Did Lincoln not want to attend the theater that night?

[BettyO]

Personally, I think Tad would have been bored with Our American Cousin. Or maybe not - and as boisterous as Tad was, I don't think that it would have been enjoyable with him possibly chattering away in the theatre box and perhaps disrupting the audience as well. Would Booth have shot Lincoln with Tad there? I'd have to say no, but then he sure had no qualms about killing the man in front of his wife!