Smoking In Broadway Shows — Page 2

I'm not a smoker, for the record. But to think that lighting up one cigarette on stage is going to make all the actors and audience members start talking like an early 80s Lucille Ball...a bit of a stretch.

WOSQ -- when I did Dancing at Lughnasa, the actress who played Maggie was a former smoker. And as you might know, the script directly calls for her to smoke -- a lot. She understandably did not want to smoke actual cigarettes in fear of becoming addicted again. I don't remember how we handled it.

There was quite a bit of smoking that the character of Tom did in the production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at the Circle in the Square. It starred Maureen Stapleton, Rip Torn and Pamela Payton-Wright. The program clearly stated that the cigarettes somked on stage were made from raspberry leaves.

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geez everyone flips out about smoking even if its herbal. So say you got the role of a lifetime you wouldnt smoke herbal cigs that really cause no damage theyre like stage cigs. I would! Im doing Grease right now and we smoke A LOT but we dont care its acting its part of being the part!

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I have yet to see cigarette smoking in a show, at least that I can remember. But there was a ton o' cigar smoking in THE ODD COUPLE. It was a little like being stuffed in that smokey apartment.

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