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It was an auditorium almost the same as this, you know, at Coven Garden at the Royal Opera House and she was in the
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royal box say up there somewhere and she was sitting with Prince Charles. I was in the wings over there and at a certain
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point I said now to her and she got up and moved quietly away and he was still looking at the stage think she's
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probably gone to the L or something. Anyway, I came out onto the stage. This music started Billy Joe's Uptown
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Girl and I did these big jumps and things which they were applauding and everything. I thought you wait, you just
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wait because nobody knew. And I finished and they were still clapping. And I went
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bubba and she walked out for eight counts like this and then stopped, looked at the audience beautifully. And
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there was a gasp from the audience of 2,500 people who took an intake of breath all at the same time. They were
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speechless. They went and she was on fire. I mean, she took it, embraced as if she'd been doing it for hundreds of
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years. And then we did a sort of upmanship thing. I'd do a pirouette like that. She'd push me down like that, then
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kick over my leg like that and walk away like that. You see? Then she'd do something, a jazz turn or one of these
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things. And I'd look at her and I go, "All right, go on then." And not do anything. And then I got to the corner
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over here of the stage and I lifted her with one hand under her leg here. She did a layout
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like that, holding on to my shoulder and was laughing as I ran across the stage.
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And the finale bit was kicks, of course, a kick line. I took a hand like this and
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we did and that was the finish of the dance. We did a puette and I bowed to her and it they just went absolutely
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wild. And then we came on the first curtain call, second, they wouldn't stop. Eight curtain calls later and I
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said, "You have to p bow to the royal box." And she said, "I'm not bowing to him. He's my hobby." All under our
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breath, you see. And so I made a turn and bow and we ran off. And she said, "Let's do it again. Let's do it again."
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So they wouldn't let us go. And I said, "No, leave them wanting more.