DAVID GREENE, HOST: Good morning, I'm David Greene. So will it play in Peoria? It's on the line for MORNING EDITION, since we're broadcasting here today.  The will-it-play line dates to vaudeville days. Groucho Marx made it famous.  You know, Peoria was a good test. The crowds were known for being hard to please, and if a show bombed, the Peoria Star Journal wrote the production would be rewritten, recast or just plain cancelled.  Let me just ask the audience here - how are we doing?</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, well, we are still on the air. It's MORNING EDITION.
The line, made famous by Groucho Marx, dates to Vaudeville. Peoria was a good test — crowds were known for being hard to please. Morning Edition broadcasts live on Friday from Peoria.