[Leica] RETROSPECT 59

[Philippe]

I don’t know that opera -will check- but this is a damn fine picture Bill !

And, of course, I loved he story.

  
Amities

Philippe



> Le 31 mars 2020 à 18:00, Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
>   In 1974, the Houston Grand Opera premiered “The Seagull,” based on the
> Anton Checkov play. The rehearsal did not go well. At one point, the
> libretto called for the sound of a gunshot offstage. The stage hands did
> not have a blank gun for the rehearsal, so they simulated the gunshot by
> slamming a two-by-four on the stage floor. The director was not happy.
> 
> “Where’s the gunshot?” he demanded.
> 
> An apologetic stagehand replied, “We don’t have a gun.”
> 
> “Well,” the director huffed, “there certainly was a gun in Dallas!”
> 
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/The+Seagull_+Houston+Grand+Opera_March_+1974+___+01459.jpg.html
> 
> 
> –Bill
> 
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