I will have to think about the TOD....nothing is coming to me.
BUT - I will tell MY story about back when I was directing THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER in 1986.
As MR BK has written, at the end of Act Two, THE MAN is doing a radio show that includes a boys choir - that just adds to the hilarious chaos.
We had six boys who were doing a fine job. One evening after notes, I asked if anyone had any questions. One of the boys raised his hand and I called on him. He said: "I won't be able to do the show because we are going on vacation that week."
I said: "Uh....okay. Well then you don't have to come to any more rehearsals."
And he said: "Oh, I can come to all the rehearsals, I just can't do the show."
And I said: "That's okay. You don't have to come to anymore rehearsals. If your mom has any questions, have her call me."
I think he still came to a couple of rehearsals before he disappeared.
That's as good as this Marx Brothers scene from "Animal Crackers."
(book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.)
Captain Spaulding: What do you fellows get an hour?
Ravelli: Oh, for playing we getta ten dollars an hour.
Spaulding: I see...What do you get for not playing?
Ravelli: Twelve dollars an hour.
Spaulding: Well, clip me off a piece of that.
Ravelli: Now, for rehearsing we make special rate. Thatsa fifteen dollars an hour.
Spaulding: That's for rehearsing?
Ravelli: Thatsa for rehearsing.
Spaulding: And what do you get for not rehearsing?
Ravelli: You couldn't afford it