Theatre Superstitions

 Well, welcome to the Drama Mama. Yes. Yeah. Dr. Drama Mamas. Welcome everyone. Everything's, everything's recording. Yep. Everything's recording. All right. We're recording. We're in a new location. It's a beautiful day. A gorgeous floor. Today it's like 65 out here, not a cloud in the sky. Yeah, I, I wanted, like, I wanted to be outside today and I didn't realize that it was actually my hair's like horrible today, um, that it was actually like a cold front I'd come through.

Yeah. Yeah. So we stepped out to go to the farmer's market cuz every Saturday I tried to make it down to go buy coffee and if Yeah. You know, especially if we're running low, we've only got like one bag of this particular vendor down there and so, um, I was like, we need to get down there. So we go downstairs and we're like pressed for time cuz I knew we wanted to be here at 11 mm-hmm.

and we're like hauling ass through the farmer's market. , which is extra today because like, I don't know, it just is sometimes they have extra vendors and like Yeah, the whole of center of Mun Park, which is like the downtown park, um, is like filled with vendors that normally it isn't. Oh wow. It's just like the street.

Right. Oh, that's awesome. Uh, the main drag or whatever. But yeah, so this time there was a lot of people like Bob and Weave and make it to the Ethos Roasters and get my crema. And you were on a Yeah, that's right. I was, I, well, look, we, we got that, um, espresso machine. Mm-hmm. . When we first moved downtown, it was kinda like, you know, an effort to save money.

It was a nice little machine and I could make all the coffee I want, and we found this brand with this local place, and I really, really like it. Mm-hmm. , but we go. So I went down to get us four more bags. Oh geez. This through the next like week or two . Wow. That's a lot of bags. It is. We have run an on excuse.

Yeah. Well I, I have been like, the last week has been some late, so busy. It's up early in the mornings to take kids to school and then we try to, you know, get some work done and that kind of stuff. And um, and then it's, it's straight to rehearsals and all of that. And so I start the morning with a quad shot.

Wait, you mean four shots of s four shots of espresso. Oh, milk. Oh my god. It's a macchiato. I'm making a macchiato. And um, so I start the day out with a quad. That's kind of bad for your heart. , I feel like it's gonna, nurse has gone up. Yes. A doctor week and I go in there and they like, they take my blood pressure and.

It's a little elevated and I was like, it's fine. nothing to do. My head hurts a little bit, but it's fine. So, um, oh gosh. Yeah. I might have a stroke and then I do, and then I usually do another quad headed into rehearsal. Oh goodness. To just like make it through. Cuz I come in and I'm like, I'm yawning. And having a hard time driving in cuz it's just, it's just a long day.

It is a, a very long day. Yeah. It's worth it in the end and I really do enjoy it. And the adrenaline of being in the show is really, yeah. You know? Yeah. I guess I'm a theater junkie now. I don't know what it's, I'm too, it's as addictive as the Quad. It's, it's your new addiction. Aqua your additional addiction theater.

Yeah. I'm gonna have to like come off the coffee this week I think. Yeah. You might need to wean yourself off, but, you know, don't cold Turkey. We're into shows now. Mm-hmm. , we're past kind of all that dry tech stuff and we're into shows and so it, it slows down. We've got a show tonight. Mm-hmm. , Merci, fl. We don't have any doubles.

Yes. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah. I mean, I'm kind disappointed that we're not doing a double next week because I know if we were mm-hmm. that the people that are doing some of the other shows could see us. Right? Yes. Yeah. That's the only downside to it. Yeah. And how are you guys gonna get to see our show? Well, you run an extra, you have a third week.

Oh, we're two Weeks's. Right. Okay. Thank goodness for that. But yeah, I won't, like, I won't get to go see you through the woods. No, and it's amazing. It is. Just makes me super sad. Yeah. Stellar. Every single person on that cast is a rockstar. I'll tell you what, so like, I've watched a few of these, um, directors, like during this process, I'm gonna be extra squirrely today because I know every time I move I'm like, oh, now I'm wet here.

Yeah. My pants are all wet and then I get like leaves stuck to my hands. . I, I, you know, I don't do a lot of sitting on the ground in the park. , , sorry. Not like on camping podcast recording thing, but I don't mind it at all actually. Well, think of all the people that are like drenched in snow right now. I don't think drench is the right word.

Covered, buried in snow right now. Just, just watch this. It's gorgeous. We're by the lake. It's just beautiful. Nature. Nature. Anyway, we were talking about the director. Oh, um, . I was like, what was I talking about? Um, I've watched a few directors at this point and everybody's process is just a little bit different.

Um, but I've really enjoyed watching Tommy work. It's, um, he, he has a vision overall, like backstory for this. That makes sense for this set. I mean, we've talked a little bit about that. Mm-hmm. , but then how he works with the actors. Um, some directors, I'm sure it's just because we're oppressed for time. Some directors, um, that I've watched don't really do a lot of this, but Tommy, um, he.

When he sees the scene happening and the, the actors are trying to take a stab at what they think they should be doing in that scene. He'll, if he doesn't agree with it or he thinks it could be better, he pauses them and then he goes and he actually just has a conversation with them about what's happening in that scene.

Right. And tries to sort of like walk them through that so that they make better choices with their movements, their dialogue is more purposeful. Mm-hmm. . And in the end it's made this show just take this extra step because like the actors are all so talented. I mean, they had a lot of auditionees, so they had their pick of the litter, so to speak, from a casting standpoint it felt like to me.

Um, and so you already have this like, high level of talent already cast in this show. Um, it's a popular show, so I mean it makes sense like everybody wanted to try out to be in it. Um, and. For him to just take his time with each one of them to make sure that they were making the right, they understood what was happening in that scene.

I think it helped them connect better with their dialogue and remember it better. Um, cuz that's like a really hard part, right? Like you're, yeah. You have all of these lines. I mean it's, it's got a lot of music in it, but it's not music straight through. There's a lot of dialogue. Yeah. And to have to remember all of that, you have to find ways to help you do it.

Sometimes it's like little mnemonic things, you know? You remember like specific words? I used that when I was doing um, elf. Mm-hmm. , you know, a few years back. Uh, I found somebody on TikTok that was like, this is how I remember words. And I was like, well I'll give it a shot cuz I'm having a really hard time.

Yeah. I mean I don't really have the background in this stuff anyway, but like, um, I think his, all of that to say , he's awesome. He's really awesome. And I took a second at the end of our first show. And I just grabbed him and I told him that. I was like, I just have to say how impressed I am with your process and how well that turned out in the result.

Mm-hmm. . And he's like, well I don't really know. He's so humble and so nice. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, I don't really know any other way to do it. And I was like, well, don't change a thing cuz I think it's magic. Yeah. Well and from a tech standpoint, he's jumping right in there with us, like on his hands and knees helping us fix things.

Yeah. And here's how you do this, like super patient with us. Cause we come in at the very end when we're super clueless, when everyone else has got it down. Yeah. So it's been a really nice overall, incredible experience. Yeah. The people, the cast members, when the cast has been amazing, oh my gosh. They just hop in and they help us preset the top of the mm-hmm.

Nobody's really done that before. It's always just been up to the techs. Yeah. Um, at least in the shows that I've done, that's like a nice space and I didn't mind that at all, but it was definitely nice to have them be a part of that because it made the handoff to techs a lot easier I think. . Like having them be out there and it, it serves their own self-interest is a joke.

The other day when I thank them for doing that, you know, it's like, well I need to know who my prop is gonna be there. So like I have a vested interest. But even above and beyond that, especially with like Judah and Mark, shout out to you two because they've been very much like leaders for the tech. Like, let me show you where this goes.

