"No one had a problem with that performance, everything was fine, and everyone from the curators on supported it," said Ali, who is also a professor at Trinity College in Connecticut.
The toys were distributed during a performance of "Everything is Awesome" from The Lego Movie, which was nominated for best song.
The characters, music, performances, themes: everything is perfect and so overwhelming and so rich in details.
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw is less impressed: "There are some nice-ish performances but everything is just so boring," he writes.
He was 19 when it happened, and he learnt that control of everything -money, styling, album cover design, performance - everything was crucial.
There had been worries that compensation would only track performance when everything was rising, says Ira Kay of Watson Wyatt, a consultancy.
In its fast-paced, total theatre mix of music, film and literally explosive performance, not everything was always comprehensible, but that didn't really matter.
Thirteen year-old Astghik, a resident of Eraskh village, watching attentively the performance, says everything was new to her. "We couldn't even imagine where the danger could come from and what risk we have been taking every day.
But in a Wooster performance nothing is hidden; everything is open to view.
And he understands this about the business that he's called home for nearly half a century now: in the theatre, everything is performance and renewed hope — even for the critics.
