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Article: Jerry Seinfeld
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 7, 1998
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`Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time' on Broadway
"It's great to be back here, even though I've never been here,"
said Jerry Seinfeld minutes into his Broadway stand-up debut.
Despite the self-kidding words, Seinfeld cozied up so
confidently to his opening-night audience Wednesday that it seemed as
if he had played these streets before. The Broadhurst Theatre, at
least, was thick with an air of deja vu. This may be because his
55-minute act, pruned and shaped for a live HBO broadcast at 8 Sunday
night, was intended to close the door on his old routines once and
for all.
Or perhaps it was because other comic sprinters had made it to
Broadway with this stuff first. When ...