Friday, Murray's Playhouse in the Park opens Tuesdays with Morrie. The play is based on a memoir chronicling the relationship between retired professor Morrie Schwartz and his former student, the bestselling writer Mitch Albom, also known for his book The Five People You Meet in Heaven. They reacquainted when Mitch saw Morrie on Nightline and discovered his former professor suffered from ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease.