Ghost Story of the Day: Mark Ruffalo's Wet Willy from David Belasco

The straight play "Awake and Sing" by Clifford Odets was at the Belasco in  2006. The ghost of the theater owner and impresario David Belasco is known to play benign pranks on visiting actors. Mark Ruffalo played a gangster in the show and as a method actor, when his character went into the bedroom to take a nap, Ruffalo would walk through the set and lay down on a cot outside the set wall.. Of course, the nearby carpenters, Big Al and Little Al,  would harass him. One night, Ruffalo got a wet willy. He brushed the finger away and said, "Big Al, stop it!" No one was there. We believe that the ghost of David Belasco gave Mark Ruffalo a wet willy.