In the production I was in, it was an outdoor theater. Opening night I was in the orchestra pit early, warming up. It was abnormally windy that evening, and one of the stage props (a pew, for the opening scene with nuns singing), was blown into the orchestra pit. It fell about 8 feet to the pit floor-thank God no one was sitting there yet, they might’ve been killed. That pew weighed about 50-60 lbs.
Memories of summer stock….