Great little article about a snafu during Wednesday night’s performance of the Pajama Game and how Harry Connick Jr. who plays the lead and is nominated for a Tony Award stepped in to save the night. (By coincidence, I had just heard Connick on Fresh Air yesterday. It must have been a taped interview–there was no mention of Wednesday night’s goings’ on.)
Connick, a great stage presence in his other life as a jazz performer (I saw him at Jazz Fest in New Orleans many years ago and he’s terrific) went out on stage when the curtain thumped down after a set malfunction and talked with the audience for a half hour while the staging problem was fixed. It’s what you do, he said. You keep the audience happy.
Something about that connection with the audience is extraordinary.
