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Ballarat Fall - May 27, 2007

Well folks, here it is. The moment I fell off the stage at His Majesty’s Theatre in Ballarat. It’s an audio file, to the best of my knowledge no one filmed the incident, which is perhaps no bad thing. What you are listening to here is the very beginning of the show. The opening sequence requires me to be silhouetted from the back and dry ice pumped around my feet (those of you who have seen the show will know why). When the bagpipes finish, the stage lights come up, and I usually walk forward to reveal a rather amusing gag (wink, wink). On this occasion, three things went wrong. Firstly, whoever was in charge of the dry ice machine got a little trigger happy. Secondly, the stage lights that shone directly into my face were bright enough to light a football stadium. And thirdly, and crucially, the only part of the theatre in complete darkness was a 12 foot orchestra pit drop at the front of the stage…which I didn’t know was there! As I now mention in my show, the whole set up couldn’t have been any more dangerous if it had been designed by Al Qaeda and built by the first 2 little pigs.

Enjoy this, but not too much...