"They call him the Jackal"

I was seriously thinking about something today. What if somebody in the company died? Has that ever happened in the history of Kingwood theatre? Someone dying during a production of a play. First of all, that'd just be awkward with all the T-shirts made. And how would we honor them. Would Sheffield just up and say "Oh yeah. Most of you heard but for the rest of you, Greg died last night. But we're here to work." and that be that? Would there be a candlelit vigil in the person's honor or would we all just be "Bummer. Well, back to work." I suppose it would depend on who it was that died. If it was someone essential like anyone in the cast, that's a problem. One of the alternates would have to step up which would A) upset the perfect 16 balance B) be awkward and scary for the person stepping up. A cast death would truly not be a good thing. A crew death would be pretty bad too. The person who took whatever place would have to learn all the crew stuff and get comfortable with it all. An alternate death wouldn't be quite as bad though. It's not like if all of a sudden Wes dropped dead two minutes before our region performance it'd be like "OH HOLY CRAP!! WHAT'RE WE GONNA DO?!?!?!" What if one of us got killed in the line? Perhaps the fight blocking doesn't go just so and Corey gets a punctured lung. That would suck pretty bad. Or like the sewing-machine goes batshit crazy in Webber's room and sews right through somebody. Or maybe Adam lets the handheld saw slip out of his hands and straight into one of the table guys. That would equally suck. What if one of us just goes out onto the middle of the stage during a rehearsal, whips out a gun and says "Well, guess I'm out of the company" and sticks it in our mouth and fires away. That would be awkward. And we'd have to repaint the stage because of the blood. Would we still go on with rehearsal after that? Could we go on really. That would be such an awkward situation. I'm sure it'd become folklore of the KHS stage that the ghost of "Greg" or whoever still haunts the stage and the productions done on it. And what a crazyass ghost that would be.