Monday Morning Quarterbacking -- the last-minute replacement

I think at least a small part of what had me responding so positively to Thai Yum was that it was a last-minute replacement for another restaurant that turned out to be closed on the night I came to review it.

Serendipity, right?

I tried to be conscious of that as I was writing the review, just as I try to be when something goes haywire on a review.

Meanwhile, let's divert each other with a list of famous last minute stand-in, substitutes, and last-minute replacements -- in the theater, on the playing field, at the conductor's podium.

Was anyone ever in the audience for one of these legendary nights?

Baltimore Sun Staff/Kenneth K. Lam