Dunn noticed Robin offstage: “He was standing by the piano, and he had a baton in his hand, like a drum major’s baton, and he began talking to it. And it began talking back.” For what felt like twenty minutes, Dunn said, Robin and the baton conversed, kidded, and argued with each other—with Robin providing both of the voices of course, and a crowd of actors and crew members supplying a grateful audience. When Dunn at last got home at two a.m., he woke up his wife to tell her, “I saw a young man do something tonight that I have never seen before. And this kid is going to go somewhere.”
