Reply #10: That's great! And it reminds me of another story [View All]

[Rabrrrrrr]

Friend of mine was in the chorus for an opera at the Met, don't remember which, but Pavarotti was the lead that night, and it was being televised live, and my friend was part of a chorus of 6 or 7 sword-wielding guys who also had capes.

Well, in one scene, all the guys in capes were fighting as was Pavaroti. The scene directions were that pavarotti gets stabbed and falls down, and all the cloak and sword wielding guys end up leaving the stage.

Well, this was performed at a time when pavarotti was at about his fattest, and when he fell down in the fight, he fell down on my friend's cloak. My friend could not free himself, try as he might and as he did, and pavarotti could not move enough to let my friend get free. In the next scene, which is a long aria by the character Pavaroti was playing about death and dying - which was being televised live, mind you, and which should be just that character on stage - my friend had to lie there and not move, as though he had been killed, while the fat man sang his aria.

I love that story!