There were boos when his name was brought up at the dinner, staged at the Kingsmeadow stadium, home of AFC Wimbledon, and there is enough testimony in the book – "the true inside story" it promises on the front cover – to understand why, as the old youth-team manager Geoff Taylor put it, something had to be done to "clear up all this bollocks".
No matter how corny or contrived you might think it is to put a bow around your bath towels or set the dining room table all fancy though no one is coming to dinner, staging can make the difference between a home that turns fast for a great price, and one that sits.
As we enter, Leonato and his Sicilian family are eating dinner on stage; and Vicki Mortimer's revolving set with its slatted wooden walls, ideal for eavesdropping, constantly spins to reveal new facets of the household.
Irritation among Democrats at what they see as being forced to choose between supporting Israel or supporting their president boiled over into outright anger on Wednesday night as the veteran New York congressman Charles Rangel used his speech at the annual press club congressional dinner to stage a mock phone call with Netanyahu, berating him for interfering in domestic US politics.
The bar is part of the dinner and stage show, and it's the second of its kind after a place in London also called Alcoholic Architecture opened in July.
The evening begins with cocktails at 6, followed by dinner and staged dramatic readings from several of Mr. Papp's productions, performed by Elliot Gould, Bob Dishy, Susan Lucci, Kevin Kline, Tony Randall and other performers.
I could see a devoted husband, to the Yale-trained actress Kristin Flanders, and father, to 7-year-old Lucia, realize he was inadvertently neglecting them even in the increasingly rare time he's home, sitting at dinner solving staging problems in his head.
Among his early productions was a dinner-theatre staging of Guys and Dolls, in which he played Nathan Detroit.
Mr. Locke's first significant duty here is to help shepherd Mr. Biden through meetings, formal dinners and staged photo events.
So "Time of My Life," after the center-stage dinner party, shifts to one side of the stage and to the future, with various meetings between Glyn and Stephanie.
