Well aside from the public at large, a whole coterie of Daniel's students came in from up and down the west coast to see their mentor, and that was very nice. And there was another whole coterie of Dell'Arte people who had never been able to see Daniel live, and they also came in from up and down the west coast. So NEA ying-yangage had relatively little to do with it.
I did fume publically about the Oregonian and a theater director came up to me afterward and tell me she didn't even get a calendar listing (which is all Daniel got) when she had John Guare come to town for a reading and seminar. That's Portland, folks.