Thank you for the advice. This will be my only opportunity to see Gale so I feel as if I should try. Sharpies have been my good friends since my days in the field as an archaeologist and they're still proving useful. Excellent point about playbill colors; guess I'll be packing silver as well as black Sharpies.

Tongue-tied will definitely be a problem for me. Embarrassing and pathetic but true. Perhaps if I practice, "Thank you, I enjoyed your performance," I won't embarrass myself? At least, until I accidentally say it to a stagehand. ;-)

I'm certain I will have an excellent time in NYC, even if I don't get Gale's or Blythe's sig. The city is energizing, the architecture is fabulous, and the museums leave me a happy, happy girl no matter what. Gale and Blythe are the icing.