Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, who endeared themselves to American TV viewers in the 1970s with the sitcom adaptation of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, will return to Broadway in another Simon star vehicle, The Sunshine Boys. Previews are set for Nov. 29; opening night will be Dec. 8. The Lyceum Theatre, vacated by The Gin Game Aug. 31, will house the Simon revival in NYC.

This June has become something of a grim reaper for a number of productions, both on and Off-Broadway -- the positive side being that the closings open up much-desired theatres in a log-jammed theatrical climate.

Last Chance to catch Tony Randall and Jack Klugman reprising their recent Broadway roles in Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys June 8-20 at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. According to a box office spokesperson (reached June 18), tickets are still available for remaining performances.

As the opener to Casa Manana's summer season, Tony Randall and Jack Klugman will reprise their recent Broadway roles in Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys June 8-20 at the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.

They played their New York hand all through the summer of 1997, then they stacked the deck in Chicago that fall. They even played L.A.'s Wiltshire in early September when Alfred Uhry's Bally wasn't yet ready to Hoo. Nevertheless, The Gin Game doesn't officially start its national tour until Oct. 27, with Julie Harris and Charles Durning in the leads.

They played their New York hand all through the summer of 1997, then they stacked the deck in Chicago that fall. Since then, The Gin Game hasn't been played by Julie Harris and Charles Durning, but that's about to change.

Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Paxton Whitehead finish their run in Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing May 23 at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Performances began April 27 with an opening April 30. Whitehead also directs.

Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Paxton Whitehead open Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing April 30 at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Performances began April 27 for a run through May 23. Whitehead also directs.

Call them The Odd Triple: Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Paxton Whitehead star in Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing April 27-May 23 at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Whitehead also directs.

Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Paxton Whitehead will step into Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossing Apr. 27-May 23 at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse. Rough Crossing replaces Kay Mellor's British comedy, A Passionate Woman, originally scheduled for that slot.

It's a good thing Broadway's The Sunshine Boys is closing June 28. Star Tony Randall will need all the time he can get to care for his new son, Jefferson Salvini Randall, who was born on June 15. It is the second child for the actor and his wife Heather, 28.

As reported by Playbill On-Line in early May, Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, who endeared themselves to American TV viewers in the 1970s with the sitcom adaptation of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, will end their Broadway engagement in another Simon star vehicle, The Sunshine Boys, June 28. At that point, the show will have run 12 previews and 230 regular performances.

Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, who endeared themselves to American TV viewers in the 1970s with the sitcom adaptation of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, continue their Broadway return in another Simon star vehicle, The Sunshine Boys.

Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, who endeared themselves to American TV viewers in the 1970s with the sitcom adaptation of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, have returned to Broadway in another Simon star vehicle, The Sunshine Boys. Previews began Nov. 29; opening night is scheduled for Monday Dec. 8 at the Lyceum Theatre.

As if to emphasize just how tough June has been on the New York theatre season, three Broadway shows will close Sunday, June 28: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Sunshine Boys and Wait Until Dark.

The nominating committee of the Antoinette Perry Awards is scheduled to meet Sunday, May 3, and choose nominees for the 1998 awards.

The 1997-98 Broadway season began June 1. As the fall rush of plays and musicals go into rehearsal, here is how the production schedule is shaping up. Proposed shows have been divided into categories, based on how firm their bookings are. Note that, in contrast to recent seasons, musicals seem to be scheduled early- or mid-season, rather than clustered at the end.

The National Actors Theatre, the theatrical company founded by Tony Randall in 1991, will continue producing works following the recent death of Mr. Randall.

LETTING GEORGE (AND IRA) DO IT: It being Ira's centennial, expect a little something by the Gershwin brothers to surface in the City Center's next season of Encores! Rumor is that the other two slots will be filled with Johnny Mercer lyrics one to the melodies of Harold Arlen (their rarely done St. Louis Woman) and the other to the tunes of his Seven Brides for Seven Brothers collaborator, Gene de Paul (Li'l Abner). Back when Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were wedded, MGM promised them in the film version of St. Louis Woman, but their marriage went under first. . . . Musicals in Mufti, the York Theatre Company's underfunded facsimile of the Encores! series, just finished its fourth season of staged readings of old shows in search of new looks. This year's trio: Comden & Green and Jule Styne's musical about Hollywood of the thirties, Fade Out Fade In; Evin Drake's musicalization of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra titled (wickedly) Her First Roman; and Galt MacDermot and William Dumaresq's musicalization of William Saroyan's The Human Comedy. . . . Kyra Sedgwick jetted back from Europe just in time to catch her brother, Rob Sedgwick, open in an applauded new piece by Ben Bettenbender from the Directors Company at Theatre 3, Those Left Behind. . . . Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, "The Odd Couple" of TV, are headed for the Coconut Grove Playhouse to turn into The Sunshine Boys (also by Neil Simon). The results they'll install at the Lyceum this December, under John Tillinger's direction. . . . James Naughton, who took a break from his Tony-winning performance in Chicago to do a little directing in Williamstown, will helm the season curtain-raiser for son Greg's Blue Light Theatre Company: Eduardo Da Filippo's Filumena: A Marriage Italian Style, adapted by (and starring) Maria Tucci.

DUTCH TREAT: New York Theatre Workshop, from which came Rent, is lifting off its new season with More Stately Mansions, and artistic director James C. Nicola has left the directing to Ivo van Hove, one of the shining theatrical lights of The Netherlands. It marks his U.S. directorial debut and the first and only time this Eugene O'Neill opus has been seen since its original Broadway presentation 30 years ago with Ingrid Bergman and Colleen Dewhurst. . . . Mojo, Jez Butterworth's inspection of the seedy side of early rock-n-roll (circa 1958) in London's Soho, will get The Atlantic Theater Company in gear with a production helmed by artistic director Neil Pepe. When premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre, the play captured the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. . . . Playwright's Preview Productions, which launched Minor Demons and Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown, now operates under the name of Urban Stages, and its 1997-98 season is entitled "Asian Women Speak." Two cases-in-point will be presented: I See My Bones, a romance by Kitty Chen, and Details/ Cannot/ Body/ Wants, a performance piece written and presented by Chin Woon Ping.. . . The Fantasticks creative duo Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt are opening the York Theatre Company's 29th season in December by premiering (and personally presenting) a portfolio of their theatre songs called The Show Goes On.

Tony Randall, the star of a string of 1950s Doris Day films and the 1970s television sitcom "The Odd Couple," who late in life realized a dream by founding the National Actors Theatre, died May 18 in his sleep yesterday evening at NYU Medical Center due to complications from a prolonged illness, a spokesman said. He was 84 years old.