"But if the prompter goes down you're in the shit".
Mr. Heppner's first replacement, John Mac Master, was himself later reported to have been suffering from allergies, and the second, Gary Lehman, slid down the stage and into the prompter's box in one performance, injuring his head.
"We've had things [go] into the prompter five minutes before we taped," the comedian revealed.
The same year he returned to Salzburg for the Emperor Altoum in Puccini's Turandot, while in 2004 he played M Triquet, the old tutor, in Eugene Onegin for WNO at Sadler's Wells Theare in London and M Taupe the prompter in Strauss' Capriccio at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
Buy a nice suit, get a nice haircut and read the words on the prompter in the right order with some semblance of conviction.
For patients in the intervention group, the prompter was relatively busy, with prompting required on 64.7% of patient-days.
The Siege of Rhodes "continued acting 12 days without interruption with great applause" according to the prompter John Downes in his "historical review of the stage" Roscius Anglicanus (1708).
Mr. Hebert was the prompter for Maria Callas in "La Traviata" at the Dallas Opera in 1958, and again in Bellini's "La Pirata" at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1960.
Faintly visible in the right-hand corner are the prompter's hands.
In one climactic moment, standing atop the prompter's box, she capped a defiant outburst with a high C that, like some "Star Wars" light saber, threatened to slice the auditorium right down the middle.
