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I tripped over a chord trying to get offstage during a blackout... O_o It really hurt.. lol but I still managed to climb offstage before the lights came up.. which was lucky because my director hates blackouts so they are all VERY short. Buuut.. I didn't want the lights to come up and have my legs sticking out from the wings.... lol so I sucked up the pain and crawled as fast as I could.
lol stupid stage crew were laughing at me... ^_^;

This didn't happen to me but...
In a one-act play, my friend had to tap out morse code with a pencil. Unfortunatly, she decided to use an extremely sharpened one and managed to impale her hand. She had to stay on stage for five more minutes before being able to exit. Ow.

When I was in Barnum, there was a part where us girls were supposed to go up on a guy's shoulder. We were supposed to pair up with someone near our own height, but by some freak twist I (near the shortest) ended up paired with Mike (the tallest). Well, during one of the performances we were all set to do the lift, and somehow we must've leaned back too far or something, cause we fell backwards. I fell off Mike and landed half on the stair. Hurt like hell. I had a huge bruise on my a** for awhile, not to mention the embarrasment of falling like that onstage.

My old school's theater has 4 lofts up on the walls of the house, 2 towards the back for follow spots, and 2 towards the front for mounted lights. When I was teching for Christmas Schooner I was climbing the ladder to the house right front loft to get something that Billy left up there. On the way down, but still over halfway up my foot slipped. Luckily, I had a good grip and caught myself before I fell. I'm not sure exactly how high the lofts are, but it's pretty damn high. Almost falling down that scared the hell out of me.
I think that theatre has it in for the drama teacher, Mr. Aleshire, tho. He's had some bad luck in there. He fell and broke his wrist when he was up the wood loft backstage, and he broke his ankle coming down from the catwalks.

during a dress rehearsal of Les Miserables, some one grabbed someones mic and started sing Turn the Beat Around during the Barricade Scene

Forgot to add this. During a matinee of Beauty and the Beast (just ended) the rope to the roof of the cottage snapped in the middle of the scene where the mob is storming the castle. It was the worst possible moment for the thing to happen, since everone is on stage right underneath it and a second later erupts the battle in which everyone runs around on/off stage in mass hyseria. It's the scene where I usually shoved Chip's cart onstage and then raced up the ladder to the loft to get the hell out of the way. So yeah, basically it ended in Cogsworth grabbing the broken rope and running it offstage and five techies holding onto it for dear life yelling 'stop the show' to a mob that couldn't hear us over the dramatic orchestra and screaming villagers. Fun. Luckily no one was hurt, but still...fun.

*nods to the above 2 posters in rememberance*

Remember, to all you techies, if you see something that's a potential danger to the actors on stage that needs fixing RIGHT THAT SECOND, you have every right to yell out "CLEAR THE STAGE" or "STOP THE SHOW" in case of emergency...

sweatdrop but make sure the actors can hear you... that was our problem.

In our dancing production of the lion king there is a scene where the hyenas have to get behind this skull. and i was the last one that had to go behind it. 'Ed' was in front of me and I didnt realise that I had my foot on her tail and she was crawling forward to get under the skull more and her whole tail came off..... sweatdrop so she didnt have a tail for the graveyard scene...