Chookas!
Thu, 21 June 2001, 07:41 amali22 posts in thread
Chookas!
Thu, 21 June 2001, 07:41 amI was at work last night (we had our first preview) and everyone was running around with the normal ritual of saying "chookas".
It suddenly occurred to me, where on earth did this saying come from? We all have theories on "Break a leg" but I've never heard one for "chookas".
Any guesses?
By the way, has anyone heard anyone use "Break a leg" lately? All I've heard for the last few years is "chookas"...
It suddenly occurred to me, where on earth did this saying come from? We all have theories on "Break a leg" but I've never heard one for "chookas".
Any guesses?
By the way, has anyone heard anyone use "Break a leg" lately? All I've heard for the last few years is "chookas"...
RE: Theatre superstition
Fri, 22 June 2001, 06:51 pmAnd while I was there the crew room was known as the forecastle
As for 'Chookas' - the whole is 'TOI TOI TOI Chookas' there is a poem which goes with it and you place your right hand on your heart three times while saying it as for good luck.
There was something else about turning around three times? - NNo!!....... that is when someone mentions the 'Scotish' play, In order to get the curse off or lifted, you turn around three times and then left the theatre and could not return untill you knocked on the door and wait to be invited back in.
I was told all this so long ago, in a previous life, I have forgotten most of it - However I have heard, from others, that David Meadows might know all about IT?
I just keep on with the superstitions, like a tradition, anyway!!!!
With break a leg - the vaudiville one is the most plauseable -
I was told this, along with a few other things, in the '60s from a vary old thespian, who I believed, because he had over 50 years on me at the time.
Joe
As for 'Chookas' - the whole is 'TOI TOI TOI Chookas' there is a poem which goes with it and you place your right hand on your heart three times while saying it as for good luck.
There was something else about turning around three times? - NNo!!....... that is when someone mentions the 'Scotish' play, In order to get the curse off or lifted, you turn around three times and then left the theatre and could not return untill you knocked on the door and wait to be invited back in.
I was told all this so long ago, in a previous life, I have forgotten most of it - However I have heard, from others, that David Meadows might know all about IT?
I just keep on with the superstitions, like a tradition, anyway!!!!
With break a leg - the vaudiville one is the most plauseable -
I was told this, along with a few other things, in the '60s from a vary old thespian, who I believed, because he had over 50 years on me at the time.
Joe
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