- Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:09 pm
#207341
Hello everybody!
I was going to ask if anybody would like to wish me luck in our drama club's new show this weekend (details in website - click www below), but then I realised that it's supposed to be bad luck. So, I guess I'd better "break a leg" then eh?. Hopefully not for real though, as I did that very badly a couple of years ago, which was no fun at all.
Do any of you really smart people out there know where this superstition originated and others like it in connection with the theatre ("the Scottish Play", for example)? Another superstition we always adhere to is never saying the very last line of any play until the performance nights, or at least the dress rehearsal. For years, I did not realise how a play ended until the performance nights, unless of course I had the last line myself. What's that all about?...
Cheers! I'd better go and get ready now. Dress rehearsal tonight!!!
I was going to ask if anybody would like to wish me luck in our drama club's new show this weekend (details in website - click www below), but then I realised that it's supposed to be bad luck. So, I guess I'd better "break a leg" then eh?. Hopefully not for real though, as I did that very badly a couple of years ago, which was no fun at all.
Do any of you really smart people out there know where this superstition originated and others like it in connection with the theatre ("the Scottish Play", for example)? Another superstition we always adhere to is never saying the very last line of any play until the performance nights, or at least the dress rehearsal. For years, I did not realise how a play ended until the performance nights, unless of course I had the last line myself. What's that all about?...
Cheers! I'd better go and get ready now. Dress rehearsal tonight!!!