Of sport and music

You are likely surprised to see another post from me due to my busy postless week. I have been playing piccolo in the Opera for the season of Rigoletto for the NZ Opera. We get to play on-stage behind the curtain and see what all the actors/singers get up to. In one scene, the theme of "women as objects" is depicted through the use of mannequins and we (the musicians) were told to leave space for the actors to rush to their on-stage positions with their mannequins. Some of us didn't hear the instruction so I passed it on as "please leave space for them to make a dummy run!". Typical musicians - nobody got the joke.