According to theatrical legend, their act was once erroneously billed at a Chicago theater as "The Glum Sisters."

The enthusiasm of the opening-night audience has become a theatrical legend.

A veteran of 23 plays (more, if you count regional theaters, touring companies and London shows) and 44 films, Miss Havoc had an early life of theatrical legend.

In the United States, Edwin Booth's Hamlet became a theatrical legend.

The show closed after one night and is now somewhat of a theatrical legend.

It is, in a word, brilliant, itself the stuff of theatrical legend.

Baker, who died in 1975, has become a theatrical legend.

The 70-year-old theatrical legend has been nominated for a Tony three times but has never won.

"Macbeth," a play benighted by theatrical legend to begin with, hardly needs the additional curse of an English repertory production that casts a dwarf in the leading role and a murderer as Banquo.

In stage work, actors' union rules often require open casting - the so-called cattle calls that are the stuff of theatrical legend, where the director keeps saying, "Next!"