Here's some tragic news. NBC reports that Chicago actor Bernie Yvon, who played Houdini in the first National Tour of Ragtime in 1998, had died in a fatal car crash in Northwest Indiana.
Yvon, 50, was on his way to rehearsal at a theater in Munster where he was scheduled to perform in Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, set to open next week.
General Manager of Theatre at the Center, Richard Friedman, said, "This is a tremendous loss of a fantastic performer and treasured colleague. Bernie made everyone he met feel better about life and every audience member who saw Bernie's work was fortunate to be entertained by a masterful artist."
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I wonder if his crash had anything to do with that huge thunderstorm that ripped across the Midwest to the East Coast yesterday. Actress Molly Glynn was killed yesterday by a falling tree while cycling with her husband at a forest preserve in Northfield , Chicago.
ReplyDeleteCould have been. Looks like a pretty terrible crash involving a tractor trailer truck. Conditions could have been an issue. Horrible.
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