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"The opera ghost welcomes you to his opera house and demands you leave box 5 free for his use"
One thing I like to point out to friends - in Hamilton, his life is going fine until he mentions Macbeth in Take a Break, and immediately after Take a Break is Say No To This, which leads to things going downhill for him
That's what I just thought!
Actually it's just the name of the play you can't mention, but you can mention the character's name Macbeth. Hamilton specifically makes sure he never mentions the play but he does say Macbeth's name, which is fine 😊
yessss
I actually saw someone post on Twitter about Hamilton saying "without me having to name the play" and then saying Macbeth in literally the next line and Lin chimed in with this point, Oswin
Also doesn't Phillip whistle in the theatre efore he approaches Lee?
Stage manager here! I do buy the "bad dress means a good run" superstition, but not that you NEED a bad dress in order to have a good run. In my experience, after a bad dress actors are always keen to make sure it doesn't happen again, and sometimes enough to avoid the second show slump!
"You fell off stage and you caught fire but tonight's gonna be great!" Ollie is genuinely hilarious
I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious
Ollie mumbling "I'm a genius" as Carrie read the mirror tech issues sent me😂😂
fun fact: I was once in a show at the Princess’ Theatre in Melbourne, Australia and a tradition at that theatre is to leave a spare seat for the theatre ghost every opening night of whichever show is playing there. Frederick Federici was the ghost’s name and he was a performer there in the 1800’s who died on stage on opening night by having a heart attack as he fell through the trap door at the end of the show. We were told leaving a spare seat was to bring good luck and if he was sighted, he would usually appear in the second or third row of the dress circle with a frown on his face, critiquing the actors on stage 😂. There wasn’t a sighting when I was there (however if there was I don’t think they would have told us kids because we all got freaked out at the initial thought of a ghost in the theatre). So yes, that superstition of leaving a spare seat on opening night is true at the Princess’ Theatre. 💛
The second one is the entire basis of Phantom of the Opera 😂
When a seat is not left unoccupied, a strange tenor in a mask will abduct a soprano from the ensemble and demand she be the star or else 😂
I could've sworn I read years ago that you said break a leg to confuse mischievous theatre fairies who would do the opposite of what you wanted
Wow, I only knew the Macbeth and the "Break a leg" ones
In Italy
- You shouldn't wear purple on stage because is the colour of the liturgical vestments used in Lent and in the Middle Ages theatrical performances were prohibited.
- If the script falls on the floor, you have to bang it on the floor for 3 times
- To wish luck, before any show, the actors gather in a circle and hold hands and say "Merda, merda, merda" which means shit, shit shit 😂 And it's related when people went to theatre in horse-drawn carriages: if there were a lot of horses (and their poop 😂😂) , it meant the theater was full so the show was a success.
haha that's great! do you know where the script one comes from?
@@HelenRosemarySmith I have no idea 😂 I've learnt this fact while doing a musical course. Also, you have to bang the script on the floor exactly where it fell down.
@@hiilary7194 haha sounds like you have to hope you don't drop your script during a quiet moment 😂
The "merda" thing is similar to a tradition among dancers where they say "merde" (the French counterpart) instead of "good luck."
Totally didn't get distracted by Edgar licking his little paws in the background aww
What I heard with break a leg is that the thing that they wind to open a curtain is called a leg and that the cast would have so many encores that the leg would break with the curtain being open and closed so much
I never used to believe the Macbeth superstition but my drama teacher would freak out whenever someone said it. We were doing a play with a lot of complex lighting queues and someone thought it would be funny to whisper “Macbeth” backstage on opening night. About 5 minutes after she said it, ONE OF THE LIGHTS EXPLODED! Literally exploded and glass went everywhere! Now I 100% believe it.
Ollie, I love the long hair. Don’t listen to the haters, embrace your inner Jonathan Van Ness
I swear every theatre has a ghost story, my local one had someone called alice jumped off the balcony
I think it is just because most of them are all really old buildings.
Bradford Playhouse??
have a great saturday everyone! if you go to a pub or restaurant today stay safe 💙
Throughout lockdown my drama teacher has been spamming the Google classroom with pretty much every superstition in the theatre to ever exist😂
Absolutely loved this video, fascinating to hear them all. Loved the whistle one the best though!
The origin I heard for break a leg is similar to Ollies - the audience love the show so much that they want an encore so curtains will open and close a lot for the encores causing the curtain leg to break. So it’s like saying have a such a great show that the audience will want an encore
I went on the London Palladium back stage tour and they said that Break a leg came from in olden times when a long strip of wood ran along the bottom of the curtain. If the show was good the curtain would be raised and lowered so much for bows that it would eventually break the wood and it would have to be replaced
I like your hair how it is! Grow it out while you can before you have to cut it off for some sort of theatre related thing!
