Proud” came along.

The Temp­ta­tions re­minded him of be­ing a kid in the car with his father lis­ten­ing to the Mo­town groups such as The O’Jays and The Four Tops.

“When I got this show, I felt like ev­ery­thing I’ve ever wanted I got,” he said. “I feel like with my father’s death, from the heav­ens above, he gave me ev­ery­thing I needed by get­ting this show.”

“Ain’t Too Proud” has a starry group be­hind it, in­clud­ing orig­i­nal Temp­ta­tion Otis Wil­liams and long­time man­ager Shelly Berger. The cre­ative team in­cludes “Jer­sey Boys” di­rec­tor Des McAnuff and cho­re­og­ra­pher Ser­gio Trujillo, and a script by award-win­ning play­wright and Detroit na­tive Dom­i­nique Mo­ris­seau, pen­ning her first li­bretto and mak­ing her Broad­way de­but.

Dur­ing the To­ronto run of the show, the pro­duc­ers hired a bus, and Ms. Mo­ris­seau led the cast on a tour of the Mo­tor City’s mu­si­cal hot spots, in­clud­ing the row house where Di­ana Ross grew up.

“She wanted us to know that this is how they lived and tried to give as much knowl­edge as she could, so we could truly un­der­stand her writ­ing,” Mr. Cor­nelious said.

Through­out The Temp­ta­tions many years of mak­ing mu­sic, there was much turn­over through de­fec­tions and trag­edy, and that’s where Rich­ard Street, the char­ac­ter played by Mr. Cor­nelious in the sec­ond act, comes in.

In the first act, as the band gets to­gether and earns fame, the ac­tor plays seven other char­ac­ters: the “Glo­ria” so­lo­ist, the voice of a judge, a tai­lor, a TV in­ter­viewer, a drug dealer, a bus

driver and a de­liv­ery man.

In most cases, he is bring­ing bad news in a com­i­cal way. “I’m the [’Ain’t Too Proud’] funny man,” he said with pride. His en­cour­ag­ing father had al­ways told him that com­edy was his strong suit.

“I have two or three lines, and I have to sort of steal the scenes and make ev­ery­body laugh. Dom­i­nique and the di­rec­tor gave me these huge mo­ments, but I have to make some­thing out of them.”

So far, laugh­ter has been his great­est re­ward.

In the sec­ond act, as Rich­ard Street, “I slide on.” The char­ac­ter of trou­bled Temp­ta­tion Paul Wil­liams is seen as stum­bling off­stage, al­low­ing Street (Mr. Cor­nelious) to make the smooth tran­si­tion to take his place.

Mr. Cor­nelious spoke fondly about how his home­town pre­pared him for the life of a Broad­way ac­tor. He is ea­ger to see the new Pitts­burgh Play­house at Point Park, a small col­lege when he was a stu­dent.

“I’m in awe,” he said, of the uni­ver­sity’s scope Down­town.

“I loved where I was in school; I loved grow­ing up in Pitts­burgh,” he said. “It’s what made me able to tackle New York be­cause Pitts­burgh is hard-work­ing peo­ple. Ev­ery­one is down to earth. There’s no fak­e­ness. And I think I grew up in the right way, and it made me tough enough to come to New York and con­quer my dreams.”

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Lecter from “Si­lence of the Lambs” is winc­ing.

Ms. Gil­bert, who played a key role in get­ting the re­boot on the air and ran with “The Con­ners” spin­off show once “Rose­anne” was axed, was dip­lo­matic in her com­ments to the pa­per, not­ing that she would “al­ways love” her for­mer co-star, whom she con­sid­ers “fam­ily.”

“I knew that Rose­anne, the per­son, was un­pre­dict­able at times, but she told me this was her re­demp­tion,” Ms. Gil­bert told the Post. “I chose to be­lieve her.”

It seems that the de­mise of “Rose­anne” was bub­bling away on the back burner at ABC even as the show roared to TV’s No. 1 spot, with ex­ec­u­tives well aware of Ms. Barr’s his­tory on Twit­ter and gam­bling that she would play nice. Well, play nice enough.

“It was al­ways this back and forth of ABC not want­ing to ap­pear they were cen-

sor­ing Rose­anne but also not quite pull­ing out the big guns,” James Moore, Ms. Barr’s long­time pub­li­cist, told the Post. “Go­ing, ‘You’re one tweet away from us can­cel­ing the show.’”

At 2:45 a.m. on May 29, 2018, that tweet came — “Muslim broth­er­hood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj” — and the rest is his­tory.

Ms. Barr cred­its “Amer­ica’s Rabbi” Shmu­ley Boteach for check­ing in on her af­ter the show’s can­cel­la­tion, when she was, ac­cord­ing to the Post, “holed up in her mom’s base­ment in Utah, chain-smok­ing and in tears.”

“Shmu­ley saved my life,” Ms. Barr says. “I was sui­cidal. He was the only per­son who stood by me and said they were go­ing to de­stroy me be­cause I love Trump and Is­rael.”

Mean­while, “The Con­ners” re­port­edly has been re­newed for a sec­ond sea­son.

rent us­ers, have the right to use the mark in com­merce, ei­ther in the iden­ti­cal form or in such near re­sem­blance as to be likely, when used on or in con­nec­tion with the goods/​ser­vices of such other per­sons, to cause con­fu­sion or mis­take, or to de­ceive,” the fine print on the ap­pli­ca­tion said.

Sorry, Khloe Kardashian …

The “Money” and “I Like It” rap­per also plans to put the word on “cloth­ing, namely, T-shirts, sweat­shirts, hooded sweat­shirts, pants, shorts, jack­ets, foot­wear, head­gear, namely hats and caps, blouses, body­suits, dresses, jump­suits, leg­gings, shirts,

sweat­ers, un­der­gar­ments,” ac­cord­ing to records ob­tained by Page Six on Thurs­day.

The Blast re­ported that she filed an ap­pli­ca­tion spelling the word with two Rs as well.

On “The To­night Show,” the Bronx-bred rap­per said the pop­u­lar catch­phrase — also the sub­ject of Pepsi’s Su­per Bowl 2019 com­mer­cial — is like the sound a “cold pi­geon in New York City” makes.

No word yet if ap­pli­ca­tions for “ee­e­oo­ow­www” or any of her other ASMR sounds will fol­low.

At­tor­neys for Cardi B did not im­me­di­ately re­spond to The Times’ re­quest for com­ment.