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HOW SICK IS TOO SICK - 2 Questions

Mon, 4 Oct 1999, 08:30 am
Walter Plinge5 posts in thread
How sick should an actor be to not turn up for a performance??What would you do if you saw that said actor perform the following night at a different venue in a different show, showing no signs of illness??

Re: BEING DEAD IS TOO SICK

Tue, 5 Oct 1999, 04:39 pm
Walter Plinge
> On another incident, I was involved in a potential deadly accident> and was saved by a whisker. I was on my way to a show in at Hayman.> I was dazed and shocked when the cop and ambulance driver asked me> if I wanted anyone notified. First thing I said was "call the> theatre." That was all that was on my mind. We had Two shows> that day, and after I was cleared to go, I was straight on my way> for the second performance. My timing couldn't have been better. Somehow> the story had got around that I had been KILLED! How appropriate then> that my first appearance that afternoon was at the back end of a coffin> that I helped bring on-stage. Except for those I entered with, no-one> else on-stage new of my presence. You should have seen their faces> as they gawped at this pale faced figure at the rear end of a coffin,> someone they had just been told had DIED.> Even death did not stop me!I've heard of dying on stage, or even corpsing onstage, but leave the real thing to the right moment, because if/when you do die, no-one in the cast of that play will believe you.The Jeff who cried "DEAD!!!"?El

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