The play's the thing! Except when President Obama and the First Lady show up. Some of the loudest applause at "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Saturday night was for the First Couple, who received a five-minute standing ovation from before the show.
"We had no idea he was going to be here," Maisha McGill, 28, said. "We were really lucky to come tonight. People were standing on top of their chairs clapping for him."
The show finally started more than 45 minutes late at 8:47 while employees flickered the lights on and off in an attempt to calm down the clapping audience.
The Obamas had arrived shortly before curtain time and theatergoers who crowded the sidewalk were delayed by heavy security.
Nobody seemed to mind.
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