Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#0Norbert 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
What the puck?!
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#1re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:11amGood for Norbert! Lets hope he gets some good writers, so it's a hit!
safety_in_falsehood
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/05
#2re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:13amI'm so thrilled for Norbert! This is exciting. I just hope it does better than Cheno's show.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#3re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 10:15amor Faith Prince's. Or Bette Midler's.
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#4re: 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
#5re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:02amI 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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tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#6re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:03amI hope he doesn't abandon his Bwy career, tho.
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#7re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:04ami 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)!
#8re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:09amTo continue, pop - or Nathan Lane's...
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#9re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:11amwhat a shame. here comes the tidey-bowl man now.
Mind is Mantra.
#10re: 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.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#12re: 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.
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
safety_in_falsehood
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/05
#13re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:21amWell 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.
Madame X
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/03
#14re: 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.
"Some of us have it worse, you know, Dana. Some of us are dating lesbian men. Okay? C'mon."
Updated On: 11/9/05 at 11:25 AM
safety_in_falsehood
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/05
#15re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:27amMandy Patinkin. Updated On: 11/9/05 at 11:27 AM
#16re: 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.
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
safety_in_falsehood
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/05
#17re: 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.
#18re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:39amNell Carter, Betty Buckley...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Madame X
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/03
#19re: 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.
"Some of us have it worse, you know, Dana. Some of us are dating lesbian men. Okay? C'mon."
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
safety_in_falsehood
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/05
#21re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:47amAhh Bebe is such an obvious one...*hits head on desk*
#22re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 11:54amPatti LuPone was on a hit television show.
#23re: Norbert lands a sitcom deal!
Posted: 11/9/05 at 12:03pmThe 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.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
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