(submitted by KC)
(This was only a horror story because we had trouble controlling our laughter and carrying on with the show) I was stage managing a community theatre production of Auntie Mame a few years ago. During the middle of the run we had a daytime show for an inner city middle school. As you may or may not already know, there's a bit with some rope where Beauregard, Mame's husband, is climbing a mountain and yodeling. He then falls and dies. All that the audience sees is the rope dropping. Audience response: (shouts) "Is he dead?" (another shout) "Yeah, he's dead
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