He was answered by a polite cheer.
Many of the lesser-known players — like Bob Bolin and Reid Nichols — received polite cheers, but stars like Mo Vaughn and Jim Lonborg heard loud ovations.
Despite the more than merely polite cheers which greeted the final curtain, and which might have persuaded her that, just possibly, she had a success on her hands, within hours Weir was beaten black and blue by a scrum of negative opinion.
"There was a debate in New Hampshire in which they said be polite, no cheering, no booing, and nobody minded," said Gwen Ifill, the PBS correspondent and moderator of two vice presidential debates.
Polite good cheer sees him past an apparently apathetic doorman when he enters a building for a class appointment and encounters double stairs in the foyer.
But in oil-friendly Alaska, the pitch drew a mixed response of cheers, polite applause and a smattering of boos.
The MC's exhortation for the crowd to bellow their enjoyment in order to show the rest of the world "what lively, enthusiastic people we are" elicited a polite but lukewarm cheer.
Images and sounds were being manipulated by Mats Küssner, the Royal College's's research associate in performance science, who demonstrated how he could press buttons to produce coughs and sneezes, as well as different levels of reaction, from polite applause to cheers.
While the Fijian was greeted with polite applause, Woods was cheered to the tree tops.
A festival on Regent Street prior to each International Series game regularly attracts huge crowds, and almost every game at Wembley has sold out, though one observer say fans tend to cheer with "polite applause" as opposed to the blown out vocal cords that goes with NFL crowds in the US.
