One of the two characters in “Tuesdays with Morrie” is a sick old man who shares his wisdom with a former student. Nick Karson, who plays Morrie, didn’t intend to be a method actor for the role when he got sick this week. Rather than doing more rehearsals, he intends to get plenty of rest leading up to the rise of the curtain on Friday.
“We got him to bed,” co-star Chris Clark said by phone on Wednesday. “I got really sick last week, and he caught what I had. We told him to rest up and save his energy for the weekend. It’s a half-cold, half-flu. We’ve been joking with him — if there’s one show where he could be sick, it’s this one.”
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