On Golden Pond
Oct. 31-Nov. 5, $25-$64.50, Merriam Theatre, 250 S. Broad St., 215-732-5446,
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Broadway Across America makes a tidy profit recycling Broadway productions and showcasing TV actors in the hinterlands. The latest to reach our Avenue of the Arts is Ernest Thompson's 1979 sentimental drama On Golden Pond, starring Tom Bosley (effusively billed as "America's Favorite Dad" for his years in that '70s show about the '50s, Happy Days) and Michael Learned (a four-time Emmy winner for The Waltons, that '70s show about the Depression, and, yes, they're calling her our "Favorite Mom"). They join a long line of distinguished actors who've brought Norman — fearing his encroaching Alzheimer's — and worried wife Ethel to life (replacing James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams in Leonard Foglia's Tony-nominated 2005 revival). The 1981 film version won Oscars for both Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn. Don't go to gawk at survivors from TV's supposed golden days — see it because On Golden Pond's gentle charms and hopeful insights have lost none of their force.
Oct. 31-Nov. 5, $25-$64.50, Merriam Theatre, 250 S. Broad St., 215-732-5446, www.ticketmaster.com.
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