One Week After Starting, Jeffrey Tambor Withdraws from La Cage aux Folles

Four-time Emmy Award nominee Jeffrey Tambor has left the Broadway production of La Cage aux Folles. He joined the musical on Tuesday, February 15 in the role of Georges alongside Harvey Fierstein and played his final performance on Thursday, February 24.

Tambor made his Broadway debut in 1976 in Larry Gelbart’s Sly Fox and appeared in the Public Theater Central Park production of Measure for Measure that same year. He has remained active in theater, directing Lanford Wilson's Burn This at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles and acting and directing at many regional companies. In 2005, he returned to Broadway in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.

On television, Tambor played Hank Kingsley, the self-centered sidekick on HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show, and spent three seasons on the sitcom Arrested Development as twin brothers George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth. He has a recurring role on Entourage and has voiced characters in Monsters vs. Aliens, among other animated films. Forthcoming feature films include Flypaper, opposite Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd; Mr. Popper’s Penguins, with Jim Carrey; For the Love Of Money; Paul and Win Win.

La Cage aux Folles features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret. The current revival opened on Broadway on April 18, 2010, won the 2010 Best Revival Tony as well as a Tony for Terry Johnson’s direction.

No replacement was named for Tambor. Understudy Chris Hoch was scheduled to play the February 25 evening performance.