[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Nov 11 2004, 12:17 AM\'][quote name=\'vtown7\' date=\'Nov 10 2004, 07:19 PM\']
In one of the later tournaments (maybe the 9th one?), I think I even hear Dick saying to someone as they're going to commercial after the big win, "You can't do that! This is a television show!" This experience may have caused them to do away with the "audience participation."
IIRC, that's because someone wanted an autograph, no?
Ryan
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It's easy to believe John Davidson never had to worry about that problem.
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Supposedly, when Davidson was touring in a revival of "State Fair" only a couple of years after "Pyramid" (playing the father and doing a pretty good job, if I should say so), the bio in the program said that he would be in the lobby after the show to sign autographs. Not the day I saw it, but perhaps other days (and since I believe he owned a theater in Branson, Missouri for a while, you best believe he was signing autographs there).
Of course, standing behind a table is not standing behind the Winner's Circle--and musical theater is something more in his true element than hosting game shows.