NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-six years after he teamed up with Keanu Reeves to play a pair of well-intentioned dimwits on the big screen, Alex Winter finds himself beside the same guy on Broadway playing another set of sweet, low-bulbed guys.

The two actors have had different trajectories in the years since they kicked off the “Bill & Ted” movie franchise — including Winter becoming a skilled indie director — but have remained close and are reteaming for the existential stage masterpiece “Waiting for Godot.”

“That similarity is not lost on any of us,” says Winter. “We are inescapably Bill and Ted. So there’s going to be an aspect of that in there because it’s who we are.”

Playwright Samuel Beckett’s work is two acts of artful anticipation, a play filled with vaudevillian high jinks that mask

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