the stage
Ben, Melanie, Ashley & Alese
Caleb & I...I think we caught an orb on our camera. There is a ghost in the Capitol Theater. We learned about him when we went on a ghost tour of Salt Lake a couple years back. I looked up the story again when I saw this on our picture.
Capitol Theater
This theater is not just a place to see plays and operas. The story goes that a young usher was killed in a fire at the theater in the 1940s. Nicknamed George by the staff, this ghost has never left and still haunts Capitol Theatre. There are many stories circulating among the staff about George. One is that minutes before a production of “The Nutcracker” began, all of the stage lights went out, and nothing the lighting team could do would make them work. Finally, one of the staff looked up and yelled to the room at large, “Damn it, George, knock it off or I’m going to have you exorcised!” The lights immediately came on.
Another story, also involving a security guard (many of whom are there late and are therefore susceptible to ghosts), goes that the night guard, bored on his rounds late one night, amused himself by hurling paper airplanes over the balcony in an attempt to hit the stage. He was more than a little terrified when later in his office, one of the abandoned airplanes came out of nowhere and hit his head.
Daily Utah Chronicle
3 comments:
I'm going to write a play about your going to see "Wicked!" and I'm going to call it "Jealous!"
I saw wicked 2yrs ago in Mesa, and I loved it so much, I am making Scott go with me and see it again in July. If you don't have the soundtrack, you have o get it. I love it!
I remember the ghost tour. And I think that is one in your picture. We all had a great time at the play. The pictures are great. I forgot to take any.
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