At least one of these is true.

Everyone knows actors are superstitious, but it’s not just because their job requires luck. In the early days of theater, actors were likely to ascend unconsciously, as their audience associated them with the gods and heroes they portrayed. Some created rituals to increase their chances- others, frightened, to decrease them.

You know those people who go to see every single performance of Rent? Rumor is they’re trying to charge up. They can’t do shit so far, but it’s still best not to bring up the movie in front of them.

The Scottish Play isn’t cursed, but Richard III is. Don’t worry, they cut out the speech that triggers it, and you won’t find it in any of the books. You might find it in a plagiarized folio, though.

Bertolt Brecht was full of shit about alienation. It wasn’t an artistic choice; it was a defense against an actor of his who was a Personomancer and hated his guts. No one believes a character could be real, no one gets any charges.

Speaking of Brecht, Bobby Darrin recorded his cover of Mack the Knife the same year as a Dark Stalker ascension. No one’s sure if the song was a side effect or propaganda- all we know is that suddenly, Macheath the murderer went from scary to stylish.

Oscar Hammerstein was the Phantom of the Opera. Ever listen to they lyrics of “Lonely Room”? Yeah, it’s him. Andrew Lloyd Weber is making a sequel based on a widely hated book- he’d better hope it’s good, because if the Phantom’s name is besmirched, his apprentice Stephen Sondheim will be forced to take up the mask and administer justice.