http://superstitions.wordpress.com Searchable and entertaining, find your fears, wonders and worries here. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:01:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/64a1bf14bfc9a0262077bac30e73dcda?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://superstitions.wordpress.com http://superstitions.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/find-more-superstitions-at-httpsuperstitionsonline-com/ http://superstitions.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/find-more-superstitions-at-httpsuperstitionsonline-com/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:41 +0000 superstitions http://superstitions.wordpress.com/?p=22 ]]> http://superstitionsonline.com

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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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