Should I read it or not?
Thu, 29 Jan 2004, 09:49 pmcrgwllms5 posts in thread
Should I read it or not?
Thu, 29 Jan 2004, 09:49 pmReading through some of the suggestions for future polls, I came across this rather odd one.
I don't think it will be listed as an actual poll, because it seems to me to be too obscure, but I thought it might be worth discussing to find out where the idea originated...I've never heard of it.
The poll suggestion was:
SHOULD I READ IT OR NOT?
Should the last line of the script be read before opening night or not?
- Never!
- Not on purpose
- Doesn't matter
- Who really cares
- I love to say Macbeth
Seems strange to me that the most obvious option, "uh, YES" is not listed as a voting choice. So I am assuming that this is supposed to be a theatre superstition, that you should not utter the final line before the show opens?
Have to say I've never heard of this, and I've certainly never seen it observed in practice...in fact it seems to me to be a highly undesirable habit.
Can anyone (perhaps the author of the poll suggestion?) shed some light as to where this notion may have originated, and what it's meaning is? Has anyone ever actually been in a production where this was observed?
Cheers
The Poll-tergeist
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I don't think it will be listed as an actual poll, because it seems to me to be too obscure, but I thought it might be worth discussing to find out where the idea originated...I've never heard of it.
The poll suggestion was:
SHOULD I READ IT OR NOT?
Should the last line of the script be read before opening night or not?
- Never!
- Not on purpose
- Doesn't matter
- Who really cares
- I love to say Macbeth
Seems strange to me that the most obvious option, "uh, YES" is not listed as a voting choice. So I am assuming that this is supposed to be a theatre superstition, that you should not utter the final line before the show opens?
Have to say I've never heard of this, and I've certainly never seen it observed in practice...in fact it seems to me to be a highly undesirable habit.
Can anyone (perhaps the author of the poll suggestion?) shed some light as to where this notion may have originated, and what it's meaning is? Has anyone ever actually been in a production where this was observed?
Cheers
The Poll-tergeist
[%sig%]
Re: Should I read it or not?
Fri, 30 Jan 2004, 07:38 pmPantomimes usually end with all the couples who have ended up married (as is the case with all good pantos), speaking a set of rhyming couplets each, with the hero and heroine doing the last set. It is pantomime tradition for these last two lines not to be spoken until the last dress rehearsal. These lines are often directed to the audience, along the lines of "haven't you all had a good time?"