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Bert Lahr onstage?! OMG, someone grab the TARDIS, now!
TIL that Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard Of Oz, played Estragon in the first American production of Waiting for Godot.
Wait, Bing Crosby isn't in it. But he is! AKA the Cowardly Lion.
Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion costume from the Wizard of Oz is available for sale. Courage sold separately.
It was on this day in 1939 that Bert Lahr pooted onstage during the Du Barry bedroom scene . I still haven t gotten over it