It would be great to see these actors in a full-scale production of the play at a proper theater.

"I first saw Jonathan in a production of 'Godspell,' " said a friend, Victoria Leacock, a film maker.

There she met Peter Lorre, who had seen her in a production of Shakespeare's Othello near Vienna, and would later become her husband.

"I first saw it in a televised production with Angela Lansbury and George Hearn."

I was recently surprised to see these elements at work even in a production of Handel's "Agrippina" at the Washington Opera.

It was last seen in 1989 in a full production at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida.

In Wyatt Earp (1994), the famed lawman meets his future wife when he sees her playing in an early production of Pinafore.

Also altered is the play's ending, which has reverted to the one seen in an earlier production in London's West End.

The final bows were the most awkward I have ever seen in a professional production.

I tell him I recently saw his daughter in a production of Noël Coward's "Vortex."