Yes. You know, let me help you do this. They jump right in every single time. They're great leaders cuz they're not like, you need to do this. It's more like, well, why don't we try this or something. So yeah, those two have been really helpful. Yeah. Helpful backstage. Oh nice. Thank you. Yeah, it's been, its been a really awesome experience back there.

And, you know, getting to know the, the staff there at theater Warner Haven has been a, a great experience too. And you know, of course we've had Dan on the podcast before and mm-hmm , he's just, he's the nicest guy. So, um, we got moved up to the, the booth for stage management. Um, On preview night we moved up and when we got up there, Laura, she's shorter than me and I had a hard time seeing too, but I had to stand to see out the window and down to the stage because it's, it's less about the height of the window and more about how it, how close it is to the stage.

Cuz it's this black box, it's a small venue and so you really kind of have to have a pretty steep angle to see down there. Anyway, Dan, he's like, we got this figured out. No problem. Give Laura the height that she needs and they pull in this big studio box. They have these like highchair almost style like chair, like bar chairs.

Yeah, chairs master. And, and they screw it. They get it on the box, they get the box in position and then they screw the chair to the box. So. Oh, that's awesome. It's totally a part of it. And that's cool. Yeah. But the, the best thing is we come in the next day ready to resume our positions and you know, yeah.

Get our height, you know, climb up, uh, The tower, so to speak. And, um, we walk in and Dan has decorated her chair. He's found this like sparkly fabric. Oh my god. And this surprisingly heavy little crown. Oh my gosh. And like placed it on there. So it was Laura's throne. That's awesome. So adorable and so sweet.

Oh. And like, it's just a little thing, but it, it, I mean, it doesn't Yeah. Those little things mean a lot. It does. It's like nothing's ever a problem there. Oh, you need this? Sure, I got it. Yeah. Immediately they're poop. Next thing you know, they're fixing, you know, dives in and helps you with the fog machines.

Like, you know, cuz they've got mine to their own. It seems like everybody has trouble with fog machines. Oh my gosh. Last night they were giving me a trouble and he, you know, he's, he said he, he proclaimed himself, right? Yeah. The, the fog machine master, whatever. But yeah, I mean, he just dives in mm-hmm. and, you know, um, our, our, we had a, a light that wasn't functioning properly yesterday and, uh, Laura texts, uh, the guy that kind of helped.

Troubleshoot all of that stuff. Boy, he's fast. Yeah, he is. And he was just there all of a sudden we're like, we can't really move cause we're still calling the show. And he's like, okay. You know, and he just disappears. He's like, I'll come back later. You know? Yeah. But everybody's so nice and Oh that's nice.

So welcoming and what a great first experience with them like that this has been mm-hmm. . Yeah, it's like the entire time, it's been a couple of months doing this and we're approaching the end cuz you know, we've got the rest of the shows this weekend and next weekend and then it closes. Yeah. And it's just been such a great, like first tech experience.

I mean we did sort of help with iCal but that was just being pair back there and you know, moving a little bit, but they didn't require much help. Mm-hmm. . Yeah, I know. They did it. They were pretty self-sufficient. Yeah. Well, and I realized last night, because I've been keeping track of hours, if you, if your kid needs community service hours and you want a ton of hours, volunteer at your local theater because you can get a hundred hours for a show, so Oh.

More than that. Easily. Mikayla got, when she did, she never logged all her hours for all the other shows mm-hmm. That she's done. But I, I made her log, uh, iCal and so, or not iCal, I made her log, uh, SpongeBob. Mm-hmm. . So she logged that and that was like 120 something hours. That was a lot hours. Yeah. We're up to 35.

And this is for Stella. She just started Sunday. Okay. Already at 35. and I was thinking about all the actors and all the technicians who aren't getting a paid ascent to do any of this. Yeah. And they're spending all this time to bring this gift to you. Mm-hmm. . And they Yeah. They need to be recognized for that because they're doing it because they love it because they wanna give you something.

Yeah. And they want a good product. Yeah. You know? So thank you to all of those people who are giving all this time to this cuz it's an amazing show. And I know you guys have a great show over at Lakeland too. It's titty, titty, bang bang. Oh yeah. Receive anything. We are way into it now, so. Yeah. Um, well you had opening night nights last night, right?

Yep. I feel like we're on the same schedule as you guys. Yeah. Um, yeah, the sort of, uh, our opening night cuz they do Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at Winne Hayden. Oh, gotcha. You had your preview night when we had our opening. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Yes. Yep. So we had preview and then last night was opening and uh, yeah, we're doing it.

We got an awesome car. Yeah. and it flies. See the car? Yeah. You need to come see it Pinky. I was, um, . I was turning the lightboard on and getting ready for us cuz we start a half hour after you guys start. Oh okay. Right. Yeah. We started like your go time seven 30 our go time is eight. Okay. Our targets.

Mm-hmm. . Okay. Anyway, so I'm turning the lightboard on and getting it ready and getting ready to like open the house cuz it was like preview night for us. So Wednesday and all of a sudden my phone starts buzzing and I'm like what the hell? So I look and it's pinky and she's trying to FaceTime me, which she never does.

Like the kids never call ever. Right. Your kids call you, your kids call you all fucking time . That makes sense cuz you call all time. You've muddled that for them. I have. Yeah. My kids are texts. Yeah. So to get that I was like, what's going on? Yeah. So now I'm kind of panicking and I pick up the phone and she's in the car with Gabby?

Yeah. Oh, she got see her. Oh, I love it. You gotta see that . Yeah. Cause I didn't get any pictures. I love that you got Oh that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I feel so disconnected. But yeah. Yeah. I'm looking forward to the third weekend. We can see it. Getting back Damn car. Mm-hmm. . And so she's been drooling, you know, and so Chris put her in it and then he was like, to make it fight, like we need some counterweight.

Go get Pinky. So Pinky got to get in there with her and they had a blast. , they were up there for a while cuz they were trying to troubleshoot some stuff. Okay. So like they were in that car. Mm-hmm. , um, just living their best lives, let me tell you. That's awesome. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And Chris was like spoiling them around and, yeah.

Such fun. Yeah, it is. And I love, that's what it's about, building the new relationships. Like every show new people are in it. Yeah. Or with us being over at Winterhaven, we're meeting all these new people and I just absolutely love that. Getting to know all these new people and Yeah. Finding out their back stories and where they got their training.

I mean, Cinderella's 20 and she's got this voice that is outta control. Oh gosh. How are you? Only 20. You can sing like that. Yeah. I wanna hear it so bad. Yeah, that's great. She was Sandy in Greece too, that we just saw there. Mm-hmm. . Yep. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. and the guy who plays the Wolf was in was also in green.

Greece. Greece. Mm-hmm. . Okay. Gotcha. All right, cool. Yeah. Very cool. Get to know their their folks. Yeah. It just shows you that the amount of talent that we have here in our areas out control. Its so good. Yeah. So good. So, uh, on a new note, and I know we were gonna cover some of this stuff, but, uh, we are officially a nonprofit, a corporation.

Yay. Mm-hmm. . So we don't have the 5 0 1, like you have to do this part first, then you go get your nonprofit tax exemption. Okay. Perfect status. But yeah, so we're well on our way to being, uh, well we are in org now officially. Wow. Yes. Yeah. I'm so excited. We're doing ah, so I, we haven't really talked much about like what that vision is, cuz we've just been a podcast up to now.

Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Um, so, you know, I, I think after we had that podcast with Dan Yeah. We kind of walked out of there equally energized. Yes. Each of us. Yes. From that experience, I'm like, I'm like getting a hip cramped, like so bad right now. , . It's just like, um, we're sitting on the ground for those who can't see us.

Yeah. It's pretty, it's so nice. It's a pretty backdrop I think, you know? Yeah. Um, it is. It's, but uh, but yeah, so we walked outta that really energized and like really wanting to do some good ourselves in the community and try to bring theater to more, uh, parts of our community Yeah. That maybe aren't getting that exposure.

Mm-hmm. , you know, we see that in school. I mean, we go to an art school and it feels like there are a lot of missed opportunities even in that area. Mm-hmm. because it's kind of a, I'm more, I don't know what the right word is for, to describe the area, but it's, uh, a little bit lower income. Mm-hmm. . And so, you know, parents don't have a lot of the availability that like we have for, you know, getting kids into programs and things, but even if they.

Did, I don't know if they know that it exists. Yeah. The credit start, I mean, we went looking for it and that is how we found it. Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . But like we had to know to go look. Yeah. And I feel like what we, the good we can do is to help people understand it exists Yeah. And help them have the resources to take advantage of it.

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So we've kind of got an idea, notion, a vision maybe. Yes. Even of what it is that we wanna do next. Mm-hmm. . Um, so the podcast will just be another vehicle for helping spread that education and, and awareness and, um, helping parents. And then we'll also be doing some other stuff with the org as we move forward.

Yay. Exciting. Yay. Doing good in the universe. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and, um, I've decided, and I've already started, uh, a book to do the same thing. Oh. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yay. So I'm making some pretty good progress. It's like, I think I'm writing so far my. Style is kind of very conversational writing anyway, but like, um, I think I'm gonna write it.

First person. Mm-hmm. . Okay. So far that's what I've been doing. Like I feel like that's a good way to open it at the very least. Mm-hmm. , even if I don't do the rest of the book that way. Yeah. But, um, just as an introduction. So yeah, that's where I'm, where do you find the energy? Because I am exhausted right now.

Espresso. Well, that's true. Maybe . Maybe that's where I need to stop start. I stopped drinking coffee and just cuz it was like, oh, I don't really like the taste of this anymore. So that's, maybe that's why I've gone wrong. I think that was your downfall. I need a five hour energy or something. See all of these, uh, like tos and things for this thing called mud water.

Oh. It might be one to look into cuz it's all natural and it's a lot of like mm-hmm. , I don't know, homeopathic, whatever. I, I think people that liked coffee like this better. Okay. So maybe you should try it. Maybe so. Cause I'm dragging these days. It could be the fact that we're not getting home to like, midnight every night.

Yeah. I think that's why you're dragging this. That doesn't help. No, I don't know about you, but like, I get home at, you know, probably close to midnight. Um, and we kind of like all de collective collectively decompress. Yeah. It takes a minute. You have to, and so then it's like 1:00 AM Okay. Mm-hmm. . Now it's time to go to bed.

And then I lay in bed and I just, like, my brain's just going all the time. So I lay there and I'll like TikTok or whatever, play a game just trying to get my brain to like turn off mm-hmm. and it's like 2:00 AM before I'm, I know. Sleep. And then you gotta get up at seven. Well I get up at seven, we up at five.

Chris gets up at six and takes care of getting Mikayla down cuz she's the first child Right. You know, and um, walking the dogs in the morning cuz they've gone all night and they have to pee and all of that. So it'll be nice this week to not have all these late night. Yeah. You know, a couple lights off.

Lot more late night rehearsals. Ah, yeah. Yeah. That'll be a wonderful thing. Yeah, those are tough weeks. It's tough for the kids because you know it's coming. You're prepared for it, but it's like childbirth. Yeah. Until you've done it. You can't really understand what it feels like. Childbirth. You sort of forget.

Exactly. You do. You have, you say, I'm never gonna do this again. Two weeks later you're like, okay, I'm ready. Yeah, we'll do the next show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exact. Oh my God. That's a great, isn't it? Yeah. And you almost get a little trauma response from just from power , but then you're done. You're like, oh, look at this cute product I just made,

Exactly, exactly. You completely forget about the ring of fire. Yeah. . You completely forget it.

You know? That's So the taco goes, so some of the, um, next season has leaked at both local theaters. Yes. Yes. So here for some of the stuff that I've heard. Yeah. Yes. We can't talk about it. No, we cannot. It's not out cause we're not. But I'm so excited Yeah. About what's about to happen. Like the very first show at Winter Haven next season is like, I'm so here for it.

Yeah. Oh, it's my favorite show. Mm-hmm. . Okay. And I'll tell you later. Yeah, tell me because I know you don't know it. I don't, I don't know anything yet. You guys, I think I can share or rather I won't tell her later because I'm not allowed to know. won't to camera. Exactly. You won't tell me anything cuz you don't know anything.

Exactly. That's right. You can't tell me anything. Um, yeah, but I think I can release Lakeland's because, well, Alan told the cast that doesn't mean it don't No, he announced it last night. Did I? No. Yeah, at Curin. Okay. Well what did he say? He told the audience the whole season or just No, just two. Oh, he released two.

So, um, I think you said the spring one is going to be big, the musical, like the Tom Hanks. Yeah. Big, um, piano. Uhhuh. . Yeah. So that's gonna be last time I didn't know that was the musical. Chris told me that last night and I was like, whoa, that cool? I didn't either, but Wow. Sounds fun. Yeah. And then that way, um, can I be Zar?

Is that his name? Zar. Zar. Oh yeah. . All you gotta the token The Fortune comes out. Yeah. And then, um, I think he announced it as the summer one, I think is going to be School of Rock. Nice. Which is gonna be lots of fun. Oh yeah. That's the Matilda Vibes. Yeah. It's totally getting Matilda. It's gonna be kids and adults.

Yeah. That'll be fun. And yeah, we're super stok for that one, so that's gonna be fun. It'll be a good season for the kids then. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. At least that show. Yeah. Would love to see them, you know, up on the main stage again. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. And I'm sure the theater for youth is gonna be fantastic too.

I know Jordan's been exceptionally, uh, that tightlipped, uh, tightlipped. Yeah. I know nothing about that. Good for her because you know, she's not the best secret keeper. You're like, I love that about her. Yeah. So this is kind of like she's holding well done. Well done, Jordan, but also like, come on, come on,

Yeah. Come on, Jordan. Throw us a bone . Yeah. Little hint or something. We've got nothing. Yeah, we are dry. Well, dry. Dry. Well, she's taking her new responsibilities. That's right. The director, director for Yes. The youth program. Very seriously. Yep. And we are very respectful of that. Yes. We only ask a little, so, and then she never tells us.

I know. Very. I impressed by her. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's our update. We've got lots of fun theater stuff going on, you know? Yeah. It's gonna be good. I have a great summer too. Did you, did you get that document to open? I could not get that thing to open. I don't know where it is, where it's hiding.

Well, if I had a phone that I could use, I would pull it up for you. Yeah. But, so I did my own research. That's fine. I'll turn mine into a blog. Okay. Yeah. That compliments this, you know, particular podcast. Yeah. We thought we'd talk about some theater superstitions today and kind of educate you on some of those and educate ourselves as well because as we know Well yeah.

Cause I don't know all of them. No, definitely not. Like when Harvey got in the car that day and was telling me in about the, the play name, you can't say the play name. The McPlay. Mm-hmm. . I was tell, I was like, that's bullshit. . That's bullshit. That's not a thing. Yeah. She's like, it is. And I was like, I said the name, and then she just like started freaking out in the car.

