Talk:Green room

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Does anyone have any sources for any of this?

Green has an effect on the human mind which relaxes people. Im not sure exactly if thats the effect but im very sure it has an effect.

A possiblity of its origin is that it was called the "Scene Room" at one point. A room where the scenes were constructed or housed before they needed to be moved on stage.

It is my understanding that its is called a green room because historically it was where everyone met to get paid after a performance.

Green room vs. dressing room
This may be a UK/US difference, but in my experience and according to, the Green Room is a social area for actors to hang out between appearances. This is different from the dressing room which is used for changing costumes. Additionally, the phrase "Green Room" has come to mean a time after a rehearsal for the director to critique performances, probably because it is normally held in the Green Room. Can anyone expand on this? –Shoaler (talk) 15:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Trivia
Many green rooms are decorated in anything but green, because some actor think that green is a bad omen in theater. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boris Crépeau (talk • contribs) 06:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I have been in several green rooms, and only one of which was painted green. (It was one of the best green rooms, however.) 24.108.198.251 (talk) 23:21, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Limelight
What's up with limelight/green room connection? Lime is white and I'm pretty sure the light it casts is, too. 24.160.242.185 (talk) 22:40, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Clean Up
I am working on cleaning up this page and finding citations for flagged parts. welcome any suggestions. Mdukas (talk) 17:07, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Other Meanings
There is a reference here to a local band in Wollongong, NSW, Australia. With fewer than 12,000 visits on their myspace page, I dispute that the inclusion here of this band meets Wikipedia standards for relevance. It seems more like an advertisement. poncirus173.66.14.55 (talk) 00:31, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, seems like good argument.  I will delete the mention. --Mdukas (talk) 16:26, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Is the term 'green room' actually used to mean 'greenhouse'? If so, where? (and i the sentence itself is fairly garbled or tautological, in describing windows--what windows? ) Can this be deleted? or should the usage be tied to a specific locale? Actio (talk) 06:27, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Rewrite and Citations tags pulled
I can't speak to the remaining Wikipedia Quality Standards rewrite tag, but I've deleted the citations tag and the general rewrite tag as the article is IMHO very nicely done and is as fully cited as one can wish for documenting a recondite item of show business jargon.

Aside, I feel compelled by scholarship to note here parenthetically the contemporary interpretation of Green Room, to wit, the room to which the performers repair for the pre-performance "union meeting" or "safety meeting" around the hour of 4:20, but as this might be viewed as controversial or as original research, I have not added mention to the article itself. JacquesDelaguerre (talk) 19:30, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Do most theatres actually have a green room? Having done a little bit of amateur acting myself, I don't remember one. Usually, people stay in their dressing room if not on fairly soon, and if they are they hang around in the wings. PatGallacher (talk) 20:43, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

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Theatrical superstition
I've a clear recollection of hearing, once upon a time, that the term comes from a superstition whereby the colour green was considered unlucky on stage, and so the green room would be a room in which the colour can safely be enjoyed. But there's no mention here of this theory. I probably also heard that green rooms were originally actually painted green. I've done a quick web search, and there are a few pieces about green being allegedly unlucky, but I haven't managed to find anything suggesting this as the origin of "green room". Indeed, one piece suggests that the colour green is/was unlucky even in the green room!

Can anyone shed light (be it green or some other colour) on this theory? — Smjg (talk) 23:49, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Easy on the eyes
The background on my pc desktop is a shade of green. I find it easy on the eyes. I imagine a literally green room would help actors stay calm before preformance (unlees they were to do some dastardly act on stage, in which case being agitated might help the performance:) 51.194.85.80 (talk) 16:07, 2 September 2023 (UTC)