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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 Jessie on -
Haha! When I did Little Shop of Horrors, one of the girls said when her mike was on "God, I gotta shave my armpits!" Lol!
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Permalink Reply by Ashley Chase on -
just this weekend we opened "sarah ydney takes hollywood by storm". i was playing sarah. opening night was going extremly well. we had a great audience and so far everyone was hitting all their cues. then its lmost the end of the show nd were all sitting onstage waiting for tasha( the famous singer) to come in. then margie the directors assistant is supposed to come on and let the director know that tasha is not going to make it for the "big performance". pretty important iformation right? lol
so yeah about 30 seconds pass and no one comes onstage. so people atart to really obviously improv about different things. more time passes no one enters. so basicly knowing that no one else would do anything about it. i stood up from my spot in the corner, where i was supposed to be not paying attention, took my teeny tiny ipod shuffle out of my pocket. because it was all i had, and pertended it was a phone. so i went though all of her lines and then the scene eventually progressed. i got a big applause afterwards during notes for my "big save". i heard comments from people who were in the audience saying that the tough i was using a bluetooth headset.lol
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Permalink Reply by Liz Skorski on -
me and my friend went to see spring awakening and 2 mess ups! Yikes.. the one part Melchior speaks with Wendla. Wendla just stood there in dead silence and was like ah? and then it poped into her head and she giggled about it. and then in the song and then there were none the adult woman totally forgot a line and then went right into Mortiz singing. You wouldnt notice unless you saw the show a few time before haah
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Permalink Reply by Mark Gordon on -
Wicked at the Gershwin. Every so often, at the end of Popular, Glinda will get a little silly...over the top...and the two actresses will lose it, and start to laugh. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does...it's very funny.
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Permalink Reply by Gabrielle on -
I was in a production of Back to the 80s and very sick one night. All I remember was sleeping backstage (I went on for my two numbers and stayed off for the rest of the show) and having two of my castmates walk in after a scene, one pale and one laughing.
It turns out someone left their mic on backstage and remarked how there was a "bad audience". The audience heard that and broke out into hysterical laughter along with the cast, trying hard not to break onstage. The kid wasn't actually talking about that particular audience... we had two shows that saturday and our afternoon audience was dead, while the audience hearing that terrible remark was the best one we had during the weekend run!
But the absolute most horrible thing I've seen onstage was in Phantom Las Vegas when it opened in 2005. During the Down Once More scene, Anthony Criviello (the Phantom) threw Christine (Sierra Bogess) on the floor, breaking her two front teeth. Of course, the show without an intermission had to be stopped... two techies dressed in black walked onstage, picked her up and took her away. In fifteen minutes, the understudy had to get all dressed and go on with the show as if nothing happened.
And this is why I love theater.
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Permalink Reply by Cason Doyle on -
In my first production, Lend Me A Tenor, Tito was supposed to threten to kill himself with a fork, but he picked up a spoon on accident. Hahaha, I'll never forget that.
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Permalink Reply by Elyssa on -
at our camp we did hairspray. one of my friends walked backstage saying crap i need to f***ing shitty micropohone or something like that and his mic was on and everyone in the audience gasped and later they said to us they heard him cursing backstage.
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Permalink Reply by Samantha Smith on -
I've been lucky to not have too many embarassing mess ups,*knock on wood* but to name a few minor ones...
My freshman year of high school, my drama club performed Guys and Dolls where I played Ferguson the Hot Box Doll. The costume for the song "Take Back Your Mink" was horrible! The tear away dresses we used never liked to "tear away", one of our other Hot Box Dancers perfered not to wear underwear, so the audience saw an entierly DIFFERENT show. One night I took off my pearls and the string snapped and pearls went rolling. The "mink" we used had fuzzballs flying off of it EVERYWHERE where ever we moved. One dress rehersal night, my best friend who was playing Adelaide was singing the beginning part of "Take Back Your Mink" when the horrid mink fuzz flew into her mouth. She starting gagging and choking on stage, and all of us Hot Box girls were just staring at each other in panic. So then I just starting singing Adelaide's solo and the other dolls joined in with me until my friend could spit all of the mink fuzz out of her mouth. And on shownight, my strapless bra was to the point of being around my waist at the end of the dance number.It was only dance moves away from being around my ankles. But luckly, the costumes were so baggy, I don't think the audience really knoticed..
Two summers ago, I was playing Sahara in Sahara Nights (An comedic adaptation of Arabian Nights) I had finished my line that introduced one of the stories Sahara was telling; which was the cue for me to go into tableu and for "Captain Kork" to make his next entrance when he falls from a magic carpet. Well, my friend who played Captain Kork did his falling cue, and then was supposed to roll to center stage. Well, my friend rolled... and then kept rolling... until he finally rolled OFF stage! The audience got a huge laugh, and I had to use one of my storybooks to cover up my face from laughing. It actually worked out perfectly, because Captain Kork's first line was: "Immense headache"
And last spring in my sophmore year of high school, I was playing Belle in my school's production of Beauty and the Beast. In the beginning of Act 2, when Belle is caring for the Beast's wounds, they are arguing back and forth about who's fault it is. Belle's second and third line is "If you'd hold still, it wouldn't hurt as much. " and "If you hadn't of frightened me, I wouldn't have run away!" But SOMEHOW, I managed to mix up two of my own lines saying "If you hadn't of frightened me, it wouldn't have hurt so much!" .......silence. I kinda giggled after knoticing my flubb and went on but I heard someone in the audience wisper: "what?"
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Permalink Reply by Mia J Merrill on -
ha! that's funny, I'm gonna remember that!
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Permalink Reply by Kaela on -
well when i saw hairspray last month there was a mess up.
it was during without love when seaweed is cutting penny out of the ropes. when seaweed took out his pocket knife he tried to flip the blade up. but it wouldn't come up! he started to laugh a little and shook his head no. it was quite funny and the whole audience realized what had happened. the entire audience was cracking up! eventually he got the blade to stay up, and the show went on. but the entire time, i was thinking "this is what makes live theatre the best!"
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Permalink Reply by Ken Davenport on -
How 2 Succeed with Matthew Broderick - Matthew came out for his finale scene, with his fly wiiiiiide open. He had no idea. The audience started laughing. He stopped. Looked down. Turned around. Zipped up. And turned around again with the biggest grin on his face. It was one of my favorite theater moments ever.
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Permalink Reply by Jordan Nickels on -
i played sid in Tom Sawyer (my first play ever!) in my community theatre when i was in third grade. at the end of my big long speech to tom during the fence painting scene, the lights would go out and i would exit. on opening night i finished my speech with "so you better finish that fence, tom" and the lights didnt go off. finally tom improved and said "whatcha gonna do if i don't". i grab his paintbrush, painted my face blue, and yelled "AUNT POLLY, AUNT POLLY, LOOK WHAT TOM DID!" as i ran offstage. the audience died laughing.
i also remember a bench breaking during the chruch song.
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