Broadway to honour Jack Klugman and Charles Durning by dimming marquee lights in their memory

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The theatre community will honour Jack Klugman and Charles Durning by dimming Broadway's lights in back-to-back memorials. The marquees at all Broadway theatres will go dark for one minute at 8 p.m.

Mark Kennedy Dec 27, 2012 9:59 AM

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." (AP Photo/File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The theatre community will honour Jack Klugman and Charles Durning by dimming Broadway's lights in back-to-back memorials.

The marquees at all Broadway theatres will go dark for one minute at 8 p.m. Thursday in honour of Durning, who died Monday at 89. Durning amassed several important Broadway credits, including playing Big Daddy in a 1990 revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," David Rabe's "Boom Boom Room" and opposite George C. Scott in "Inherit the Wind" in 1996.

On Friday, the 40 Broadway marquees will go dark at 8 p.m. 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."

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