NAMES IN THE NEWS : Ice-Skating Floors Irish Actor

NEW YORK — When actor Milo O’Shea was recruited for the Broadway revival of “Meet Me in St. Louis,” he was excited about returning to the stage. But that was before he knew it involved ice-skating.

“In Ireland, my country, they do not have ice-skating. The winters are too mild,” O’Shea said Tuesday on WYNY-TV’s “Good Day New York.”

O’Shea said he figured when the show’s producers asked if he could skate that they meant roller-skate. He was wrong.

“So I went along, and they presented me with ice skates, and I was horrified,” O’Shea recalled. “I said I had never ice-skated. They said, ‘Don’t worry. We got a very good skater who’ll show you how.’ ”