A Commissioner For All Seasons

INT. AUDITORIUM THEATER, CHICAGO - DAY We open backstage. A harried production assistant - MELISSA - holding a clipboard stands at attention, trying to simultaneously listen through a discreet earpiece as well as pass on instructions to a broad-shouldered, ginger-haired man. MELISSA: Okay, we're coming out of commercial...[listens]...and three...two...one...GO. [she pushes the ginger-haired