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BOSTON (AP) — The bar where everybody knows your name is coming to the stage.
"Cheers Live on Stage" is a comedy based on some of the most memorable moments of the celebrated TV show's first season. It will feature retired Red Sox pitcher and shameless lothario Sam Malone, pretentious waitress Diane Chambers, rotund barfly Norm Peterson, and the rest of the regulars when it debuts in September in Boston.