Word: cue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a now notorious production of Lohengrin, Vienna's late, famed Tenor Leo Slezak missed his entrance cue (so the story goes), and the swan appeared onstage alone, drawing an empty skiff. During the ensuing flap, Tenor Slezak's voice was clearly heard from the wings, in the manner of an annoyed traveler addressing the stationmaster: "When does the next swan leave...
Abruptly, as if by some magical cue from the conductor, the 1,695 hypnotized customers in the audience begin to slam their hands together in rhythm to the march. The music wells, and the actors turn, dip, twist and prance. The applause pounds on in martial time as, a-tatatatat, a-tatatatat, the music pours up from the pit and gilds the hall with shimmering sheets of brass. At last the house lights come on, and the customers shoulder their way to the door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July...
...Spoke proudly of his long friendship with Sherman Adams, who shared his faith in the industrial future of New England. On cue, during the reading he removed a gold wristwatch. passed it to the committee-"providing I get it back.'' Said he: "The watch I am wearing now. on the back of it is written 'to B.G.'-that means Bernard Goldfine-'from S.A.'-that's Governor Sherman Adams-dated Jan. 20. 1953. and we all know that date. That is the inauguration date President Eisenhower was inaugurated...
...queues for standing room started forming outside Carnegie-Hall early in the morning, and nearly an hour before the concert the hall began filling. Van himself arrived backstage five minutes after Conductor Kondrashin had launched the orchestra into Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Before his cue came, he prayed. Then the 6-ft. 4-in. Texan strode onstage and proved to doubters that he was up to his billing: one of the most abundantly gifted piano talents of his time...
...between chattering teeth. "Come on!" He began to run. He ran clear around the football field as fast as his scrubby legs could carry him, and then ran round it again. He ran through the side door of the school auditorium. He ran onstage at the instant of his cue (Enter a Messenger), staggered up to the startled young Macbeth and collapsed in a spectacular wreckage of words: "Gra,(gasp!)cious my (gulp!) lord, I (sob!) should report that (wheeze!) which I (glug!) . . ." The audience gasped, gulped, stared, roared, crashed into applause...