Talk:Theatrical superstitions
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The word "relict" refers to natural phenomena. "Relic" refers to human creations (and human remains), including cultural relics. The term "break a leg" is a creation of human culture, so I changed the spelling from relict to relic. Kafziel 16:14, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
What exactly needs to be cleaned up? --Eyrian 06:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Flowers and mirrors
I've removed this...
- No live flowers or mirrors on stage. This is pure practicality; flowers will wilt under stage lights, and mirrors will reflect stage lights at the audience if the set is not designed with extreme care. (The musical A Chorus Line has a famous mirror scene; it can be done.)
... because it doesn't seem to be a superstition at all. Using either of these things is just a bad idea. ~ Booyabazooka 23:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Live flowers are definately a susperstition. I'll try and find a source. Bryson430 17:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] learning via osmosis
there is the acting superstition that puting a script under your pillow at night will help you after practicing the script so you learn it, its is sometimes refered to as "learning the script via osmosis" --voodoom 02:43, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Limelight
Limelight is not green. It's white. The "lime" in it merely refers to the use of lime (calcium oxide) in the lighting which can be heated to white heat without melting. I will remove that part of the article. —BassBone (my talk · my contributions) 19:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Chookas
hey, why didn't someone put this one up? I forgot where it was taken from.. DomDomsta333 12:04, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
