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I have a story to tell about what happened today at the matinee of Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway. (The production is spectacular, one of the best I've ever seen, and I've seen two previous horrible versions of it.) An understudy went on for the female lead, Lindsay Mendez. 1/
Her name is Sherz Aletaha. And she was great. Really, really great. I've seen many bad or mediocre understudies in my life. She was maybe the best ever. Anyway, there's a scene in the play in which the stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff, type stuff on a typewriter. 2/
3/ After the curtain call, Groff and Radcliffe and Aletaha came out to make a holiday pitch for a theater charity called Broadway Cares. Radcliffe announced he was auctioning off the piece of paper he and Groff had typed on for charity; they would sign it.
4/ He reported that what Groff had typed on the paper was a profane paean to Aletaha's performance. "F----in Sherz!" Groff had typed. Charmingly, he ran the auction, and got the price of the piece of signed paper up to $1,500, then shouted Sold! The audience erupted.
5/ Radcliffe asked the guy what his name was for him to sign it. And the guy shouted out, "Why don't you just give it to her," meaning Sherz Aletaha. She clamped her hand on her mouth and started to cry. The audience erupted even more wildly.
6/ It was one of the most spontaneous and beautiful acts of kindness I have ever witnessed. Radcliffe and Groff stood there applauding the generous theatergoer, and everyone there--who had just seen a masterpiece of a show already--was transported from the theater in joy. /END
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