In 1965, after signing with ABC Paramount and starring at New York's Copacabana, as well as Las Vegas and London, Michaels starred for a year as Fanny Brice in the National Company of
Funny Girl. She reprised the role six months after the year-long run ended when
Carol Lawrence was injured before her turn as Fanny at the
Westbury Music Fair in
Long Island, New York. During
Funny Girl, Marilyn made appearances on
The Dean Martin Show and
The Red Skelton Show,
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and
The Jonathan Winters Show. In 1973 she starred as the only female performer in the Emmy-nominated comedy series
The Kopykats for ABC's Kraft Music Hall (Smith Hemion Productions). Michaels later starred with
Rich Little in a 1981 TV commercial for the Diet 7 Up Campaign, "Look Who's Turning Diet 7 Up". She appeared in a
Playboy pictorial for
Playboy as
Bette Midler,
Bo Derek,
Julie Andrews,
Barbra Streisand,
Donna Summer,
Lily Tomlin, and
Brooke Shields. She reprised some of these characters while working with
Debbie Reynolds on
The Love Boat in 1982. In that year,
Woody Allen also cast her in a cameo as 1930s film star
Mae West in
Zelig. When Allen decided to cut the piece, preferring documentary footage to an impression, Marilyn wrote of her experience working with Allen, including photos showing her dressed in Woody's garb, for
US Weekly. In 1983, she performed five voices for the PBS series
Reading Rainbow for the book "Gregory the Terrible Eater", and was all the voices for the satire audio book, "Frankly Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn!" ==Catskills on Broadway—Present==