Broadway to honour Jack Klugman and Charles Durning
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This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, Jack Klugman (left) speaking at the 62nd Annual Tony Awards in New York on June 15, 2008 and Charles Durning (right), during the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Klugman and Durning, both of whom died Monday, Dec 24, 2012, Klugman at 90 in Los Angeles, Durning at 89 in New York, spent storied careers building catalogues of roles that classed them indisputably as "character actors." -- PHOTO : AP
NEW YORK (AP) - The theatre community will honour actors Jack Klugman and Charles Durning by dimming Broadway's lights in back-to-back memorials.
The marquees at all Broadway theaters will go dark for one minute at 8pm Thursday (9am Friday Singapore time) in honour of Durning, who died Monday at 89. Durning played several important Broadway roles, including in a 1990 revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, David Rabe's Boom Boom Room and Inherit The Wind in 1996.
On Friday, the 40 Broadway marquees will go dark at 8pm for Klugman, who also died Monday at 90. Klugman earned a Tony Award nomination for Gypsy in 1960, and his Broadway roles included parts in I'm Not Rappaport and The Sunshine Boys.
