Werner's Readings & Recitations: No. 31, Hallowe'en Festivities
Witches' Dance
Music:"Tam O'Shanter." (sent for 50 cents.)
Enter eight witches riding brooms and dancing around stage in a circle, while constant hissing is kept up as if lots of cats were present.
After Witches have completed one circle, they reverse and go around stage in opposite directions. (Stage is lighted with white light.)
Witches straighten into one long line at each side of stage with brooms at side. they whirl brooms in air and lines swing into one long line facing audiences with hissing sound. (Stage is lighted with red lights.)
Witches clump handles of broom on stage three times and meow. (Stage is lighted with green light.)
Witches whirl brooms in air again; line divides at C. and swings back to sides with hissing sound. (Stage is lighted with white light.)
Witches clump brooms on floor three times and meow. (Stage is lighted with green light.)
Witches drop broom ends on floor and drag them; lines approach each other and pass each other to opposite sides of tiptoe saying "sh-uh sh-uh" in most witchly fashion.
At opposite sides, Witches face back of stage in two long lines and, hissing fast and loud with brooms in air, rush back sidewise to opposite sides of stage. As witches pass each other at stage C. the hissing should be very fierce. (Stage lighted with yellow light.)
Lines face stage front, brooms held high in air in front. Witches trip wildly across front of stage and around to back of stage, meowing as they go, passing at stage front C. and meeting at stage back C., all the time whirling brooms. (Stage lighted with red light.)
Forming into couples at stage back C., Witches ride brooms to stage C., then, hissing loudly, form one long line across stage facing audience. (Stage lighted with yellow light.)
Witches rest brooms on floor and, holding them still, dance around them by way of R.; around them by way of L., leering at guests. (Stage lighted with white light.)
Witches move around C. of stage in circle, clumping handles of broom "clump, clump, clumpety, clump," all around the circle; putting brooms between legs, ride of stage with hissing sound. (Stage lighted with yellow light.)
Excerpt Taken From:
Schell, Stanley. Werner's Readings & Recitations: No. 31, Hallowe'en Festivities. New York, NY: Edgar S. Werner & Co., 1903.
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