Laura Linney's Ghostly Encounter at the Belasco

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 9:09am

"Actress Laura Linney was forced to review her disbelief in ghosts when she saw a spectre at New York's Belasco Theater. The play house is famously haunted, but skeptic Linney felt sure she wouldn't come across a spirit - because she wasn't open to the idea. She says, "I was doing a play called Honor and the theatre is notoriously haunted. I heard about the legends of it for years, being a theatre person. The ghosts usually show up when the play is about to open and sure enough, we were doing a final run-through and I looked up and there in the upper balcony, which is a balcony that you can have no access to because it's locked from the street, I saw a woman standing at the balcony. She was at the edge of the balcony in a baby blue satin dress and blonde crimped hair. It didn't scare me. I just saw her there and I just thought, 'Hello,' and then I turned and said a line to my co-star, and then I looked up and the ghost was gone." A few days after her "little invitation", Linney took the story to the theatre manager, who filled her in with the place's dark past. She adds, "He told me that the electric guys will not go in the basement. The deceased theatre owner, David Belasco, supposedly shows up along with this one woman. So, I believe in ghosts now. I've experienced that." "

as per IMDB

[Katecab99]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 9:32am

wow. that's creepy.

i only made it as far as the belasco box office, but it certainly looked a little frightening.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 10:23am

SWEENEY TODD should be there, not the Eugene O'Neill.

The Belasco creeps the living hell out of me. Haha, I love it!

Updated On: 9/1/05 at 10:23 AM