Oh, Ro-meow: Cat steals show during finale of Romeo And Juliet performance in Turkey
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The cat was seen biting and scratching the dancer playing Romeo.
PHOTO: TANYAN BORGER
Victor Mather
There is a rule of live performance that even a fifth-grader playing Beth in Little Women knows: After you die onstage, you do not move. Do not scratch an itch, do not sneeze. Do absolutely nothing.
The skills of a ballet performer whose character had recently expired were put severely to the test in Turkey on June 10 when an orange cat wandered onstage during a performance of the Romeo And Juliet ballet by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.