The 1966 Original Broadway Production of Cabaret
Interestingly, or maybe not, my album is slightly different than this pic above which I pulled from Wikipedia. On my album the oval graphic is at the very top and the title is just underneath. I know, yawn. Maybe mine is a later printing.
The thing that really caught my eye is the third name under the graphic, Bert Convy. Perhaps I'm a little slow at these things but I had no idea he was a Broadway star. Wow what a great singing voice he had playing the part of Cliff.
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Why am I having visions of him with Lyle Waggoner?
The Love Boat, Jan. 21, 1977. They both appeared in the same episode.
Was there a three-way between Bert, Lyle, and Captain Stubing?
Convy wasn't the only game show host to star in one musical. Peter Marshall was actually in one off-bway (it was a review) and one on Broadway; Skyscraper which starrred Julie Harris (believe it!) and the ever gay Charles Nelson Reilly. The 60s were starving for male leads with good voices - but they couldn't act worth a damn.
BTW, both Convy and Haworth were roundly beaten to death by critics. Joel Gray carried that show for months. He was explosive. I saw it 7 times in all.
cheers.
Not that it matters much, but Peter Marshall played Dick Van Dyke's part in the West End production of BYE, BYE, BIRDIE! Snare a copy of the London Cast Album and you'll hear Marshall and Chita Rivera, repeating the role she did on Broadway.
Charles Nelson Reilly was Van Dyke's standby on Broadway and Gene Rayburn was one of Van Dyke's replacements.
I do not know where Monty Hall was during all this.
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