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Mess-ups on stage?
have you ever performed in or seen a show, local, on broadway, or wherever, where there was an obvious mess-up on stage? i have several. for example, when i saw young frankenstein, Jon Patrick Walker, understudy for Dr. Frankenstein that i saw, when he came out for Tansylvania Mania, his mustache was gone. When act 2 began, the stache was back. *dramatic music*
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on -
When I saw Wicked in Atlanta they always had something weird happen during Popular. Elphaba was Carmen Cusack and Glinda was Katie Rose Clark. Well during Popular the first night, I'm not really sure what happened but Katie was on the bed hugging Carmen from behind and she like spit on her hair or something, you know how people do that when they're singing or talking lol. And she stopped and like wiped her wig, and then got off the bed to keep going with the scene. and she was like "Elphie....Elphie, look at me. Stop laughing" at which point Carmen totally lost it and started laughing, it was great. Also in that show during the catfight Katie fell over, I felt bad for her. But she got up and was like "I'm okay!" and kept going. And another time I saw the show, again during popular, Glinda was talking and she was like "Elphie, are you listening to me?" and I looked and Carmen was climbing behind her bed because the witch's hat fell. And then Katie's shoe fell off. She just picked it up and kept doing the scene, dancing around during the la la's with only one shoe on. When she got to the hair tossing part she said something along the lines of "Now, I'm going to show how to toss your hair. Then we'll get to shoes." The audience just died laughing.
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Permalink Reply by Connie on -
During Oliver my hair got stuck in someone's vest...very embarrassing...
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Permalink Reply by Betsy on -
I was in 42nd Street, and during the lullabye of Broadway, right before the big kickline that starts with "COOOOOMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....." I started like 4 counts early belting my lungs out! about half the cast turned around to look and laugh. i was mortified!
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this doesn't beat my friend's mess up!
On the lyric in "there's a sunny side to every situation" "when your car is out of gas, then no red lights you can pass" we had made up silly lines and he accidentally said the silly line during a performance! "when your car is out of gas, pinch your nose and fart some gas!!!"
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Permalink Reply by arthur on -
Where do I begin, its not really much that I mess up its just props react weirdly.
opening night of high school musical in the first song I did a kick as ryan and my shoe went flying and I just acted like it didn't happen and people thought it was meant to happen. It flew in front of me but then flipped and went behind the comapny on stage so when the curtain closed it I picked it up. Also sharpay never came out during one scene and I when we revealed ourselves from beind the books we were hiding- so what I did was I just pretended to call her up and then the dumbass sharpay comes behind me and just says "I'm here" while my improvisation was going perfectly saying mine and her lines in a way they fit perfectly- but she fucked it up!
Another time when something happened on stage was during aesops falables when the wolf is trying to get the grapes the grapes fell and I caught them and then I was saying "yes, yes, yes" (but I was jumping and then on the third jump I made it seem like they bounced up and went back on to the tree and the mouse caught them again- and it was really good. I also didn't come out on stage for about 30 seconds in once scene and the jack in the box was just there sitting really pissed saying where is that dumb wold!
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Permalink Reply by Kari on -
Oh, just remembered something.
Once I was in Damn Yankees, and was supposed to be a baseball player, but people kept quiting and I had to take their parts. So I soon became Ms.Weston,Postmaster, Girl at Club and Fan. They were all pretty small, but combined it was a pretty deccent size. That always happens to me. I ceratinly don't mind. :0)
So anyways, for one scene, I was supposed to walk on, say "Here's the list" and give it to this kid, I forget who. Unfortunately, he forgot and had left.
I was pretty young, and was like AHH! So what I did was all nervous say "Umm here's the list," and give it to the kid playing Joe Hardy.
Which makes no sense.
Haha.
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Permalink Reply by Stephanie on -
In my high school we did Aida, two years ago. Which is this HUGE musical. Everyone loved it so we did an encore. Well, there was a terrible storm outside and during a really intense part the power went out just as Aida was saying "You know NOTHING about me! And care even less!" It was so terriying. But then it all came back on it and was fine. Most people thought it was part of the show cause it was intense and only add the to scene.
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Permalink Reply by Blair Andrew Russell on -
I was in a production of Anything Goes at my school, as Moonface Martin, we used bunk beds for the ship's cabin scene and i had to move it on myself so when the lights went out, i heard something crack but didn't think about it and just threw it off stage. During the scene as i am having breakfast in bed, the flimsy bunk beds is lopsided and you hear more cracks as the audience gasps, so instead of my normal line "will you take this thing it is breaking my leg," i said "will you take this things it's breaking the bed." Then i just hopped off and continued the scene.
I saw a Beauty and the Beast, where a dish tripped up the stairs, best part of the show.
I just did Midsummer and we had a million kids being fairies and one as the changeling boy. Well he was only about 5, so not 1, or 2, but 3 times he escaped onstage. During Helena and Hermia's fight, during Act 4, and right after Pyramus and Thisbe. also the dog escaped and ran around the stage and growled at the cast.
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Permalink Reply by Blair Andrew Russell on
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I did this show last year, and Mulan's STUPID mic got stuck in her STUPID helmet so we sat there for 5 minutes with her looking STUPID as her mic just swung back and forth! that needs to be changed for the show to work.
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Permalink Reply by Josh T. on -
Last Night, in a performance of Anne of Green Gables, I was playing the role of Matthew Cuthbert. In the scene where Matthew dies from a heart attack, right after dying, i heard one person in the audience laugh. it knd of threw me off, enough so that when i walked offstage, i walked into a bench. And seriously, what kind of person laughs at death on stage?
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Permalink Reply by Chloe on -
Okay, in 6th grade(My 1st show at drama club) we were performing "Into the Woods Jr.", and the sound system went wrong,so we had to send someone to improvise. So instead of extra dialouge(Spellin's wrong), we got a kid named Michael dancing on stage! It was HILARIOUS!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Gabe Vazquez on -
In a production of The Wiz, we had Glinda come on this rock/throne thing which had a few steps for her to step down off it. So opening night, she took one step off the throne and *WHAM*, she slides down the steps but manages to not fall. She let out a loud "WOAH" into her mic so there really wasn't a way to play it off. We all just looked at eachother trying to fnd ways to play it off but we just kept goig with the way the scene was supposed to go.
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