# Cheers - Live on Stage **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890 "2016-06-20T14:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/1 "2016-06-20T14:59:13Z")
I’d enjoy seeing this. They couldn’t get the original actors but the reboot is a great idea. Wonder if they’ll include coach instead of Woody? I liked him better > **[Where everybody knows your name: 'Cheers' coming to stage](https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2016/06/20/everybody-knows-name-cheers-coming-stage/)** > > The bar where everybody knows your name is coming to the stage with "Cheers Live on Stage." > [@](#): > > Cheers Live on Stage” is a comedy based on some of the most memorable moments of the celebrated TV show’s first season. It will feature retired Red Sox pitcher and shameless lothario Sam Malone, pretentious waitress Diane Chambers, rotund barfly Norm Peterson, and the rest of the regulars when it debuts in September in Boston. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/2 "2016-06-20T20:41:27Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Wonder if they’ll include coach instead of Woody? I liked him better > > [https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2016/06/20/everybody-knows-name-cheers-coming-stage](https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2016/06/20/everybody-knows-name-cheers-coming-stage) Yes, according to the link. > [@](#): > > “I took season one of ‘Cheers’ and put it all into a big pot and cooked it up and boiled it down,” he said. “The main through-line is the relationship between Sam and Diane but done in a way so it feels fresh.” > > Fans will get their fill of all of their favorite “Cheers” characters, but because the two-hour show is based solely on the first season, there will be no Woody, no Frasier and no Rebecca. Kind of a shame. I would think there’d be a way to have Coach and Woody, Rebecca, Frasier and Lillith along with Diane, all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/3 "2016-06-20T21:21:27Z")
So will they use unknown actors or actors that everyone knows their names? ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/4 "2016-06-20T21:28:31Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Yes, according to the link. > > Kind of a shame. I would think there’d be a way to have Coach and Woody, Rebecca, Frasier and Lillith along with Diane, all at the same time. If this is successful, count on two “sequels” - Cheers post-Diane, and Frasier. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/5 "2016-06-20T21:50:30Z")
PS- is it even possible to find and see a copy of the last episode, the ‘live one’… the one where every stick that had found an ass reported them as ‘shameful’ and ‘disgraceful’? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/6 "2016-06-20T22:13:44Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > If this is successful, count on two “sequels” - Cheers post-Diane, and Frasier. Heck, they could do one for each season. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/7 "2016-06-20T22:32:38Z")
If they want to keep the play authentic. The actress hired to play Diane needs to be a diva hand difficult to work with. 😃 I’ve heard the behind the scenes tensions got pretty intense. But that actually worked on screen. Diane was always a bit of an outsider that sometimes irritated the other characters. ---
**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/8 "2016-06-22T07:34:34Z")
They should have Coach appear during Act I and Woody replace him for Act II. Anway, I’d be more interested if they were covering the Frasier/Lilith years as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-live-on-stage/757890/9 "2016-06-22T15:46:11Z")
Actually, [Cheers has already been done live on stage.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-vwMEEe7E)