I don’t feel like a bad dress = a good show, but for me if I have a bad dress where lots of things go wrong, I am more conscious in the first show to make sure that things don’t go wrong again. So I think it’s just a psychological thing haha
When I was in a Classics course in college, I was told in ancient Greek theater there was a tradition of leaving a seat open for Dionysus (Greek God of Wine and Theater) to honor him during each of the performances, so that could be another origin of that superstition.
The whistling thing happens in Anne with an E!! When they have their Christmas production in Season 2 and Gilbert and Bash are the techies and there's an accidental/misunderstood whistle and Bash drops the prop down on Billy's head!
Love that in Hamilton he says Macbeth but because he’s referring to the character and not the play it’s not bad luck.
I heard that the break a leg one was because some spirits would hear what you say and make the opposite thing happen, so if you said good luck you’d get bad luck, so you’d have to say something bad like “break a leg” in order to get good luck. It’s cool how many different origins there are, also I hadn’t heard of some of these and they’re so interesting :)
I was told that 'break a leg' came from the fact that most stages were raked (the audience was flat, but the stage was at a steep angle so that everyone could see), making it really easy for actors to injure themselves. By saying 'break a leg', you would trick spirits into not hurting the actors in a reverse psychology kind of way.
I think it’s nice to carry on the history and tradition of superstitions. Adds an extra element of excitement and mystery to the theatre experience. Love it! 💜
Obsessed with oils hair... IN A GOOD WAY 😂😂
I did my first serious home self-haircut today. It didn't go as well as I'd hoped. LOL.
At a high school I did theatre at (it was an all boys school so any girl could audition), our superstition/tradition was tape ball. Each member of the cast and crew had to pull on duct tape which was made into a ball and we had to throw it into the rafters or else the show would go wrong. It started to honor a kid who essentially saved a show because he kept a lot of duct tape in his car. The gym/auditorium used to be where the stage was and there was no A/C. During a summer performance of Godspell, the set started falling apart because of the heat, so the actors ended up duct taping it back together while the show was still going.
I did panto a few times (only AmDram level) but we would always bring a ghost light on stage and leave it there overnight! We’d also leave the ‘green room’ door open overnight because it was home to a big, very old piano (The centre used to be an old Victorian school so it was full of history) So the ‘ghosts’ would be free to play😮
Oli your hair is cool as! Don’t worry about it!
Good morning!
Rumour has it that whistling was used to signal cues because a lot of ex sailors worked in theatre and were used to communicating that way on ship
Peacock feathers! A lot of directors will not allow peacock feathers on stage (even though some designers love them, esp for millinery). It is thought that the feather is the 3rd eye. Apparently this spread and some people won't allow them in their homes.
I heard about the whistling, but i was told 2 stories. First the one Carrie read and then this: usually if a pipe behind or below the stage had a leak and gas would come out, it would "whistle". And since it is really dangerous if gas is leaking, you could worry cast & crew by your whistling!
good morning !! 💕
Apparently at Drury Lane they leave a seat or two free for ghosts and also at the Palace I believe.
I'm very dubious of 'break a leg', the first time someone said it to me I slipped over on the yellow brick road and broke my arm!
Also interestingly, in operas, singers say 'toi toi toi' instead of 'good luck' which apparently is something to do with warding off evil spirits
At my local Shakespearean company (it's outdoors) I volunteer as an usher and the hill manager (The guy in charge of the ushers) said Macbeth the day before a rainstorm happend. The night of the rainstorm something happend to the lights and they needed to pull the show for three nights.
I 100% believe in Macbeth! I work at a theatre and one night i was placed on a bar shift while we had rocky horror. My supervisor was joking around and said Macbeth.... then we hear a call through the radios saying a pipe has burst. half an hour later the bar i was working in had flooded and we were in wellie boots getting every item and stock out of the bar.
The "break the leg" one is my favorite. Just because it is not totally clear where it comes from. In German we say "Hals- und Beinbruch" which means something like "break your neck and your leg".
I work in a theatre and our techies are pretty convinced we have a ghost (even though the building is only 20 years old). We keep house seats free for logistics and I've never heard the two things mentioned in conjunction but I wonder if that's where the superstition comes from... I can imagine customers being on board with that a lot more than "health and safety" where there's only 1 seat left and they have a party of 3 that want to sit together.
