Whistling backstage is considered taboo in the theatre This ____ quite ____ has its roots from the practice of hiring ____ sailors to run the ____, because of their ____ with knots and raising and lowering sails. A signal system of whistles ____ the sailors which meant that ____ whistling was banned to ____ it from accidentally being interpreted as a flyrail command which could have resulted in unfortunate events like a heavy batten falling on actors’ heads. Even though ____ are now ____ over radio, ____ in a theatre is still ____ bad luck. Break a leg
 It’s bad luck to say ‘good luck’, so ____ to ‘____’. There are a number of possible ____ of the phrase ‘break a leg’. One theory ____ the ‘legs’ of the theatre. In the theatre, a “leg” is a ____, and a highly ____ with repeated curtain calls could ____ the fly machinery that raises and lowers the “leg” or curtain. “Break a leg” is way of expressing your wish that the audience ____ so many ____, that it “breaks” that “leg” or curtain.

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