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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:13 pm
Lol, my BF (of 6 monthes) played in the Pit Band for Smokey Joes and we broke up that night after i went to see his show....
anyone else have bad life expeirences related or pseudo-related to theatre?
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:25 pm
This didn't to me, but in a show I was watching.
It was an old theatre, still used sandweights. An actress was going on stage and arm hooked the pulley. So she starts going on stage, unbeknownst to her that she's lifting this sand weight higher and higher. Finally, she realizes it and just pulls her arm away, letting the sandweight drop. It swings right across the stage and hits the actor right in the crotch. No way to recover, the guy just drops the floor. It was horrible, funny, but horrible.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:32 pm
Costume Malfunction: everyone could see my panties
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:37 pm
doing a butchered version of Fame: the musical ('nuff said)
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 6:58 pm
One time I was at a production of Romeo and Juliet and there was someone who was whistling in the Audience and Romeo stops in the middle of a big long passage and he stops and says "could who ever is whistling please stop we're trying to put on a play for you people". Most un professional.
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:16 pm
Once during Ten Little Indians, someone messed up and skipped almost five pages of the script and we didn't know what the hell to do! People were going on stage, people going off, there were the wrong number of figures on the mantle so we had to improve for like five minutes.
It was horrible!
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WickedElphie Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:50 pm
All the way back in middle school, I was tuptim in the King and I, and the collar of costume was too tight. And everytime I went down on my knees on it, whhich is a lot because all he does is bow, I couldn't breathe. The director told me I couldn't cut the collar because it was a rental.
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:38 pm
I was Bottom in a Midsummer Night's Dream. I fell down, pretending to die (it was a play within the play), but unfortunately, my shirt came up. So, I pulled it down, and then my pants came down. By now the entire audience was laughing, so I sat up really quick and yelled "I'm dead," then fell down and actually died.
Fortunately, this sort of thing was actually in character for Bottom, so it wasn't a big mistake like Romeo made...
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High-functioning Werewolf
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:03 pm
My worst theatre experience would have had to be when I was in school acting class. We picked and performed one-acts, which we were fully responsible for- memorization, costumes, blocking, sound effects, props and rehearsal management.
My partner and I were friends so needless to say, with little supervision, we didn't do a whole lot of rehearsing. Crunch time, we got the play....acceptable. We'd paraphrase.
In this 18 page script that's supposed to last 20 minutes, we managed to pare it down to about 12 pages and make it last about 25 minutes for all the lines we forgot, totally BS'd and not to mention the uncomfortably long pauses.
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:15 pm
I think the worst thing that I was was a one act play called Werewolf? where the main actor, a freshman of course, had a hole in the crotch in his pants. And he wasn't wearing underwear. A very disturbing evening.
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:09 am
WickedElphie Once during Ten Little Indians, someone messed up and skipped almost five pages of the script and we didn't know what the hell to do! People were going on stage, people going off, there were the wrong number of figures on the mantle so we had to improve for like five minutes. It was horrible! See that would be even funnier if within the five pages skipped some one had died. Did some one die within those five pages? I would have laughed my a** off if I saw that show and that happened. Ten Little Indians is one of my favorite dramas. Just because And Then There Were None has always been my favorite book.
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:31 pm
All during Les Miserables, we had malfunctions. During the matine Our Marius Died at the wrong time and our Enjrolas (who was speaking to him) looked over to speak to him and he wasn't there but laying on the floor pretending to be dead, before he was soupposed to.
Then on Friday Night a Microphone malfunction occured, Our Marius was backstage and changing clothes, the mike people accendently turned on his mike and heard throughout the auditorium: "Is there Tape on my Butt?"
Then On Saturday's show, our last one, Mr. Tradiner (sorry can't spell) Steped on our sewage drain, an ac vent not capable of holding more than five pounds, and broke it. Later in the Show, Crew members were fixing it while the show was still being performed.
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WickedElphie Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:22 pm
PossessedByDevil WickedElphie Once during Ten Little Indians, someone messed up and skipped almost five pages of the script and we didn't know what the hell to do! People were going on stage, people going off, there were the wrong number of figures on the mantle so we had to improve for like five minutes. It was horrible! See that would be even funnier if within the five pages skipped some one had died. Did some one die within those five pages? I would have laughed my a** off if I saw that show and that happened. Ten Little Indians is one of my favorite dramas. Just because And Then There Were None has always been my favorite book. Yes actually! But it was the butler, so he was already off stage getting killed when it happened, but Wargrave had not come back yet, so a bunch of us had to go off and come back to cover who the murderer was. It was horrible! And the same thing almost happened the next night, but I had put a script on stage so before the person could skip ahead I stopped her and read the correct line.
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:36 am
WickedElphie PossessedByDevil WickedElphie Once during Ten Little Indians, someone messed up and skipped almost five pages of the script and we didn't know what the hell to do! People were going on stage, people going off, there were the wrong number of figures on the mantle so we had to improve for like five minutes. It was horrible! See that would be even funnier if within the five pages skipped some one had died. Did some one die within those five pages? I would have laughed my a** off if I saw that show and that happened. Ten Little Indians is one of my favorite dramas. Just because And Then There Were None has always been my favorite book. Yes actually! But it was the butler, so he was already off stage getting killed when it happened, but Wargrave had not come back yet, so a bunch of us had to go off and come back to cover who the murderer was. It was horrible! And the same thing almost happened the next night, but I had put a script on stage so before the person could skip ahead I stopped her and read the correct line. Aw, that's great. That's so ******** funny.
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:39 am
Mister I think the worst thing that I was was a one act play called Werewolf? where the main actor, a freshman of course, had a hole in the crotch in his pants. And he wasn't wearing underwear. A very disturbing evening. Ahh! How big was the hole?
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