I was in a production of Guys and Doll last year and we were about halfway through one of our tech runs when the girl playing Nicely Nicely decided it would be funny to say the Scottish play. There were like 3 people who heard her so this wasn't like we thought things would go wrong so they did go wrong, because we didn't find out until intermission she had said it. So near the end of act 1, we had a light almost fall on someone (don't worry it wasn't a big light), one of the mission band's drums broke, Nathan's mic completely stopped working, and the wrong song was played during a dance. Then Nicely Nicely went missing and we had to run around the theatre trying to find her so we could get her to undo it and also so we could start act 2.
As a horse rider, I’m superstitious... we have odd superstitions, some are:
1. It’s considered bad luck to rename an already named horse.
2. If you wear new equipment while riding (new hat, jodhpurs, etc) it’s known that you are possibly more likely to fall off to ‘christen’ them.
3. If you keep your horses shoes, don’t hang them upside down... it must be in the U shape to keep the luck in.
'Don't bring in Brian too soon' should be a new superstition
In drama class we were doing some scenes from Macbeth, and two girls hurt their legs (not in class, but it meant we had to change things around a bit at short notice), one girl wasn't able to come because she was quarrantining, and then the day before we were performing it Ireland went into lockdown. It wasn't in a theatre, but my teacher was sure it was the whole Macbeth thing.
please say "Another day, Another destiny" on the last one
"I am not superstitious, but I am a little stitious." ~Michael Scott
I said Macbeth on accident before my last performance of Fiddler on the Roof, and as I ran offstage to quick change into "Anatevka", the last scene (I was the ballet soloist), I couldn't see and there were too many people in the wings, so I ran into the wheelbarrow and had a huge bruise on my shin for weeks.
A variation of the seat superstition is that you have to leave the theatre closed one night a week to allow the ghosts to perform/dance freely (I think this is normally for things like a ballet performance though) but I reckon that was made up by performers so they'd actually get a day off which is fair enough
There’s one superstition i think is fun that it’s good luck to have a black cat watch from (iir) stage right, but should the cat cross the stage that’s bad luck. I love weird theatre superstitions.
I once heard that 'break a leg' was said by the understudy to the principal, because if they got injured the understudy would get to work 😂 but I feel like that has just been made up around the phrase, rather than steaming from practical reasons like "the leg if the curtain"
I love the long hair and wee top knot
I have heard of a few theaters that normally have a box seat especially saved for them.
Boxes are expensive and so usually not sold out.
Just like the Royal box is kept free the ones usually either side are too.
Now I wonder if that is for the theatre spirits or a good excuse for security?👐🤴👸👻🤗
*The Phantom of the Opera wants to know your location*
My theater at college always had a seat, it was known as Banquo’s chair and no one sat in it. We were doing a production of the Fantasticks and the new director who didn’t know sat in it and the female lead got really sick with no understudy...it was really weird
I would love to hear any supernatural stories you both have had especially revolving around theatre!
Great video! As a Spaniard, I love when Ollie says random words in Spanish. If you're learning Spanish Ollie... keep up the good work!
The bad dress thing is true in am dram. I've never been in a show that didn't have a bad dress because we are less rehearsed than pros and, generally, not as good at it all as you guys so plenty would go wrong but we would have it together by opening night.
Oliver’s hair looks good
Back in secondary school one of my friends was cast the leading role in the school play, and usually when we have school plays everyone gets the chance to see the final dress rehearsal. That same day I told some of my friends the Macbeth superstition so someone tried whispering it during the performance. They swear that every time they said it they could see a prop fall over or not work
The superstition of whistling comes from when theatres were run by sailers (backstage wise) (hence all the rigging etc.) and their communication between each other was whistling.
I always heard the scottish play thing came about because with all the action and the kind of sets used in the play people often got hurt and so it became seen as bad luck to say the name. You are only allowed to say it if you are on stage preforming the show. Some people say it's only bad luck within the walls of a theatre, some say it's bad luck anytime. I'm not really a superstitious person but to this day I can't bring myself to say it even out of the theatre.
My dad worked as an actor and director for most of his life here in Sweden, and we have a similar superstition regarding "good luck". However, in Sweden it's fine to say "good luck", but the actor cannot say "thank you". If they do say "thank you", the person who said "good luck" has to kick the actor's behind three times. Bit weird but quite funny.
That's the most amazing thing I've ever heard!
I love this especially as I’m currently reading when the curtain falls so this is so interesting!
Mirror is a known portal for ghosts and spirits.
I used to perform in my local theatre and hated walking around it by myself, even just going under the stage I would run 😂. It's definitely one of the most eerie places to be by yourself
I was always told that saying “break a leg” to someone before an audition means you hope they end up in a cast
I always thought that the “break a leg” one is because people hope you get in the “cast” or because your in the “cast”☺️
No i very much doubt it as that would make the superstition modern as they used to splint a leg at that time ..
