We attended a wonderful ballet recently. I really enjoyed it
but I did not see any Ballet Parking (see post dated December 6, 2015. That’s
where the understudy dancers park your car for you.) Regardless, it was a great
performance, although, unlike the previous performance we had attended, there
was no standing ovation. My first thought was, “Well, this must not have been
quite as good of a performance as that one.” On second thought though, I had
the following observation: How often is
a standing ovation just one or two guys trying to get out of the auditorium
early to get their cars and beat the rush? So, yeah, they stand up during the
curtain call, and their whole row has to stand up to let them out. You get one or two other
guys doing this in different parts of the auditorium and next thing you know
the whole crowd is on their feet. ‘Cause once you get some percentage of people
on their feet, say 35%, everybody’s gotta stand.
Who’s gonna tell the performers?
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