Accepting a lifetime achievement award at the 1998 Emmys, Rogers requested of the audience what he requested at every speaking engagement: "All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.
On the post-Money in the Bank episode of Raw, on 30 June, a role reversal occurred when a returning AJ Lee quickly defeated Paige in a title match to regain the Divas Championship, in which Paige was initially reluctant to face AJ but agreed to the match per request of the live audience.
He then admitted that Greece could minimise the coercive nature of its prayers by moving them earlier in the proceedings and asking clergy not to request the "physical participation" of the audience.
A piano was wheeled to center stage, and Lang rehearsed "The Yellow River Concerto," which he plays constantly at the request of Chinese audiences, and the Grieg Piano Concerto, a warhorse of a different breed.
The pianist, following a request from a member of the audience, played "Zip-a-dee doo-dah', composed by a member of ASCAP, another collecting society.
"And now a request from the audience".
And the agreement was that each song would be requested by a member of the audience willing to pay really big bucks to hear her sing it live.
Amid a stream of shouted requests from the audience, Neil leaned into the microphone and wearily said, "It's all the same song".
Some of the same anguish inflected a medley of Gershwin songs requested by the audience at Thursday's preview performance.
That may seem a large request of an audience that has been raised on the visual entertainment of television and computer games.
