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Untitled[edit]

The word "relict" refers to natural phenomena. "Relic" refers to human creations (and human remains), including cultural relics. The term "break a leg" is a creation of human culture, so I changed the spelling from relict to relic. Kafziel 16:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly needs to be cleaned up? --Eyrian 06:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flowers and mirrors[edit]

I've removed this...

No live flowers or mirrors on stage. This is pure practicality; flowers will wilt under stage lights, and mirrors will reflect stage lights at the audience if the set is not designed with extreme care. (The musical A Chorus Line has a famous mirror scene; it can be done.)

... because it doesn't seem to be a superstition at all. Using either of these things is just a bad idea. ~ Booyabazooka 23:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Live flowers are definately a susperstition. I'll try and find a source. Bryson430 17:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The flower part is hard to fathom -- have been in many productions with live flowers -- stage lights do no worse to them than little ol me in fact they probably stand up better. Shiny things (mirrors, prisms, crystals - sequins etc)that are mobile (ie on the actor or other things that move around ) are a distraction to the audience especially in scenes where you do not want to loose focus on a scene or dialogue that is going on. That is not to say that mirrors are never used -- especially in set pieces etc -- in one particular play however I remember the director fussing with a mirror that was staionary on a set because it caught some stage lighting and was a noticible distraction , I think they dulled the reflection with some weak white paint or something of that nature beleive it or not.138.163.0.44 (talk) 19:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

learning via osmosis[edit]

there is the acting superstition that puting a script under your pillow at night will help you after practicing the script so you learn it, its is sometimes refered to as "learning the script via osmosis" --voodoom 02:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's not so much a superstition as desperation! 31.51.132.195 (talk) 14:58, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Limelight[edit]

Limelight is not green. It's white. The "lime" in it merely refers to the use of lime (calcium oxide) in the lighting which can be heated to white heat without melting. I will remove that part of the article. —BassBone (my talk · my contributions) 19:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chookas[edit]

hey, why didn't someone put this one up? I forgot where it was taken from.. DomDomsta333 12:04, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Care to elaborate? I have no idea what you're on about. Bryson430 12:34, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

chookas is a word used for good luck.. like break a leg but with a different meaningDomsta333 13:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Which country is that in? Australia? Bryson430 17:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion: under Charles Schultz reference[edit]

What's this business about Santa Rosa being the home of a summer stock company called SRT? What does that have to do with this article? --J.Rai (talk) 00:29, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Entirely agree. No idea what it's doing in this article. Bryson430 (talk) 04:57, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dover Bay Theater[edit]

I find no reference online to the ghosts in the Dover Bay Theater. Could someone please cite a source if it exists?

JamesJNHu (talk) 03:56, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Chinese Opera Theater Superstitions[edit]

Needs a section here.

~~Ed~~ 2607:FEA8:4A2:4100:2176:A766:F475:203 (talk) 03:16, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]