Welcome to a special edition of The Look and Sound of Leadership.

I'm Tom Henschel, and today I'm going to tell a story about the show must go on.

It's a true story of a real life theater calamity.

The story was prompted because I used the phrase the show must go on during the episode

in the episode called the executive executive, which was January 2021.

In the episode, I kind of stopped the episode

and I said, you know, whenever I use that phrase,

the show must go on, two thoughts happen simultaneously in my head one is

That that was my religion for a long time the show must go on I remember in high school performing with a raging fever. I should have been home in bad.

But the show must go on. I broke my ankle on stage. I finished the scene. The show must go on. I got whacked bad with a broadsword one night,

wow, and I pretended it didn't happen because it wasn't supposed to happen, so I just went on because the show must go on, right? That's my religion.

That's one thought that happens, and the second thought that happens at the same

instant is I was on stage one night when the show did not go on and that's the story I want to tell you. The story begins in 1980. When I was

an actor in Los Angeles, it was a Sunday night, I was sitting at home in my apartment, and the reason I remember it's a Sunday night is because I was watching the Tony Awards, which is a live broadcast from New York City, where they give out the Tony Awards on Broadway. The Tony Awards in the United States

are the equivalent to Broadway

to the Oscars are in Hollywood.

I had a local interest in the Tony Awards this year because a play that had originated

in Los Angeles at a theater where I had worked many times the Mark Taper

Forum they had sent a play from there to New York where plays usually go to die

and it had become a big hit. It was nominated for four Tony Awards. best playwright, best director, best actress, best

actor.

Wow!

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