She has no "ringing" telephone in her home, she said.
There was no word whether this 3 a.m. ringing telephone will surface in a television ad.
As for why the incessantly ringing telephone is not picked up until the bitter end of the play, that's easy.
"We just bought a building, too," Ms. Greenwood said, as a sporadically ringing telephone beside her went unanswered.
But walk into Mr. Song Millinery on Woodward Avenue, north of downtown, and you are hit by two impressions: a riot of color and a constantly ringing telephone.
He is discomfited by disturbances like a suddenly ringing telephone, a last-minute change of plans or a friend's unexpected visit.
Excited cries came from the back of the store as Mrs. Frankel's brother, Shua Hecht, 24, answered the constantly ringing telephone, responding to people placing orders or checking when their Shabbos flowers would arrive.
Outfitted with a single desk, a chair and a constantly ringing telephone, it sits in the center of a single-story, concrete-slab office complex directly off the Garden State Parkway.
The original orchestra is best known for the tune 'Telephone and Rubber Band', composed around the sound of an engaged and ringing telephone, or 'Music for a Found Harmonium', used in the film Napoleon Dynamite.
Another dorm resident, Amanda Schroder, 18, of Dumont, N.J., woke up at 6 30 a.m., two hours after the fire started, when she could no longer ignore the ringing telephone.
"For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood while for men it's just not as critical," says Tannen, by now so engrossed in conversation that she turns on her answering machine to catch her constantly ringing telephone.
