![]() ![]() He’s dying and the play doesn’t spare the audience the sad reality of that. We get to see Schwartz as Albom saw him: a secular saint, focused on others when he has all the reason in the world to be focused on himself. Albom, who hasn’t spoken to him in sixteen years, calls, then visits, then finds himself visiting every Tuesday. Albom, having achieved success as a sports journalist, turns on the TV one night only to see his former professor. The rest can be quickly summarized because you probably know it already (14 million copies! Forty languages!). Albom promises to stay in touch and seems to mean it, but life is calling… Cody Nickell plays Albom, first seen as a college graduate saying goodbye to Morrie Schwartz (Michael Russotto), his favorite professor. It’s simplicity itself: two actors, one room. That something has been distilled into the theatrical version - cowritten by Jeffery Hatcher and currently touring Michigan, including onstage at Wealthy Street Theatre. 14 million copies purchased means something about it clearly resonated. The book was reprinted, and reprinted again. He would later joke that he envisioned himself selling copies out of the back of his car.īut the initial print run of 20,000 copies sold out. ![]() Its author, Mitch Albom, had written it to pay for a dying friend’s medical bills. ![]() Twenty-five years ago, Tuesdays With Morrie was published. ![]()
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