[Trombone-l] Pit Story

[John Monroe]

OK, so here's a pit story from amateur-land.

Some twenty years ago I was playing in the pit orchestra for a  
Stanford Savoyards production of The Sorcerer.  At the end of the  
show, the sorcerer J. Wellington Wells tossed a powder into the fire  
and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.  As he ran off stage, he tripped  
on one of the counterweights holding the scenery flats upright.  The  
flat fell over on stage, creating a big swirl of dust visible from the  
pit.  Flats fell over one after the other while the cast sang the  
finale, each fall punctuated with a slap and a big cloud of dust.   
Talk about bringing down the house!

John Monroe