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 Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:09 pm
Okay well this year I'm having a dance show at a theatre I have never been at before. And we were walking around backstage trying to find our dressing rooms and it was such an old theatre (1885) that we got the chills and expected the PotO overture to start playing. We saw this sign that said "Do not enter...very very high up" and I'm like Pshhh, that's not high up, that's where Erik is. And so we stalked about the theatre and determined since there are no boxes he watches from teh vents.
How about you? Any phantom theatres near you?
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:20 pm
I thought we had one the other day at rehearsals. We were going over scene 1 of the play we're doing and the lights went out. All the kids were like, "HOMFG GHOST!" And I screamed and made this evil laugh and went "SWOOSH!" like a cape.
But no one came and ran away with me. XD
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:37 pm
*points at screenname*
We've got the second-largest pipe organ in the world, buncha underground areas and secret rooms backstage (including a natural underground waterfall that they use to cool the organ pipes), and the entire building is done in a rich middle-eastern style due to it's origins as a yaarab temple. xp We even got minarets, which I'm unnaturally fond of.
It's so Eriky. *loffs* Ahem..
There's a real so-called 'Phantom of the Fox', but he's just this caretaker guy who lives there and has been known to lurk about.
I've also been told (by tour guides, no less!) a bunch of urban legends about it being haunted by the ghost of a civil war sharpshooter killed in the Battle of Atlanta, but the nitwits who invented that story seem unaware of the fact that the civil war was in the 1860's and the Fox was built in the 1920's. That and the battle of Atlanta wasn't actually in downtown Atlanta. rolleyes
It's Phantomy anyway. *hugs the Fox*
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:43 am
PhantomoftheFox I've also been told (by tour guides, no less!) a bunch of urban legends about it being haunted by the ghost of a civil war sharpshooter killed in the Battle of Atlanta, but the nitwits who invented that story seem unaware of the fact that the civil war was in the 1860's and the Fox was built in the 1920's. That and the battle of Atlanta wasn't actually in downtown Atlanta. rolleyes XD
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:46 am
Apparently the theatre downtown is reported to be haunted as well, but I've only seen and read this through Internet sources rather than anyone in the city actually telling me this. The pictures they show are pretty generic ghost pictures anyway, and I can't remember if there was a compelling story behind the ghosts, either.
I think all theatres are 'haunted' no matter where you go, anyway. Or at least people still say they are.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:22 am
I live in a small town not alot of people know exist,but we have our own little theatere. I did a play there once,and I intend on doing one again there.
Anyway, there was this storm one night at rehersals *Thunder,lighting...the whole deal*, and to everyone's utter shock the lights went out!
And me and a couple other people thought we heard something....like a laugh...
And of course,there are rumors that it's haunted.So me and the others start to wonder...
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:23 pm
I think that the local Musical Arts Center is haunted because...well...the hanging lights keep swaying during performances.
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:02 pm
Oh and an update on that "Very very high up do not enter." It leads to the catwalks, we had it open yesterday to watch the dances from above. Erik would have been ashamed crying there were only two good numbers due to a severe lack of professionalism. My class came from a very professional arts center that closed so we pwned.
Also I got kinda weirded out because there was this one window type thing above the wings that was boarded up.
Although I just remembered this story about the New York Metropolitan Opera I believe... where in 1980 a female violinist was found strangled in an airvent and the news article was titled something like "Phantom of the Opera kills Violinist"
I forget the details exactly it was in the foreword of my library's copy of PotO... turns out the murderer was a stagehand who was freakishly obsessed with the woman.
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:37 pm
That's scary O.o
Our auditorium is supposedly haunted. A girl fell out of the balcony many years ago and broke her neck. Supposedly she haunts the place. I myself haven't ever seen anything to prove it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:33 pm
I finally remember to put this here. XD
Monday we were doing last minute rehearsals with lights and props which was taking forever. I was sitting with some of the ooompa loompas in the house and we were talking about various theater productions they'd been in and seen. All these kids are theater-brats and one girl has seen more musicals than most adults.
Well the theater we're using is a fairly new theater (I'm think twenty years old?) and of course every theater has its story. One girl suddenly burst out with, "I don't believe in Rodney!" and the other gasped and began to shush her. It reminded me a lot of the first scene in the book when the corps de ballet girls are all frightened witless.
They all knew I wasn't big on performing (yay being a novice) so they proceeded to explain to me the story of the Phantom of the Manship Theatre.
There was supposedly a really good local actor named Rodney who basically got every male lead. There was one show however he was unable to do for some reason (personal injury or the like) and another man got the lead. Apparently this man did a bad job.
So, opening night, Rodney cut the lights and messed with the show, scaring the life out of the audience and cast. Dunno if he murdered anyone, but he was really psychotic. So the whole theatre is rather paranoid and believes if you say you don't believe in him, opening night you will have problems.
Needless to say we did have problems Tuesday with the first show, but that was because the set wasn't finished and the light crew was ignorant. XD
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:59 pm
It happened again! I went to see a concert at the MAC and I could swear I saw at least one light swinging!
It's haunted.
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:24 pm
Our local Miners' Theater is quite haunted with at least three ghosts.
I did two plays there, and a paranormal investigation. I have no doubt it is haunted.
My personal favorite ghost is Lola. She was a dancer during the 1920s and 30s I believe. She loved to flirt with men, but her lover became jealous and pushed her down the stairs to her death. She now haunts the theater, and does indeed mess with men still. Although, she made an appearance to me and a friend one evening, rolled a paint brush across the table.
The other two are men, one a major contributor to the theater, and the other is a janitor. All three wander throughout the theater, but are generally known to be in specific areas.
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