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Richard Thomas portrays Mark Twain in the play "Mark Twain Tonight! in New York. ( Julieta Cervantes via AP)

NEW YORK – Richard Thomas has not one but two big shoes to fill when he goes out on the road this summer in a celebrated one-man show.

The Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee is portraying the great American writer Mark Twain in a play written and performed for decades by the late Hal Holbrook.

Thomas immediately accepted the offer to star in the 90-minute “Mark Twain Tonight!” that tours more than a dozen states this summer and fall before wondering what he'd gotten himself into.

“I walked down to the street and I said, ‘Are you crazy? What are you out of your mind?’” he says, laughing. “I had to grapple with who’s the bigg

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