It is good luck to:
- 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.