Bob, I remember meeting Donna at Broadway Cares in NYC back in the 1990's. I asked her if she would ever consider attending a Dark Shadows event. Her response was a very chippy Sure! I had a feeling that I would received the same answer if I had asked her to go play in traffic in the middle of I95 in the rush hour.
LOL!!!
Sometimes people are asked to attend, say I might, and that is passed along as having committed to the event when, in fact, they didn't.