NEWS & NOTES\Tommy Tune's doing daytime to pluck Thorne for 'Grease!'.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Entertainer Tommy Tune Tommy Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an award-winning American actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Born Thomas James Tune in Wichita Falls, Texas, he attended Lamar High School in Houston. is tackling daytime TV next month with a two-part, guest-starring role on CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful." The episodes, which will air Jan. 10 and 15 at 1:30 p.m., will feature Tune as himself, and Barry Weissler, the producer of Broadway's "Grease!" auditioning "B&B" cast member Jeff Trachta's character, Thorne Forrester Thorne Forrester is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. The character is currently played by Winsor Harmon since December 1996. Previously the role was played by Clayton Norcross from the show's premier in 1987 until 1989, then by Jeff , for a role in Tune's currently running "Grease!" revival. Chances are, "Thorne" will be getting the part, since Trachta will be assuming the starring role of Danny Zuko in the Broadway play beginning Jan. 2. A CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. spokeswoman Wednesday said that the Los Angeles-based soap will cover Trachta's absence with a story line having Thorne succeeding with the audition and heading East for the show. As daytime fans know, it won't be the first time that this kind of Broadway/daytime cross-promotion has been pulled off. Another CBS soap star, Michael Damian of "The Young and the Restless," managed a similar feat, when he - and his daytime alter ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when in "Y&R" - headlined last year's Broadway revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and their first performed. The Likes of Us, written in 1965, was not performed until 2005. ." Civil War redux Refers to being brought back, revived or restored. From the Latin "reducere." : Cable's Family Channel will be unspooling the 24-hour miniseries "North and South" starting Jan. 13. The 1985 series, which starred Patrick Swayze, Lesley-Anne Down, Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, James Read and Genie Francis, will play out on Saturday nights through March 23. The sparkling roster of guest stars includes Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook, Robert Guillaume and Morgan Fairchild. |
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