One Saturday morning while Neville was shaving, his wife told him his friend David was on the phone needing urgent help: the elaborate long hairpiece the soprano needed for the Magi scene in David's UCLA show had gone missing, and no one could find it anywhere. Neville, listening only briefly, heard David say he had found it and went back to shaving; later that day David called again to confirm it, and that night's performance went ahead to a packed house that turned away 250 to 300 people from the 540-seat theater.