Oh, I know. She is highly superstitious, so I don't know where the hell that came from. Well, and that's something I was thinking is, so you may not. Believe in superstitions or believe in any of this, but some of the people take it very seriously. Yes, yes. Like anything in life. Yes. Even though if you don't believe in it or agree with it, you can still respect other people's beliefs.

Yes. Correct. And yeah, that's just part of honor them a good human, right? Yeah. Not just with theater superstitions, but pretty much across the board we can respect each other because we we're all gonna have different beliefs and that's okay. Exactly. Totally. Exactly. We're not allowed to do that. Yeah. And this is America.

You can totally do that. Well, you should be able to do it anywhere in the world, but yeah. Well, I know. Unfortunately we're here. That's not always the word. I know. It's definitely not. Yeah. But come on, people, let's just, let's just love each other. I know. I'm gonna try and fix my hair while you're telling us.

Okay. We're good. Okay. So yeah, I kind of started with the, um, more well known ones. And so the first one would be saying, you never say good luck. Oh. And can I just tell you, when I first started, that was so difficult for me. I know. Because everything is Good luck. Good luck, good luck. No, you can't say that.

You can't say it. It's break a leg or say break a leg. Break all, break legs, the leg, any variation of that, anything with a leg. Just don't say good luck. We say break all the legs. Yeah. So I'm like, how did, why all these things, like why is such a good deal? We're come from? So, so a lot of people feel like they're, I say a lot of people, let's just start with theater goes back to the sixth century.

So the backstory for some of these things goes way back and it's gotten convoluted and there's different ideas and different theories. So I kind of pulled some of the more popular ones to explain these different things. Yeah. But, um, there's a belief in the theater that there's like mischief making spirits hovering about Oh, that do the opposite of what you say.

So if you say good luck, then they're going to curse you do the opposite and give you bad luck. Okay. Okay. So that's one reason why you can't say, okay, good luck. You say break a leg. In other words, two of them kind of related to the leg. So those are the curtains that come down, or the side curtains that come down that kind of block off the backstage, right?

Mm-hmm. , you know, they can be raised and lowered. So breaking a leg could mean you're crossing the legs onto the stage. So you're like going from being, you're like breaking the boundary, right. Breaking the boundary and becoming part of the play. Okay. So it's, you know, well, that's kinda cool. You want actors to break their leg by getting on the stage and being part of it.

Mm-hmm. . Mm-hmm. . And then the third one has to do with the legs as well. That the idea is that you want the theater to be so successful that the legs have to go up and down and up and down and, you know, get a lot of use and they mm-hmm. physically break because the play is so successful or the theater is so successful that they're wearing out the machinery or something.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. Yeah, I know. So that's where break a leg comes from. Oh, I love that. Do not say good luck. I wish there was a counter curse for that because, It's so second nature to say good luck to something. Yeah. Is it sports? You say Good luck and, you know Yeah. Get soccer this morning and God forbid, tell someone to break a life.

I know. They'll be like, , what? Who is this person? Yeah. Don't do that. I did. And it's very windy out here. Okay, I got it. All right. The next one deals with the ghost life. Oh yeah. Because that's a really big thing. Yes. Mm-hmm. Hmm. with every theater. We just had a conversation about that last night, cuz where everyone was getting ready to walk out mm-hmm.

but we didn't put the ghost light out Yeah. Kind of thing. So you have to leave a light on when everybody leaves a theater for most theaters are thought to have a ghost. Like at Lakeland, the ghost name is France and many people have had experiences with Francis that are, we just need to have a whole podcast.

I'm just Francis Stories. Yeah. Yeah. We should. Well, there's been plenty of times where I've come out and the seat's been down. Yeah. Yes. Like Francis has a seat in theater. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. Yeah. It's that same one right up, down, down in the front. Yeah. Yeah. It's not the very end of the row. Right. It's like it's in a chair too.

Mm-hmm. like to the laughter in the middle, in the center section. If you're up on the stage, it's to the, to the right. . So it's not in the sec, the, it's in the front section. Yeah. Well, it's funny you mentioned that because when we were at there this week, you know, we were sitting in the front and Gabby went to go sit down and she did, she sat and when she got up the seat never came back up.

So she, she's getting a mint or something, comes back to the seat. She's like, oh, I can't sit there. I'm like, why? She's like, cuz isn't sitting there. And I was like, what are you talking about? And she's like, well the seat's down. Yeah. Like Francis is sitting there, you know, and I was like, all, so she sat one and then now I'm thinking, oh my God, I'm sitting next to sitting on top of Francis

Yeah. I was like, Jesus. I've heard some of, I don't remember any of them because I'm, and that's where she's sitting. But there's lots of people that have had Francis mm-hmm. encounters. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And many theaters have like their own ghosts that they'll talk about. I haven't heard anybody at Warner Haven talk about a ghost in theirs and they've been around for a long time.

So like, you guys have to ask them. Yeah. . Yeah. Find out the stage. But I mean, leaving a light on in general in a theater is a good idea because there's so many things that could go wrong. Like for real, walking off the stage or walking into a set piece. Oh, yes. But the idea with the ghost light, you play that when the stage goes art.

Yes. Seriously. ? Yes. I've got some very large bruises on my thigh right now that I could show you that. Uh, yeah. But, um, the idea is like, it's kind of a twofold idea. One is that it wards off the spirits by keeping the light on. Okay. The other is that it gives them a light to where they can perform in when nobody's in the theater.

Oh. So it's, that's an interesting theory. Two different theories right there for the ghost set. Yeah. But in addition to that, you should leave a seat open. So when you are doing a performance, they're supposed to always have one empty seat. Like, don't sell that seat because you wanna leave a seat for the ghost to have a seat and enjoy the performance

And that way they're not meddling in the production because they're busy watching the show. . Okay. I trying like that. I know, I know. Yeah. Cuz you don't need 'em wreaking havoc. No you don't. No, we can do that all. There's enough about need human havoc. Yeah. Oh boy. I could have used some assistance from Francis last night helping or wreaking havoc.

No, you're gonna be here like push, do something. Yeah, exactly. Could you help me out? Make the light. Come on. Yeah. Fix that smoke machine buddy. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Here's the other really popular one is never saying the M word . Okay. But we have to say it for this podcast. Do we? Because this is a production.

All right. I'll tell you what, if you're just a listener, you're not, you're not gonna know the word. We just play by Shakespeare. Yeah. Yes. We can describe, I will put the word on the video. Yeah. But don't say it. Cause as soon as you do listen to us, like you should be watching the video too, right? Like you can listen to us and then you can also watch the video soon as you say that word.

A bird's gonna poop on my head. I guarantee it. So we're not saying that word, but bird pooping is a good, it's good luck, luck's luck supposedly. But I'm not interested in that. , you don't need that kind of luck. Right. So this one goes back to, so it's the Scottish play by Shakespeare. It's, yes. One of his first plays written in 1606, long time ago.

Can you spell it? No. You know what, what's, let's come up with a quote from it and then people, I have a quote. Oh, great. Go for it. Okay. Because the reason it's become bad luck is because there's a couple ideas, a couple theories behind it. One is that the, just the play in general when it started was just plagued with accidents and illness.

Really just misfortune. Yes. also, it was often performed in theaters, and then all this stuff would go wrong and the theaters would go bankrupt because it's a really expensive show to put on. Okay. And then it didn't go well. And so then the theaters went outta production because of this one play just being a absolute disaster.

huh? Yes. Um, so part of the superstition is that, um, the lines, there's witches in the show and the lines that they say. People believe they're real incantation. So when they're saying these lines are actually dredging up magic and Oh wow. Spells and all of that. Okay. Okay. So these are all theories. Clearly we don't know the truth.

