There's a moral to be learned here . . .

Our blog has been a bit quiet recently and I wanted to post something to make the poor thing a little less lonely. Unfortunately, I have nothing to say. But then I read Rachel's comment about Laurence Olivier, and it reminded me of a story I once heard about him. So, lacking anything else to say, I decided to share the story with you. I'm sorry if any of you have already heard it.

Olivier, who appeared frequently on the stage, once played Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet that was touring the United States. Olivier wanted to make the role exciting, and one idea he came up with was to place a wall to one side of the stage, and at the end of the balcony scene to exit the stage by taking a flying leap and grabbing the top of the wall, then pulling himself up and over the wall and from there off-stage. This was of course very tiring, and repeating the same stunt night after night began taking its toll on him. Finally, at one performance, it got to be too much. At the end of the scene, he leaped up and grabbed the top of the wall, and then, lacking the strength to pull himself up, hung there limply until somebody realized he wasn't going to make it and closed the curtain so Olivier could let himself back down without the whole audience watching.

That story doesn't really apply to anything, but it amused me.