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Audience laughs and gasps fuel stage stars at Capitan show
Actors recall audience antics that shake performances. A fat man in an aisle sparked a chain of reactions, with lights flickering and the crowd roaring as El Capitan broke the tension with a quip. Other anecdotes feature May Irwin and Burr Molotov recalling rude interruptions and playful retorts from patrons.
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Almont
Metropolitan ‘Opera Hotte
el Capitan
Hopper
Indiones
el Capi
Acta
May Trwin
Rice
Mr. Rice
Geome
Onoal
Widow
Cincinnati
Wormats
Widow Jones
Jones
Wittow Jones
Burr Molotov
Princeton
Mr. Molutorh
Piney Ridge
Mer
Jack
New York