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Two Denver East Angels get their wings on ‘The Conners’

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Wednesday’s episode of ABC’s “The Conners” was sprinkled with Angel dust.

As in, Denver East Angels.

This is crazy: There were two guest stars on the hit sit-com who graduated from Denver East High School: Lynn Andrews and Charlie Korman.

Andrews (Class of 2004) can even say the episode was named after her: “Shrinks Don’t Talk and Kids Don’t Sing.”

Andrews played the carrot-munching psychologist at the college where Roseanne’s daughter, Darlene (Sara Gilbert) works in the lunchroom. Darlene gets nosy when she notices her son, Mark (Ames McNamara) coming out of Andrews’ office. Before long, Andrews’ unnamed character is diagnosing the neuroses of the entire family, to great comic effect.

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Denver actor Lynn Andrews said she nearly fainted when first saw the iconic Conner family couch.






Andrews said she nearly fainted when she walked onto the set and saw the iconic Conner family couch for the first time. “If you want to watch someone try to act their way through their heart exploding from happiness, watch this episode,” she said.

Local Broadway subscribers might remember Andrews returning home to play Miss Hannigan in the 2015 national touring production of “Annie.”

Korman, meanwhile, pops in at the very end of the episode as Caleb, a beer-guzzling bro who invites Mark to stop by a rooftop kegger. Korman will return in next Wednesday’s episode as well.

Korman holds the record for having played Tiny Tim in four of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s seasonal stagings of “A Christmas Carol” – eventually growing into playing Young Scrooge.

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Korman graduated from East in 2001 and now attends the University of Southern California between his many acting jobs in the Los Angeles area, including memorable appearances on “Barry” and “Hacks.”

Korman grew up in and around the Denver Center, attending his first summer theater camp as a toddler. “It was mostly playing games, but it made me a theater-lover for life,” said Korman, who later played featured roles in intense DCTC stagings of “Lord of the Flies,” “Frankenstein” and “The Who’s Tommy.”

John Moore is The Denver Gazette’s senior arts journalist. Email him at john.moore@gazette.com


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