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mwrather:

Hours of rehearsal can go into the most sublime, subtle, and sensitive acting moment on stage.Then, at any given performance, some guy with too much phlegm can just cough right over it…and no one will notice your work.

via Playgoer

In improv’s case, while we may not practice individual scenes so much, a distracted audience member can often spoil a whole scene for the people around them.