This is hilarious! Who says that techs aren't creative!?!?
Thanks! It went over quite well. The singer (Melani Drummer, as Dorothy Brock, and a bravura performance) is facing
stage right. The
bit begins with her actually at
stage right, in spot, low GI elsewhere. The rest of the cast is upstage-left (behind her right shoulder, out of that shot). I walked up onto the
stage from
stage right, with the words on my shirt covered. I stood there without moving for a second, and then turned the light on (held the battery pack in my left
hand). After she starts singing, Dorothy crosses to
stage left. As she moved, I moved right after her, uncovering the words on my shirt. Got quite a whoop out of the rest of the cast.
But it got better than I planned. Melani didn't know what I was going to do (I only told her not to worry about it if I got on
stage near her). She only saw it as it unfolded. But the song Dorothy sings at this
point is all about how she realizes the man she just sent away is really the most important thing to her, and how much she realizes she needs him. What Melani did at that
point was (as you can see in the picture) turn to
face me, singing, "I guess I never knew how I needed you," as she walked up to me, draped that feather boa over my shoulders, and put her hands on my cheeks. The cast went nuts watching the star singing about how she can't live without her spotlight.
Sometimes, the gods just let it all work right.