Okay. And you're not reading that The witches, no. Goodness, no, no, no, no. But there are counter curses, so Oh, good. Yes. Someone is to say the N word . Here's what you can do. Apparently reciting any lines from the lucky play, the two Gentlemen of Verona by Shakespeare. So if you know any of that off the top of your head, you know, you can just spit that out.

Okay? Okay. You don't have to do anything else if you know that, but you gotta know, like dialogue or, you know. Yeah, I mean, I don't, we'll Google it. We'll Google it. It'll be okay. There's, there's easier versions. Okay. Yeah. The second one is to recite this line from a Midsummer Night's Dream. I'm gonna have you read it, Kathy, are you sure?

Yep. We're here. Okay. If we shadows, have offended think, but. And all is mended that you have, but slumbered here will, these visions did appear. Okay. So, you know, put that one in the back pocket. Yeah. I'm not gonna ruin that. . Thank God for Google. . Do you shadows have offended? I know, like I'm, you know, I feel like I'm a fairly intelligent person, but Shakespeare just kills me.

What's these visions? Oh, it's disappear. Yeah. You do all of that in high school, it pretty much says, I'm so sorry if I offended you. Let's move on. Let's just, let's pretty much, let's move on. My bad, my bad, bad. Let's paraphrase. My bad. Yeah, yeah. My bad. You mean to offend? All right. The the easiest one, I believe, is to exit the theater.

Spin around three times, spin over your left shoulder curse, say a dirty word. Okay. And then knock on the theater door to be let back in. Okay. So that feels doable. Yeah, we could totally do that. Yeah. Okay. So you can say it if you're not in a play, as I understood it, like outside the theater, If you're not in Yes.

A production, you can say the word we are Oh yeah. All in a production inside of the theater. Why we can't say it. Yeah. Well, does location matter where you say it at? Like, can you just not say in a theater? You can't say it if you are doing a production. Okay, gotcha. I just play it safe and don't say it.

Period. I mean, poverty was like losing her shit that day in the car. Yeah. Yeah. She was like, you can't say it. And I was like, which play? And then I said it cause I'm an asshole. Yeah. . You're like poking the bear. Yeah. So does the person who says it has to go out and spin around and do other things. Yes. Yes.

Yeah. Part did it for me that day. I, I don't know how, you know, then she was mad because I was in the middle of I love you, you're perfect. Now change. So I was actually Oh, you were in something said it. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Lily Kate said it once in class by mistake, and Ms. Neff made her go outside and spin, and I don't think she made her curse, but spit over her floor spit.

That's funny. Okay. I can't imagine Lily Kate cursing anyway. Oh, she can. She can. She's such a goodie too. Shoes. She is. But man, when she gets wound up, She's, she'll always ask, can I say a bad word right now? Pinky asked if he, I never let her say it. I, every once in a while, it's a really bad situation. Those are mommy words.

You're not a mommy yet. Yeah, I feel you are. You don't get to do that. You don't get to say 'em. I guess that makes me, although I know that Mikayla versus, cuz I hear her sometimes when she's streaming, that she streams, she plays games. Ah. So she'll be like, rah rah. Yeah, her and her friend razzle frazzle and she gets loud, hear it.

She's like, ha haha. You know? Ah, open the door. Get one per pot per stream, remember? And then close the door because Did I tell you that about the printer? Yes. Yes. So now I'm trying to remember what it was. So she was streaming and I was trying to print something and the printer was like malfunctioning and I had to dig underneath her freaking desk to get to the printer.

And I'm cursing the whole time. And she was on. And they could hear me. Mm-hmm. like, God damn motherfucking, you like the whole thing? Oh my God. Sorry guys. Yeah. Um, blew our whole load. Um, right there, right there. Beep. That was just one long beep. I think I'm gonna have to just bring the sound down on that.

Is there a, is there a thing that we need to do for what We curse They're counter. I don't, I think cursing is allowed. Yeah. I think we're good. I think it's fine. Yeah. I don't think our audience is, is, you know, surprised at that. I mean, should we do a trigger warning? You know, if you trigger I am a trigger warning.

just, she's a walking trigger warning. Kristen is involved. Trigger warning. I try not to be, but it just happens. Hey, what are you gonna do? You know? Gotta be, be who you are. Yeah. Yeah. My kids don't, they're not at that stage. They still get on my case for, for using a word. Yeah. They're young. Yeah. Give 'em a couple years.

Yeah. Yeah. The only time I let Lily Kate and she always ask, she felt. Like coming out of into the woods, audition, the callback. She did not feel good about what she had done, and she knew in that moment that there was no way she was getting that role. Plus she was up against incredibly talented other people.

And so she got in the car, she's like, am I allowed to say it? I said, you can say it one time. And she dropped an F bomb. And then we moved on. . Yes. There you go. And I bet she felt so much better. She did. It was like a release for her. Yeah. Hey, it's all good, you know? Yeah. I'm sad she can't come see me. I know.

She's very sad too. Yeah. All right. I know. Here's one that happened in Rudolph. Taking bows to an empty house is an a bad O. So before the show opens, actually, even though you're practicing the bows and who comes out when it's bad luck to actually bow to cover that part of this, like the bows part, how they aren't staged until the end.

Uh, yes. Wait a minute, let's, let's see. Is that a separate, they kind of described it as there's no one there to appreciate your hard work, so you shouldn't be bowing because you don't actually have an audience. It's just considered a rehearsal. Okay. So that's. So kind of all it said about that. So what about Francis?

Well, what I un that doesn't, Francis is part of the production. Yeah, true. True, true, true. Yeah. Um, so I, as I understood it, part of the superstition also is that you don't, you don't stage the bows, the curtain call until it's like time, it's like right before the first show. Yeah. Probably to, to help make sure that that doesn't happen.

It probably is. Yeah. But it, it, it's all almost felt like it's become its own superstition. Mm-hmm. gotcha. Yeah. As well. But you know, we did that for Rudolph and they got staged a little bit early because there's all these kids on the stage. Yeah. And then they kept bowing and like, people were getting mad.

Yeah. It was, yeah. It was about to get violent on the stage. Yeah. Yeah. Like the experienced kids were like, stop. Yeah. It's a big deal. And then they were joking. Yeah. And the other people thought it was a joke and it was like, no, it's not a joke. It's the ways, you know? Yeah. Mm-hmm. . Well, I will say it was hard for me because we had to go out and bow as Bumble.

Yes. I knew I wasn't supposed to bow, but then you get out there and you're like, okay, it's my turn. And I would start to bow. Yeah. You know, there's a five second left between walking on the stage. I'd already forgotten. Which is not shocking at all. But happens is you get anywhere I feel like happens with a lot of things.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. So what else? Yeah. Okay. Whistling backstage. No, no, no. Or Yeah, you can't whistle. And the idea behind that was before we had like modern contraptions, we had, they hired off-duty sailors to work the flies bring in like the things, the set pieces and things. And so because they didn't have headsets, they worked up this, um, code in whistles that, you know, a certain whistle would mean bring down this, or a certain whistle would bring down that.

That's interesting. So if you whistled, then somebody working the flies or something might think something was supposed to come in and you could injure somebody. Yeah, I get blocked on the head. What do you know about that? Oh, I So is Kathy , unfortunately yes. Yeah. So that's why, that's where that all came from is no whistle read up on this, but I did see that it's whistling and humming.

