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pull on my costume, and the makeup lady had only one side of my face done, when the nervous, first-time stage manager rushed in and told me it was my scene. I could hardly believe that the play was moving along that fast, but I hurried on and gave my one great oration of the play. It was meant to be a serious scene, but the audience, full of reporters snapping pictures, roared with laughter while the director looked on with horror written all over his face. It was then that I looked around me and found the set was not correct for my part - it was two scenes too early. A cool draft of air from the auditorium floated across the stage, and it was at that instant that I also realized my fly was open. Despite all of that, I controlled myself and did not utter the demonic phrase. I slunk off of the stage and got my makeup finished and my costume malfunction functioning and was ready, but embarrassed, to take my second approach to the stage to utter the same soliloquy as before, knowing it would now fall flat. I was in my chair, sitting solemnly, waiting for the curtains to open so I could deliver the now infamous address, when the excited stage manager rushed on and told me I had forgotten my microphone. During my futile 14