"Clap on, clap off." That's what you can do with special lamps to make lights go on and off almost like magic. Now you're probably wondering what magical lights has to do with my summer stock rehearsals. Actually though, it's quite relevant. There are light switches on each side of the room and they are the flat kind that tilt one way with the other side slightly indented out not an actual lever device. People lean against the walls while observing or waiting to make an entrance, but they don't realize that they are leaning on the light switch, and just like that the lights are off and we are in pitch black dark. We were running Addams family and it happened and all of a sudden we were playing with no light but somehow we kept playing. I guess it was because uncle fester had lit up his light bulb. In forum rehearsals we were running the opening number and after the lyrics "tragedy tomorrow" someone leaned and the room was tragically dark. The funniest and most ironic time was when we were running the very dangerous fast paced tornado sequence in the wiz and the method acting went into effect when they went off. It's a funny and alarming occurrence but like a show, the rehearsal goes on.
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