T'was the night before the premiere and the second of a set of seven shows. After three run throughs without an audience (so hard), we had the welcomed presence of the theatre employees seated in the public. The show starts, things move along as they always do... intro, wheel, trampoline, Bacon... when suddenly, A. starts the big drop in his number, loses contact with his straps and hits the stage head* first!
Might I add that I am seated on stage directly behind him during that drop? And that A. is an incredibly stubborn young man? Seriously, dude hit the floor hard and instead of stopping, he insisted on finishing his act! Frankly, there is a line between perseverance and stupidity. And considering how out of it he was after smashing head first into the floor, and that it wasn't even a real performance, and that we had the premiere the next night, he should have stopped.
The good news is, he didn't do the trampoline number. The bad news is, he didn't leave directly to the hospital to get checked. He did go eventually, but got antsy and left.
Did I mention he fell head first onto a hard wood floor?
Argh!
Fortunately, he was okay. We all feared we would have to redo the entire show in the morning so that it would work without him for the premiere that night. But the circus gods smiled upon him (and us) and everything turned out okay. Never have you heard such a collective sigh of relief.
But there is one good thing to come out of all this.
The video footage is a hoot!**
* Later accounts suggest that it may in fact have been ear first.
** I don't actually like to watch videos of people getting badly hurt. But the laughter coming from those who do suggest that the video is quite amusing.
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