Don Warrington, who played miser landlord Rigsby's tenant in the 1970s series, will direct the new production which opens in Blackpool on 14 May.

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When a couple of Miser's tunes were selected for the short-lived TV series The Handler on CBS, he had to rerecord them, minus the samples.

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No one is surprised when Bernie starts spending time with the wealthy elderly widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), a miser given to screaming fits.

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Those chemicals, which hover at cold-miser temperatures between minus 180 and minus 230 degrees Celsius, let the chip go into overdrive mode without overheating and breaking.

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New York hip-hop artist Pete Miser composes his tunes out of thousands of digital snippets of music, from Shostakovich to the soundtrack of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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