Theatrical Curse Time!!

11Jul08

Hi all… On the day after opening “Rough Crossing”, I thought it would only be right to talk a little bit about the show that opens tonight, “Dark of the Moon”.  It turns out this play is also incredibly cursed, not unlike the Scottish Play.

One person, during the revival scene, had a heart attack and was carried offstage by his castmates.  The audience didn’t know anything was wrong, since it just looked like it was part of the action.  In a different production, an actor collapsed in the wings of the theatre and died shortly after the end of the show.  After hearing about these and other events surrounding the play, there are many things that seem unnecessarily dangerous.

I have a great amount of respect for theatre superstitions, not because I believe in most of them, but because sometimes there are some incredibly inexplicable events.  I have had my current theatre’s ghost slam doors in my face, I’ve had lights explode when they weren’t connected to anything (after someone naming the Scottish Play).

Tonight, I hope, will be just as successful an evening as last night.  Perhaps something will go wrong, and perhaps not.  If the crowd hates the show, so be it.  If there are set change problems, so be it.  If there are dropped lines, missed cues, slow costume changes, and set problems, then so be it.

I wish you all a lovely evening.

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