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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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