember no TV show that she was in.

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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

#18

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:38am

I believe Glenn is one that show "The Shield."

No you're not old Elphaba, I am 21 and I know who Mandy is.

#19

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:39am

Nell Carter, Betty Buckley...

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#20

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:43am

Heh...I don't really associate Mandy w/ tv, hence he didn't register as "successful" to me (never watched any of his shows). That's not to say that he isn't though...

I was just talking about tv in gen'l...not necessarily sitcoms.

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#21

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:44am

Bebe Neuwirth...

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#22

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:47am

Ahh Bebe is such an obvious one...*hits head on desk*

#23

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:54am

Patti LuPone was on a hit television show.

#24

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 12:03pm

The theater people you mention who have been successful have not had sitcoms written around them. The unsuccessful ones have. That is what we're discussing here - this show is being written around him, as in the tragic cases of Chenoweth, Lane, Prince, Midler, and Alexander.

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#25

re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!

Posted: 11/9/05 at 12:03pm

Lithgow...

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