The Scene: The Large Cabaret Room at DON'T TELL MAMA
The Date: Friday, January 30, 2009
The Time: 9:30 pm (show was scheduled to start at 9:15 pm
The Event: The Cocktail Show with Danny Leary & Becky Donahue
The room was filled to capacity - not one empty seat. People were lined up outside the room, still hoping to get in somehow. A young man was in the doorway - I was seated next to the doorway. He and 3 friends had travelled from NJ to see a comic friend who was in the show. Mr. Leary told him repeatedly that there were no empty seats -certainly not four empty seats.
The young man pulls out a wad of bills and offers me and the other three audience members around me $20 each if we would give up our seats. Very tempting. But he had no takers.
The only other time I ever saw something like this was many years ago at EIGHTY EIGHT'S - Baby Jane Dexter had a sold out house and a gentleman on the stairway asked the folks in the line who were waiting to be seated if they out accept $100 to allow him to take their spot in line.
What would you have done?
