Melissa, you are not mistaken. Peter Marshall did, indeed, appear in La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway. . Here's hi Broadway CV: Peter Marshall on Broadway <https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/peter-l-marshall-95813>
On Monday, August 19, 2024 at 8:21:11 PM UTC-4 Melissa P wrote: > I could've sworn Peter Marshall was in *La Cage aux Folles* when I saw > the show on Broadway, my second Broadway show. I had been on a work trip > in Northern New Jersey and took NJ Transit into the city at the end of the > day and went straight to TKTS where I asked for a ticket for either *A > Chorus Line* or *La Cage*, whichever had the better available seat. > > However, I couldn't find any evidence that Marshall ever performed in the > show on Broadway, although he did tour with it. Finally, I read in his > obit that he had spent a year on Broadway in the show. > > I didn't see *La Cage* again until it was at the Kennedy Center (2012), > where George Hamilton played the part Marshall had played. > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 2:05 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Although Peter Marshall's career encompassed Broadway, movies, TV and >> radio, he is undoubtedly best known as the straight man to the tic-tac-toe >> board panelists on "Hollywood Squares" during its original 15-year run on >> NBC daytime and syndication--his stint as the straight man to comedian >> Tommy Noonan in nightclubs and film put him in good stead for his role >> hosting "Squares", which he followed with two less successful series for >> co-creator and producer Merrill Heatter, "Fantasy," a variety-game hybrid >> for NBC, and "All-Star Blitz," a twist on the "Squares" format for ABC (the >> less said about "The Reel to Reel Picture Show" on what was then PAX-TV and >> now Ion, the better)--at his home in Encino, no doubt near the motel that >> Gene Rayburn and Brett Somers were always talking about (he joked about >> being mistaken for Rayburn--he couldn't appear on "Match Game" until >> "Squares" had ended for contractual reasons): >> >> >> https://www.thewrap.com/peter-marshall-emmy-winning-hollywood-squares-host-dies-at-98/ >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/8f8880f7-cca8-4590-9beb-c8dcf18c0b6an%40googlegroups.com.
