TOD
(A tale Woody says will warm the cockles of esteemed bk's heart)
While I was living in LA back in the 1970's I had season tickets to the Pantages which were the very front row, the very center seats. They did a run of HELLO DOLLY starring, wait for it....Carol Channing. Now I had seen a earlier run of her show, and knew about her curtain call shtick - after milking it for all she could, she started on a little speech, and then, as if noticing the audience for the first time, interrupted herself and said, "Oh you poor dears, are you all still standing, please sit down.!"
Well, the show was over, the performance ho-hum, and these butt-cheeks were staying fixed! So with hundreds of devoted fans on their feet aroar, two men were very conspicuously still seated. The darling Ms Channing looked down from the stage and gave a wonderful Alexis Carrington look - her best performance of the evening!
der Brucer
Poor Carol - not starring, just staring!
PS This was in my pre-Woody days.