In a story of September 6 about the English actor Jude Law, who will soon appear as Hamlet on Broadway, the Arts and Leisure section of The New York Times reported that on opening night in Elsinore Castle, Frederik, “the real-life perfectly sane Crown Prince of Denmark” was in the audience.
Readers are invited to suggest names of persons of consequence who have a relation to a character on stage whose presence in the audience would engage the attention of performers, critics or, for that matter, the audience of any play or opera you know.
Examples:
- President Obama in Othello
- Netanyahu in The Merchant of Venice
- Charles, Prince of Wales, in Henry IVth
- The Duke of Mantua (if such a person exists) in Rigoletto
- The Devil in Faust
- Bernie Madoff in The Threepenny Opera
The names of winners will be proclaimed to the cyberworld.
Eric Koch’s book, The Weimar Triangle, is available at Indigo-Chapters and in your local bookstore. 
Eric, the last Duke of Mantua died in 1708.
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Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot.
Anyway, as Peter says, thanks for watching. Kealy!
Nicholas Sarkozy in Private Lives. (Noel Coward)
Totally superb!!!!
Rudy Guiliani et al in Easy Virtue (Noel Coward)
Wayne Gretzky in The Iceman Cometh
Brilliant!
margaret atwood in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
david miller in Our Town
gary doer in Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Magnificent!
I herewith declare YOU the winner!