Superstitions Online » plays http://superstitionsonline.com Spells, charms, rituals, taboos; Searchable and entertaining, find your fears, wonders and worries here. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:21:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Actors: general bad luck omens http://superstitionsonline.com/2009/10/actors-general-bad-luck-omens/ http://superstitionsonline.com/2009/10/actors-general-bad-luck-omens/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:15:49 +0000 Superstitions http://superstitionsonline.com/?p=23 It is bad luck to:

  • Quote Macbeth.
  • Sing or hum Three Blind Mice or I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (the tune from The Bohemian Girl).
  • Whistle.
  • Wear peacock feathers.
  • Have a play open on a Friday.
  • Perform Macbeth, Robin Hood, and Babes in the Wood.
  • Have visitors enter dressingrooms with their left feet first.
  • Open a play on the thirteenth of the month.
  • Have anything yellow, green or blue.
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  • Have real flowers on stage.
  • Catch part of your costume on entering the scene.
  • Have a picture of an ostrich on stage.
  • Use real food, drink, or jewelry on stage.
  • Open an umbrella on stage.
  • Have a cat on stage.
  • Use the words “turkey” and “bomb.”
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  • Receive a bouquet at the stage door before the play begins.
  • Have loops in a drop curtain
  • Look at the audience from the wrong side of the drop curtain when it is down.
  • Knit on or beside the stage.
  • Quote the last word of a forthcoming play.
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  • Carry a makeup box.
  • Upset a makeup box.
  • Use a new set of greasepaint on opening night.
  • Clean a makeup box.
  • Have an actor look over your shoulder while you are making up.
  • Leave a piece of soap behind that you have been using on tour.
  • Have pictures in the dressing room.
  • Kick off your shoes and have them fall over rather than land on their soles.
  • Put shoes on a chair in the dressing room.
  • Leave a dressing room with the right foot first.
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  • Wear a wig.
  • Find a piece of cotton on another actor and wind it around your finger
  • Perform Cinderella.
  • Have a hunchback in the company.
  • Have visitors enter dressing rooms with their right feet first.
  • Drink champagne on opening night.
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  • Have shoes that squeak when making your first stage entrance.
  • Trip on entering the scene on the opening night of a play.
  • Fall during the play.
  • Say “shit” or “merde” once during a performance.
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  • Throw a piece of coal into the gallery from the stage.
  • Be pinched.
  • Have someone wish you “break a leg!” before the performance.
  • Have a bad rehearsal.
  • Start a performance thirteen minutes late.
  • Have a cat backstage.
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  • Have telegrams on the dressing room walls.
  • Have dolls and other mascots in the dressing room.
  • Dance on accidentally dropped powder.
  • Accidentally smear lipstick on your teeth when putting makeup on for a play.
  • Keep a lucky rabbit’s foot in the makeup box.
  • Kick off a pair of shoes and have them lad on their soles.
  • Leave a dressing room with the left foot first.
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