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It’s Been a Busy Month, Now Doc Prescribes Rest for Roseanne

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From Times Wire Services

It has not been the happiest of holidays for comedienne Roseanne Barr.

Last week, the wisecracking sitcom mom called off her real-life wedding and said her boyfriend had entered a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic. On Thursday, Barr canceled five theater performances at a Northern California theater because of exhaustion.

“Due to exhaustion, Miss Barr has been forced to suspend all current activities,” Susan Pfeifer, spokeswoman for San Carlos’ Circle Star Center, said in a statement Thursday.

“Her doctor has insisted that in order to preserve her health, she reschedule all current engagements,” Pfeifer said.

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Barr’s spokeswoman, Lisa Kasteler in Los Angeles, confirmed that Barr was exhausted.

“She is at home and has not been hospitalized,” Kasteler said.

The shows at the Circle Star, a 3,700-seat theater-in-the-round, were the only performances Barr had scheduled that were canceled, Kasteler said.

Last week, Barr called off her Jan. 20 wedding to Tom Arnold, a former consultant to her show, “Roseanne.” She explained in a terse statement last Friday that Arnold had entered an alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinic.

Barr recently protested Arnold’s being fired from the show. And in a Dec. 5 interview on NBC’s “Today” show, she said she plans to leave television soon.

“I’m outta there. That’s what happens,” she told interviewer Jim Brown, when asked if she would leave if her fledgling movie career took off.

An ABC executive later said he “wasn’t worried” about the possibility of her leaving the show, which is consistently at the pinnacle of the weekly Nielsens.

Barr’s first motion picture, “She-Devil,” with Meryl Streep, has been a box-office disappointment so far, placing fourth in last week’s box office derby.

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The Circle Star Center said it had sold out the first of Barr’s shows next Friday at $29.50 a ticket, and was close to selling out the others for prices up to $40 a ticket for New Year’s Eve.

Barr rescheduled four of her performances for Feb. 22, 23 and 24, when she will have two shows, but was unable to reschedule the Dec. 31 show.

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