Ti Jay ahhh ok that makes sense
@@milliemcmillan6101 Medicine as we know it now is very modern and the theatres traditions and superstitions are mostly old x
The New Amsterdam Theater on Broadway which is considered the "Disney Theater" and currently hosts Aladdin leaves a seat open for every show that performs there because there have been numerous accounts of a ghost who I believe is named Olive. She used to be a Ziegfield performer and haunts the night guards of the theater. Olive is considered to be extremely "diva-like" so Disney actually takes care to protect the theater from her getting angry.
Good morning Ollie and Carrie :-)
I always thought “break a leg” was like I hope you end up in the cast. Like if you broke a leg. (I know in this situation you’re already in the cast but this was if you were auditioning.)
Lost a quiz bowl by answering Macbeth.
I have the worst second night curse. Something has gone horrifically wrong every time, sadly for me, in the shows Ive been in second night has always been press night.
Someone said macbeth on our last show (to tempt fate) and their shoe flew off while they ran and the box someone was standing on broke beneath them. Other things also went wrong too so I'm superstitious about that haha
Morning everyone!!
I think your hair looks so great!!!
People are complaining about the hair? I like the top-knot, but it's YOUR hair Oli, do what you want with it (until you have to do something else because shows are open again and they expect a specific cut).
Anyone else think that Olivier would be a good Captain Hook
I’m not massively superstitious. But I still say “break a leg” instead of good luck, if someone says good luck to me, I wouldn’t be incredibly horrified by it!!
once I said good luck to my friend by mistake and he fell up the stairs to our theatre, he almost broke something all because I said good luck 😂 (he was fine, he just got a massive bruise!!)
I was in a production of Macbeth in London when I was 16/17 and one of the cast members accidentally said Macbeth while we were getting ready. 5 minutes later I was accidentally burned on the arm by someone’s hair straighteners...
The version of the ‘break a leg’ origin I learned was similar to what Ollie was talking about- the idea of breaking the curtain leg by continuous bowing in the encore. It’s interesting how many versions there are.
in & Juliet there's a line where the character Shakespeare says "it's called Macbeth!", and i really cant tell if they use the line for a reason with the superstition in mind, because there is a downfall for Shakespeare after that point - but i don't think it's obvious enough for that to be the case. maybe they just used it for the comedy that the line creates, not thinking of the superstition at all!
We had an annoying kid in high school theatre who would go around saying Macbeth before every show, but we think he actually reversed the curse. It got to the point that if he forgot to do it, we would have a bad show.
I always got thaught, that you say break a leg before auditions and it means that they hope you get in the cast?!
The Edinburgh Festival Theatre has a seat open and left down (from the tour I did of there they said that too us)
i kinda like the hair! when you get the new head shots get some pics before you get a chop!
Fun fact! The reason you have to knock to come back in after doing the ritual for saying the name of the scottish play is to stop re-offenders. Basically if you keep saying it then everyone inside can just not let you back in.
I 1000% believe in the Macbeth one because when we were doing a show a school we had three performances and on the 2nd performance someone made a Macbeth joke and EVERYTHING went wrong like absolutely everything but the 1st show and the last show was absolutely fine 🙄🙄🙄
Someone told me once that you now say break a leg because they hope you end up in the cast!! 😂
We just did Macbeth at my uni this year and I'm not that superstitious but i swear the curse is real! Two days before opening a cast member got in a car crash and had a concussion and couldn't do the show (she is okay), and the day before the show another cast member passed out just as we were starting our final dress...
Just saying I love the long hair!
they say macbeth in & juliet
I love the hair!! I want you to grow it long enough for a proper man bun! :)
In Spain instead of break a leg we say loads of shit (mucha mierda) because if there were horse shit outside the theatre it meant that lots of carriages (horses) so there would be a lot of public.
I like the longer hair
I have a love/hate relationship with theatre ghost stories. I hate them because I scare easily and know I'd be paranoid if I ever performed/saw a show there so could never go there, but I love them because it's funny what some people believe 😂
Ok so just figured out that Carrie and Oliver are beauty and the beast. Out of context that doesn’t make sense, so Oliver is the beast because he has longer hair, and Carrie is belle bc she is stunning good at singing and they are both a couple!!!! Dunno if anyone agrees with me xxxx
Ollie looks more like Gaston, but obviously he’s not like him in personality
The Palace used to keep two seats open for their ghosts, but have stopped for Harry potter
I loved hearing the origin behind 'break a leg' because I always found it such a weird thing to say. But when you were reading that, it totally made sense! Do you still say 'break a leg'? or is it just 'good luck' now or something else?