In Which Our Cakes Take A Theatrical Turn

Sometimes, when you don’t know people, it’s good to present them with a gift the first time you meet with them. This makes them feel slightly awkward and uncomfortable, which will increase your confidence. It’s especially good if you give them a very personalized gift which clearly took a lot of effort. This makes them scared of you in a ‘Swimfan/Stalker’ type way, which means that they will compliment you incessantly in the hopes of never seeing you again, or they will be very willing to acquiesce to any of your demands, in the hopes of placating you and not sending you into one of your ‘Hulk-like black moods’. And if the gift is edible, all the better. This will force them to have their hands full so as to enable you to hug them without resistance, and causes them to have to eat in front of you, which gives you all the power.

Well, that’s what we did with the Toronto cast of Altar Boyz, anyway.



Note the fear in their eyes.



It’s really all just common sense.

Note: Ok, so really Max’s brother is the guitarist in this hit theatrical production, and so the offering was presented as just a nice (and delicious) gesture. However, Max sat through the production regularly thinking about how she might have terrified the entire cast and crew with what surely appeared as obsessive love, showing up for the first time with a cake, a knife, and a demonic gleam in her eyes. Next stop, Broadway! Watch out, cast of West Side Story.