I didn't fall over, or blank out, the audience seemed pleased and my hotel for the night was very cool in the nice way, not the way that means I had to break out the emergency foil blanket which, yes, I do carry with me in case of nocturnal freezing.
While the final pages of his legacy remain blank, a captivated audience is eager to see how everything turns out.
There were occasional awkward moments, such as when the boys noticed a few blank stares from audience members, or when a communication lapse led one girl to miss her prom proposal.
Not for the first time, Mr. Stone assembles an arsenal of visual ideas and then fires away point-blank in his audience's direction.
He adds that, "One of the great things about what makes a Sondheim or a Gershwin or a Shakespeare great: there are blanks for the audience to fill; characters are made fuller by the play working on the audience and the audience working on the play".
Perhaps this is exactly the point that the authors of "Boone" want to make: that their hero is just the sort of blank screen that audiences in a narcissistic society fall in love with - someone who accommodates other people's fantasies while at the same time supplying an endless series of snide, David Letterman-like put-downs of other cultural icons.
Here, sexual display has been made sexless in a conspiracy between a blank-eyed tourist audience and an astute management which knows that the crowd wants sex in the same way that they want slippers from Marks & Spencer's on the Boulevard Haussmann.
It's hard not to be surprised by his demeanour, perhaps because the image of Drummond fixed in the public imagination comes from the KLF's final, triumphant performance at the 1992 Brit awards, during which he lurched around the stage on crutches, smoking a cigar and wearing a kilt, then fired a machine gun loaded with blanks at the audience and dumped a dead sheep outside the after-party.
In collaboration with Extreme Noise Terror at the February 1992 BRIT Awards, they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party.
The second was a rapper from New Jersey named Daville, who after declaring his set the opening of "Krunk Fest," proceeded to chuck full cans of beer point-blank into the audience, then ran through the crowd stealing people's joints, returned to the stage smoking four joints at once, cried, barfed, then descended into the crowd one more time to brain people with a plastic folding chair.
But what was more striking is the way that to us, their audience, the blank masks too changed in appearance.