Oh, I've never heard the humming. I hadn't either. So that's gonna be in part of the blog post because I will elaborate on that one there. Yeah. After I've had a chance to kind of read through it. Hum. Humming. But yes, I saw it. And I was like whistling and humming. Huh? That's new. Yeah, that is. Do you remember why the humming?

I don't. And you know, my phone's recording so I don't get to look it up. Yeah. But um, and I couldn't open the document so you know, there's that . I tried really hard. I tried like phone, I tried for my phone, I tried it for my computer signed in and my drama mama's account like everything. Oh. I'm like gosh darn.

I was determined to do it without your help and it never worked out for Well, we're gonna meet up next week and we're gonna go through some of, we are, Kristen's gonna educate me. Oh yeah. You need that Uhhuh now. I still need to get with you. I know. Know we were scheduled and then, you know, shit happens.

Yeah. Life forget, life happens. It always, always, always is like that. Yep. Always, always, all right. I don't know if this is a superstition, but it's certainly, um, a belief in the theater that if you have a bad dress rehearsal, it means that the next you're opening, like your last dress is bad. That final Yeah.

Good opening. Good opening. Which the idea behind that is by the time you get to your last dress, you're pretty comfortable with the show. And you're not necessarily in theory, in theory, , hopefully, you know, fingers crossed. So you're not completely panicked and checking every second that you're doing the right thing.

You've gotten to a place where you're just kind of on autopilot. Yeah. So that's when all the mistakes come in, muscle memory kicks in. Right. So having a bad dress rehearsal the next night, you're like, oh, I better really be paying attention to what I'm doing. Yeah. Beyond the game. It's like a little gut check.

Yeah. Almost. Yep. Yeah. And I learned about something last night. This is not in my notes, but, um, there's something called the second show Slump. So after you've had an opening night that is, you know, fairly successful, the second show. generally has some hiccups because okay, you've had a great opening night, you're feeling good about it.

You're in that same place. Like, okay, I don't need to worry so much. Get a little casual maybe. Right. And you get a little careless and then, you know, little things happen. So I think we have all experienced that. experienced that. Yeah. Yes. That's all we need to say about that. That is what we, and it's live theater.

It's these things, fog machines. Oh my gosh. And usually it's things the audience wouldn't even realize. Yeah. Right. It's allotted like behind the scenes stuff. Yeah. I, I had a, I, I had my finger on the go button for a light last night. I had it on the go button. I was waiting. Laura says, lights, and then go, that's how that goes.

Right. She says, lights. And my finger went trip and I hit, took the cue. I took the cue. Thank God it had like a 32nd fade. Oh. So it didn't matter. Okay. But yeah, it's not something somebody would've noticed like, you know, a bump or something. Cuz like, music's at the very, at the very end, a lot of times you have that.

You know, hold the low, right and bump, bump and the lights a lot of times will come up on that bump. Mm-hmm. , it wasn't one of those. Yeah. So it wasn't a fast transition, it was just That's good. I heard her on the headset. I didn't say go, you gotta wait till I say go. Yeah. I was like, sorry, because if you need a headset, you didn't get to hear my part of it.

Oh, , they gave me the headset, doesn't it? Doesn't work. Need that work. Cause I don't need to talk to. Oh, she making everyone She can't talk back on. Yeah. Yeah. . I can hear Laura like having a conversation, but I can't hear the other side. That's kinda funny. Yeah. Yeah. It's my side of it. I was like, I don't know.

It's like I had Parkinson's or something. It just, it just went . Well, I did that with the fog machine during one of the rehearsals. I was just standing with my finger next to it, you know, ready to push the button and I turned to say something to somebody and I guess I just leaned into the button all of a sudden.

No fog. No fog. I'm like, I didn't touch it. You did? I dunno. . I dunno. Last night too though, it kept like puffing. Was that last night before? Yes. It was like puff the magic dragon. Like poof. Random puffs just off the side. Yeah. And then it got stuck on. It did get stuck on, so I had to run around the back.

Yeah. Run through. Oh my God. Of like dying because I see you like a gazelle through the door, . Cause the doors are open. Yeah, everything's open back there. You can see backstage if somebody crosses, but usually it's lit in such a way that you can't see. Can't see. Yeah. Except we have a vantage point that. I think it's a little different than what the audience sees, and so we could totally see, Angela, you're right, as she's coming in, there's.

And then there's the doors to the set. So they kind of like jig jog. So you can come in the doors from backstage and not be seen. Okay. But if you cross, yeah, to try to get to the center of the backstage, which is where the smoke machine buttons are. Right. Where, and you know, there's a beanstalk and you know, different things entrance over there.

so you can occasionally catch somebody, but like Angela does it so fast, she's like a little gazelle back there. . You see her just like through the door, through the door light. I've got another actor sink. I'm crazy cause I get my hoodie on, I put my hood up and I walk face the wall. So there's no like flesh showing and I kind of scoot along.

So all you can see is like a black shadow and the white track of your black shoes. Yes. Right. My reflective running shoes. But I feel like that's why I feel like it's a gazelle because I just see the white part like, it's like it jumps . I should probably change my shoes cuz they're running shoes. They're meant to be reflective.

So I don't think by a a car. Never thought about that. I don't think the audience can see it. It's our vantage part. Yeah. I guess my shoes are done. Yeah. And you And it shouldn't be Paige that right. Looking on stage. I'm trying really hard. I'm gonna make it one time where you can't even see me . But I seen you multiple times.

I know. I'm back there a lot. DAF tape on the back of shoes so you can't see them. That's a good idea. Yeah, that is a good idea. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. All right. What else you got next one? No real jewelry or money allowed on stage. Okay. Oh yeah. This is because I didn't know that that was a thingy. Yeah. I mean, I knew like no jewelry, but I didn't, why?

What was happening is people would steal the things. Oh. And then the props weren't there when they were needed. Okay. So that makes a lot of sense. So that it would screw up the scene or, okay. Yeah. Very logical ones. Exactly. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Next up. Now we're getting to some of the ones I had not heard of.

Exit with your best foot forward. So, oh, when exiting a dressing room, it's believe that leading with your left foot is a sign of good fortune. And then the opposite, when visitors enter, they should enter with their right foot forward. . That's a lot of thought. I'm not sure I can think about that every time I walk in.

No, but that was, I was like, oh, that's a new ocd. I get to into my life. You're welcome. Yep. . Yeah. Okay. So leaving the dressing room, leave with your left foot, lead with your left foot. Yes. And if we're visiting the theater, like when we call, when it just says Important for visitors to enter with their right foot forward, enter the theater with the right.

Yeah. Okay. So good luck with that one. Oh, dang it. Okay. Never light a trio of candles. So typically, I mean, obviously now we don't use real flames because that's super dangerous, but Yeah, exactly. Long time ago they had these, the fire marshal. Right, exactly. And honestly, you on the stage, you can't tell from that far away.

So you always, well just get those, you know, little fake ones. Yeah, the fake ones. Yeah. So they, you know, it was bad to light too much because you could start a fire and, you know, these old theaters were wood fetched, you know? Right. . It was like a bonfire Yes. Waiting to happen when, um, when I was a teenager.

We did a trip over to Europe and part of that, like, it was like a whirlwind of a trip, right? It's uh, seven countries in 16 days. But part of what we got to see was the Shakespeare like theater. Oh, cool. Well that thing's like, it's just, it's just wood. Wood, right? Yeah, yeah. It's kindling. . Exactly. So you know, too many cans.

But then there's also this superstition that, so if there's three candles, the person who stands closest to the shortest candle will be the first to die. Oh gosh. Yeah. God, that's morbid. Uhhuh. . Yeah. So, yeah, don't, don't that. Don't worry. We just don't need to do candles anyway. No, Uhuh. All right. Blue should not be worn on stage.

