...I bow while the curtain falls, scraping one foot backwards and awkwardly hitting the prompter's box, giving me a forward drift which sends me over the stage's edge into the orchestra pit, still smiling while falling, headlong into the drums, making a huge clamour and sending the drummer reeling towards the left, tipping over the tuba player who in turn topples most of the brass section. Two trumpeters try to escape the domino effect by dropping forward, thereby starting the same effect on the string section.