Together Again Laughs Burns Rewrote the Act and for the BETSY WICKARD Next Forty Years Was Gracie Allen’S Straight Man

Together Again Laughs Burns Rewrote the Act and for the BETSY WICKARD Next Forty Years Was Gracie Allen’S Straight Man

George Burns and Gracie Allen For Information Contact: Together Again laughs Burns rewrote the act and for the BETSY WICKARD next forty years was Gracie Allen’s straight man. Actress BETSY WICKARD Burns wrote “Lamb Chops”, the act that has performed in theaters propelled them to top billing in the and casinos throughout the vaudeville circuit with Gracie acting as the country. She was a silly, lightheaded foil. Burns and Allen made dancer/singer in The a string of one-reel comedies and then Branson Follies, The Palm Springs Follies, appeared the films “The Big Broadcast” and The Great American Follies, and Golden “A Damsel in Distress” with Fred Astaire. At Girls USA. She appeared in the feature films the same time the Burns and Allen radio Rocky V and Mannequin on the Move. She show became one of the most popular has appeared in numerous national programs of the time. On television, The commercials and print ads for major George Burns and Gracie Allen Show put corporations. She is now living in Florida faces to the radio characters audiences had and performing on the Condo Circuit. She is come to love. After Gracie Allen retired delighted to be portraying Gracie Allen in George Burns remained in show business. “Together Again.” At the age of 78 he won the Academy Award in “The Sunshine Boys” movie and PETER SALZER gained greater stardom as God in the “Oh George Burns and Gracie Allen God” series. George Burns entertained Actor/Writer PETER audiences to the ripe old age of 100 years. Together Again SALZER has created roles When Peter Salzer walks on stage in on stage and on screen “Together Again” audiences see George George Burns and Gracie Allen and has appeared in many television Burns come back to life. With humor and worked together as a successful comedy commercials. Peter uses his many character song audiences are reminded of the era of team that entertained vaudeville, film, voices in commercials and has narrated when George Burns and Gracie Allen radio, and television audiences for over many industrial programs. Fifteen years ago entertained millions. Betsy Wickard is the forty years. George Burns, from New York, he parlayed a part as George Burns in a perfect Gracie Allen in the sketches and started as a small time vaudeville actor. musical into a George Burns Tribute act songs that this talented duo brings to the Gracie Allen and her sisters, “The Four which he has performed around the stage. It is a show long remembered. Colleens” were a song and dance act on the country. In 2001, Peter wrote the play West Coast. When Gracie moved to the “Together Again” which became the basis of East Coast she met Burns and they decided this show when he teamed up with the to do an act together, George the comedian, talented Betsy Wickard who brings Gracie Gracie feeding him the straight lines. Once Allen to life. he realized that she was getting all the .

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