A loyal reader reports seeing this blurb in the “normally staid” program book of the Los Angeles Opera:

THE FLY BREAKS UNIQUE RECORD

House management at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion reports that the lobby staff regularly sold out of binoculars for every performance of The Fly. Sales were reported to be especially brisk after the first act.

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