Obviously nobody follows that rule. Yeah, I know. Gabby wears a blue dress. Right, right. But the belief was that a long time ago, blue was like the most expensive dye to use. Oh, interesting. Well, specifically indigo, right? Yeah. I don't know about that, but Oh, like indigo violet or whatever. Mm-hmm. . Well like it.

That's still a blue. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. So the belief is that producers kind of started this superstition that blue is bad luck, so they wouldn't have to pay for blue dye in their clothing. That's interesting. Yes, exactly. Basses, sneaky sneaks, stealing people's jewelry and their money. Yep. And now no room in the budget for blue costumes.

All right. Here was a weird one. Never bring a peacock feather on stage. Oh, I've heard that one before. Do you know why I, once you say it, I'm gonna be like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Okay. So it looks like the , but the short answer is no. No. Okay. . So to a lot of people on the peacock feather, it looks like the evil eye.

Oh, right, right. True, true. So you know, when you see, I told you you did see it came right back to you. Yeah. Evil eye. So if you use the evil eye, you're like casting evil thoughts for unassuming gentlemen. If, if he knows about any, I feel like no . Also, I have three mics. Oh yeah. Chew that. Sorry. I could go get from New York.

She's ready to the audience. I know. Sorry. Her squirrel. That's it. Squirrel. That's her squirrel. It's the park. You're totally, we should have some squirrels in this park. Where are they? Yeah. I feel like I'm the biggest seen srr i's singer. Live animal. Except birds. A lot of birds. Yeah. There are a lot of birds.

Anyway, ducks. Yeah. Stinky ducks and duck poop. Dirty. All right, so evil eyes. It's like you can cast a bad spell on somebody if you use the evil. I used a pee, not supposed to use a peacock feather. Oh my gosh. Little gobo peacock feather. Because we don't wanna cassy evil spoon in an actual one, but you could like make a fake one.

Like if you needed it, if you needed a costume, because that has been needed. I know. Yes, I did not. Okay, so don't go plucking any peacocks. Right. Don't do that. Feather. You don't have to pluck 'em. They drop them fall regularly. Yeah. Yeah. Those things are loud too. Peacocks. Yeah, they're, they're, they're, we used to have 'em in the aviary when I worked out at Discovery Cove and the females.

We had two males that were the blue variety, and then we had two white females. I don't I've ever seen 'em white, two females. I don't know if I said that. My brain got a little ahead of me. So, um, the males were fine. They never bothered us. Yeah. But the girls were little bitches. Mm-hmm. . Oh. And they, we'd be standing at, we had like a food cart.

I don't know if everybody knows about discovery, co being like an interactive mm-hmm. . So you get to like, you know, get up and close to the animals anyway. And so we had three aviaries and they were in the biggest aviary and we had this food cart and you would like open up the food cart and hand people little cups and then they would hold the cups out, feed the birds.

Okay. So, or hold it down, feed the birds. The birds were down low. Um, anyway, so you'd be like mine in your own freaking business. And then the peacocks would come up behind you and you'd hear 'em. Look up. Yeah, they're loud . Oh. Because that's how they start. Do I do that again? And you're like, motherfucker, she's gonna come up and hit me.

And sure enough about that time when it registers in your brain, what's about to happen? It happened. Oh my God. Oh, they jump and they hit you with their wings and they hit you with the spurs on the back of their, what? Their legs. Pay money to see that. Like they hit you all at the same time in your ass.

Like jump. Jump. They jump. So you get it around your waist. Oh my. And on your ass cheeks. . They're so mean. You need to find a, my God, somewhere. Internet somebody. Oh, absolutely. Chickens do the same thing. Yes. I've been attacked by chickens quite large. Mm-hmm. . Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, . Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. They're there neighborhoods in Orlando that have problems with the peacocks like rule.

They're like gangs. Yeah. Yeah. And then they stick out their feathers all like, yeah. With all their evil eyes. Yeah, with their evil eyes. They actually, they, they bring 'em up, but then they also shake and they pulse. Oh. At the same time. So you'll see their feathers kind of go like this. And, uh, it's, they're, what they're trying to do almost is like that trance for the females.

So I've watched the boys do it to the girls Ah, in the aviary. And so you'll have the girl like this, and they get right here, and they're like back and forth a little bit at her, and then they kind of pulse ah, and like surround her so the, the like eyes, like go right around her. Oh my gosh. It's like in Trancing, I think it's like an LSD trip.

Yes. Something interesting. Yes. You're not just supposed to make, they're highly success successful in that ABC , the girls were always having babies . Oh wow. One or the other. Oh, wow. Things you can learn kitchen and start like, I'm outta here. So, oh my gosh, how many times I've had this conversation with people.

Um, I'm so glad that we don't have to do like mating dances. so glad there's like a prairie chicken. Saw this documentary once. Ariso squirrel. It's, you're gonna want the, it's ok. Yeah, it's fun. So we're in nature. There was, there was this like documentary and it was about prairie chickens. I mean, it had other shit, but they had gotten to the prairie chicken site.

Wait, wait, what's a prairie chicken? A chicken that lives on the Prairie Chicken. Yeah, but I mean, it's like a wild chicken, a little house on the brewery. Chicken . I feel like I still, I drop Gabby off at school. Like there's there some chickens and roosters. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Continue. Um, anyway, so they, they kinda have an elaborate dance , so they kinda like, they go up on their tiptoes and they like, like really quick, like

I had this conversation, I was like a kid, I was still working at the bird store and I had this conversation with the girl that had seen it and we we're comparing notes and she's like, oh my god. Can you imagine? You're like, walk you as a bar with your little feet cause you like, get up on your tiptoes and then have to let go.

Yeah. Yeah. We were having such a good time and we were making like we were doing the little dances and stuff. Yeah. We're stupid . Gosh. Yeah. Well thank God humans don't have any of that. I know. Yeah. Type situation. I mean, you know, there's other, there's other nonsense, but Yeah. You know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, don't have to worry about feathers. Super dog. It's not related to but. Very entertaining and educational, which is what we're all about. Oh yeah. I've got lots of stuff like that. Oh, I have no doubt. , . We could talk for hours about other subjects too. We're not podcast. Just on nonsense. Yeah. Just, yeah, just random shit.

Random. Like what's the random shit? You know? Yeah. That's a different episode. Yeah. Okay. Never get here. Back to the topic. Okay. All right. So never give Right. Never give a performer flowers before a show. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Because it's like rewarding in them for something they've done before they've actually done it.

Okay. I'm noticing a big theme in the theater, like that's, that's big. Like you don't bow cause there's nobody there to appreciate mm-hmm. . See the flowers prior. Like you don't count. You don't count your chickens until they're hatched. Oh, especially your prairie chickens. Yes. . . I'm gonna need to go look up what a prairie chicken is.

Is that like the Prairie dog? Does the Prairie dog try? Yeah. They poke their heads up. We'll, keep in mind, so this, this is based on some documentary I saw probably 20, 25 years ago. So like that probably extinct. I don't even know if you can find that documentary anymore. And yeah, maybe. Maybe They're very good dancers.

They, although maybe they, maybe they're not. They're bringing the dodos back. I saw something. They are like that. Yeah, that they, they've found a way to do it and they're gonna do it. The dodos were extinct. Like Jurassic Park style, like extracting DNA from the mosquito, I think something like that.

