Mike Daisy and his traveling pants: An eyewitness steps forward.

Mike Daisey:  "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs"
and a tortured relationship with facts.

Since Mike Daisy has been forced to admit that many of the facts of his theatrical expose of Apple were in fact not facts, that he had not traveled to the provinces he'd claimed, former audience members have suggested they had suspicions earlier.

Today, however, one person stepped forward with more dramatic story:
"I knew he wasn't telling the truth when I saw him at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, because right in the middle of the monologue he stood up and the back of his pants caught on fire.  Stage hands rushed forward to put out the fire, and Daisy wasn't seriously hurt, but his ass was probably about as red as his face is today."

"It's all true," the audience member added emphatically.  "At least it's an essential truth.  I'm planning a stage show about it next month.  The Fiery Truth of Mike Daisy."

Photo is from New York Times Theatre Talkback, in which Charles Isherwood worries that Daisy's dilemma will harm the theatre memoir genre.  Here's the link:  http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/theater-talkback-mike-daisey-continued/?hp