741 performances without a flaw, and on the 742nd I have a seventh doorbell," she laments. Fortunately, the actors responded with aplomb: One of them got up, answered the door, and finding nobody there, shook her head in what passed for mock annoyance.

In another case of backstage mayhem, Llynn once flicked a glob of (ouch!) detergent-based stage blood into her eye as she applied the concoction to an actor waiting in the wings. Trying not to scream while she could be heard out front, she bolted out of earshot, startling cast and crew as she streaked by with "blood" streaming down her face.

(Mishap to one side, Llynn's work on that play received an unusual accolade in the form of a New York Daily News review that, taking aMatilda: A grouchy couple are parents to a very sweet girl, Matilda. Unlike her bratty brother and mean parents, Matilda becomes a very sweet and extremely intelligent 6 year old girl, who is very keen to go to school and read books. After a while, her parents send her to school with the worst principal in the world, a very sweet teacher, and good friends. While trying to put up with her parents' and principal's cruelty, she starts to unwittingly unleash telekinetic powers, destroying a television and making a newt fly onto the principal. With enough practice, Matilda starts to learn to control her telekinetic powers and soon using them on her principal so she can drive her away from the school.