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Article: NEW TV VERSION OF `BYE BYE BIRDIE' FUN TO WATCH.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Correction notice)

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December 1, 1995
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Byline: KEITH MARDER

Jason Alexander has a lot of experience playing a character who has problems at the work place, difficulties relating maturely with the opposite sex and a crazy mother who suffocates him.

You know him as George Costanza, the character Alexander brings to life every Thursday night on ``Seinfeld.'' Nebishy George definitely is all of the above.

Now, meet Albert Peterson, as Alexander, the little man with big-time talent, will show a lot of the same stuff playing the lead character in a new version of musical comedy, ``Bye Bye Birdie,'' at 10 Sunday night on A-Birdie-C (WTEN, Ch. 10).

The 1960s-based musical features ...

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