Chuckles — Break a Leg Origins
After the customary pep talk to my cast before the show, I said the traditional “good luck” theatre saying of Break a Leg as a means of wishing everybody well. Barely have I finished saying it when Playshop Kid Ruiz (youngest brother of Playshop Kids Marek and Enzo) proclaimed, “I know where you got Break a Leg!”
A warm feeling stole over me with the thought that such a young child is so well steeped in theatre traditions, so I inquired genially, “So from where did I get Break a Leg?”
He announced triumphantly, “From Disney’s High School Musical!”
My eyebrows met in a mock angry face as I protested, “It did NOT come from Disney’s High School Musical!” Then I turned to the parents and scolded them, “You should teach them theatre traditions!”
Ruiz’s mother laughingly replied, “We don’t know them ourselves.”
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Ay how cute naman!
Hurrah for the next generation of actors!
That’s a good one.
Hehehe… Thanks for the laugh.
Only from the mouth of innocent kids…
What an amusing story. Kids will be kids… That’s why we love them!
ditto