Jurassic Park shit. The damn mosquito. Them and something else. There was something else, I don't remember. I'll have to see if I can find that art. There's a song called The Prairie Chicken Dance. Wait, the Prairie Chicken, the Foghorn Leghorn Little. The little one that I don't know. Oh, he, you know what I'm talking about.

He's a little brown leg. Horn is a rooster. Yeah. But there's a little guy. There's the little one, the tag along. Yeah. What is his name? Um, I dunno if he might be, cause he's brown, right? Like he's not a regular chick. , right? Yeah. Or is it just because he's young? God, I don't know. But he had like, question in the universe aren't usually, they're like, you know, well, miss Pressy, she's a spinster chicken in Foghorn Leghorn.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. . Well, she's just chicken too. Yeah, she's just, we, we need to know about the little guy. All right. I'm working on it. He, he's a chicken hawk chicken. He's a chicken hawk. He's a chicken hawk. Sorry. There he is. Just a, there he is, right there. There, he's right there giving fog, corns some attitude.

Yeah. He's got chicken hawk. Oh my gosh. I gotta go look up all my birds, as in he eats them, which is what all those cartoons are all about. So that little guy is supposed to eat the big old Foghorn Leghorn. Yes. That's why I'm not buying it. Something. You remember not buying it. He's a cute little chicken hawk born February two.

Henry Hawk is his name. His name's Henry. Well Henry like Henry. Henry, yeah. Oh, play Uhhuh Chicken Hawk. Oh. He's the father of the fog chicken Bell Brown Chicken brown. That's, I know that's not appropriate right now, sir. , we're just talking about mating dances. Yeah, that's the brown chicken brown cow. This has him as the dad.

I didn't know he was the dad. The little guy's, the dad. That's what it next me know whatsoever. That's news to me. Oh, he's a baby. I don't know. It's a baby. He's a baby dingle. My baby is that. He's trying, he's trying to prove that he's in fact a chicken or a rooster and not a schnuck. What the hell's a schnuck?

Well, I don't know. It's an old term. It's old. Is that like schmuck term? Has it been involved into schmuck? Probably. I don't know. I feel like I'm totally down. Yeah, we're down. Squirrel. She's squirrel. Put the phone away. Way down. A rabbit hole down, but it so much. There's chickens that are lessers and then there's gras.

Did you know that, that there's different, apparently, I don't know what one means, but apparently there's even some small and one's big. Yeah, there's subgroups. Totally pulling that outta my head. There's pair chicken class. Oh my God. Segregation in chickens is well, yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, you know.

Yeah, nature. They do it all the time. All right, I got one left. We're going to end this up before we get way even further off the track here. . All right. What's the last one? I've never heard this one before, but you're supposed to give the director a graveyard bouquet at the close of a show. So what makes a graveyard bouquet like black flowers?

Well, they used to go steal flowers off all of the graveyard because it signifies like the death of the show. The end of the show. Oh, we, no, we should not . Why not? No, we should not. On camera . We would never do something like that. . Well, okay. Not like in literal, like go grab it, but like make one. Well, they say a lot of people now just buy flowers several days ahead of time and then let them just kind of die.

Okay. Yeah. So they're like dead flowers. I'd never heard that before. No. Yeah. Yeah. Same. Mm-hmm. . So, I mean, I didn't. Like I know that, okay, so I did some research and I found like common ones and then I found like less common ones. Mm-hmm. Right? Mm-hmm. . So, um, There was a bunch that I don't think I've ever heard before.

Mm-hmm. and it's like, probably not even practice anymore. I wonder if many of these are not really practicing. Well, I feel like if we gave Tommy or Alan graveyard bouquets, you know, at the end of their shows, and I know they might be like, wtf. No, probably. What is that? All that I don't understand. So maybe says you're never gonna be in our show again.

I know. So weird dead flowers. It's so big. Oh geez. It's Angela's fault. It's not my fault. . He's trying to educate you people, but listen, fog like horn. Oh, that's, I'm so jealous. I'm gonna see that show. So sad. So good. It is so good. Yep. It's cool. Are they taping it by chance? Is they taping it? That's not loud.

Dang. Okay. Well we all have, uh, shows this evening to Yeah. And you've gotta go get some, uh, joinery to take Del Lolo, right? Yeah. She doesn't have a leave bed today. Exactly. Until it's time. Lolo, who's a stage manager, Laura, we're they know she's gone. Not her. I know, but I don't think we've called her Lolo.

Maybe not. Anyway, Laura, I was like, I'm bringing you lunch in bed because she's been so busy with this show. She's gonna be super busy. She's a teacher, so she's up at the ass crack of dawn and then a special needs children. So it's, you know, it's hard enough being a teacher and then you throw that on.

True. She's so fantastic. Special, special needs, and they were all, and they're all like pre-K little guys trying Think about something fun to do for Laura. Mm-hmm. . She deserves the world. Mm-hmm. to figure out how we're gonna get that to her. That's right. Oh, so, um, just a little plug. So Lakeland Community Theater started there evening by the lake auction.

Ah, yeah, yeah. Last night. So let's, let's talk about that. Our biggest charity event that we do, um, the year for the. Fundraising a theater. Yep. For fundraising. You turn our basket in. Yeah. Yes. We have a great basket. We have, um, you, they can go on and bid. It's $150 gift card to 1961. Yeah. Great restaurant gift restaurant.

Yeah. Here downtown. And then, um, tickets to see any L C T production that you want. So it is an instant date night. Mm-hmm. men, you don't have to think about it. Don't have, you don't have to do, this can be your mating dance. If you would like, you can go ahead, take your significant other out. And females you do it.

Two ladies. Yeah. Take your men out or your partner. And, um, have a wonderful dinner and then go see a great show of your choice. Um, you can bid on it or you can buy it straight out too. You can do one or the other. Yeah. And there's a ton. There's like 50 different auction items. Oh, there is. You can bid on, there's a lot of stuff.

Yeah. You can go online and look at everything. Um, and there's also causes too. So if you wanna help, um, with a new keyboard, help donate for certain things. Oh, for the theater. You can do that. And you can also actually, if you come and see Chi, chi, bang, bang. Mm-hmm. , there's multiple baskets that are out, um, in the glass lounge.

And most of them, most of those that are out are alcohol related only because those I don't believe can go on the online. Okay. Oh. Um, but they're fantastic. Whether you enjoy wine or old fashions or nice margaritas or whiskey mm-hmm. , um, yeah. They're beautiful. Yeah. And it's not too late to donate a basket or gift certificate or something to them.

And if you're a small business here in Lakeland or in Winter Haven or in the area, yes. It's a great way to get some publicity for your business. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And there's also experiences mm-hmm. . So it's not just things that you can, um, bid on. There's, um, golf for at grasslands like Escapology.

Mm-hmm. , escapology. There's some awesome artwork that's out there. That you can purchase. And there's also some vacations that you can purchase. Mm-hmm. Nice. Um, which is great. There's one in Orlando and, um, new Smyrna. The, yeah, the new Smyrna, if you wanna go to the beach. Um, and the dates are pretty flexible from what I understand.

So Nice. Yeah. So get out there, donate to your theater, get involved, come see two great shows this weekend. Chit Lakeland Community Theater into the woods at Theater, winter Haven for the next few. Yeah. Into the woods this weekend. And next shitty Chitty is, well, by the time this comes out, the following, yeah.

Three. So potentially if you do your calendar right, you can come see both. Yes. And just do some good in the world. Just do something kind for somebody this week. Yes. Kind word. Yeah. Do something good. Be, be good human. Just, all right. Let's just do better people. Yeah, I know, right? We'll consider this. All right.

Because my butt is really wet, so, Ah, yes, .