• 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.

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.

• 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 land on their soles.
• Leave a dressing room with the left foot first.

It is bad luck to:

• 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.

• 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.”

• 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.

• 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.