April 2013
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flurry-of-dancing-awesome asked: I'm sorry if this is really obvious but where is the submit?
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March 2013
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Anonymous asked: so whoever commented on the scottish play and the dental/hand emergencies...we're totally part of the same company. no joke. double crossed forever.
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Anonymous asked: I had completely forgotten the existence of Spider-Man the Musical but yes I remember all that happened now, thanks
Anonymous asked: my two cents on the 'scottish play' thing - it was said two times on opening night of my last hs show and two awful things happened. a fly got ripped and a pole fell out, smashing a stage hand's teeth and sending him to an emergency dentist. the chandelier started free-falling and a stage hand had to grab the rope with his bare hands, sending him to the hospital with burns. so yeah,...
katherinegryffindor asked: hahahaha i'm loving this whole scottish play discussion happening on my dash. personally, I'm not the slightest bit superstitious in my personal life (i've broken mirrors without any issue or worry and those 8 years have passed) but when it comes to theater stuff i never wanna risk freaking out someone who IS superstitious and I feel like all our traditions are really fun and...
Anonymous asked: Speaking of superstitions, we had one at my old theatre. There was always bad luck when the SM wore socks with smiley faces on them. Always. The rain wouldn't start on Singin In The Rain, we broke the set on Hedda Gabbler. Friend of mine hurt his back on Down The Main Drag. Always when that same girl was SM, and always when she wore smiley socks.
Anonymous asked: Excuse my ignorance but what is the Arachnid Musical? Kiss of the Spider Woman? Something else?
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Anonymous asked: Personally I think it's becoming a little more unlucky to speak the name of the Arachnid Musical than the Scottish Play.
penguinsayseep asked: I said Macbeth on accident in the theatre and we forgot the props and ran the first half of the dress rehearsal without them and then a light circuit failed and fell off. NOT FUN
masterblasterofdisaster asked: I used to think the whole 'Scottish play' thing was a silly superstition until I said it before a performance of Is He Dead.... The fire alarm went off mid-performance and we had to stand outside in period costumes in the snow for 45min until it was shut off!!!! I swore I'd never make that mistake again!!
melefim asked: My college put on 'The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)' a few years ago, and when they do Macbeth in the play, the actors said it- and on opening night, of the 3 actors, one did the entire second act with a concussion, and another broke his elbow in the last scene. We had to postpone the final two performances for a few months, and for those they mentioned what had happened and...
cozcat asked: I've heard that the curse is because struggling theatres would put it on to draw a crowd. This wasn't showing theatres as sellouts - but as they were struggling, many would shut down, and so the play would be their last show, making it seem unlucky to perform, and later, unlucky to say.
goodbyeomelas asked: In case of saying the name of the Scottish play, you can undo it by locking the offender out of the theater until they turn around three times clockwise and spit, or making them quote Hamlet. It's always worked for us!
Anonymous asked: It's not the Scottish play, but one show in high school my parents and about half the parents sent us 'good luck' texts. It was the worst performance ever. Half the actors missed cues and we broke a $300 lamp on my side of the stage.
savemyplaceillbethere asked: I would have had a full on panic attack if that director was mine. Without a doubt.
the-heart-has-eyes asked: When I attended Highschool I had so many awful situations with the Scottish play. I've watched a lead actress fly into the set during Peter Pan, another lead actor who go stepped on, lights have gone out, mics fail. And it always happens when some kid decides it'll be funny to say the name of the play backstage. The weirdest experience I ever had with it though was during class, we were...
inconsolablesecrets asked: I'd just like to add that on stage before a show, my completely non-superstitious director said, "Well, it's not like we're doing Macbeth here guys, so GOOD LUCK." It went great so I don't hold to the superstitions. Maybe they just canceled each other out though?
vitadarte asked: During a performance of Macbeth I was in, we lots of conversations about the curse. One theory is that Shakespeare used actual incantations for the Witches' scenes and therefore a real curse is put on the theatre and the production whenever it is performed.
Anonymous asked: Hi I wanted to add something to your response about the Scottish play. The witches were said to have cursed the show because the potion the hags make in act IV scene I was supposedly a real witches brew that Shakespeare had stolen from them.
onslaughtofimagery asked: Just a quick FYI about the Shakespeare! Yes, Macbeth is said to be cursed because there've been numerous accidents during productions. It's rumored that on the opening night of Macbeth, Shakespeare himself had to play one of the characters because the actor got sick and died. And in another production, one of the actors replaced his stage knife with a real one and actually killed his...
talesofalife asked: My understanding of the Macbeth story is that once upon a time, Macbeth was considered something of a copout production. Theaters performed it in order to insure a good turn out. In short, crappy theaters did the show to pull a crowd, so saying the name would insinuate that your theatre is a sell out and thus bring bad luck etc etc
Anonymous asked: I get so upset when people say Macbeth, ESPECIALLY before a performance. Some girl who was doing tech. for our musical said it opening night, and our brand new sound system wouldn't work. Whether you're superstitious or not, JUST DON'T SAY IT.
Anonymous asked: about macbeth, i've always heard that it's because so many actors were injured in the original show that it's said to have a curse on it. i know it's weird but one night we had a jokester in our cast who said macbeth about 50 times before our performance and the show was awful. everyone forgot their lines and there were tech problems and some of the set pieces fell
melissamelody asked: By the way, even if I am involved in drama things, I don't understand the "MacBeth" being bad luck reference? Could you please explain this to me?
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