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Have you ever been in one of those plays and it just seemed like the theatre gods just did not want if to happen?

My theatre teacher at school told me a story about a production of Jesus Christ: Superstar up at North Carolina School of the Art. This is the story of how they went through four Jesuses in one night.

Appernelty, the show was going along fine until intermission when Jesus gets food poisoning and stars vomiting blood. Beedless to say, they imediatly brought him to the hopital. So we're on the Jesus #2. So they're doing the Crucifixion scene and the guy comes out to stab Jesus with the spear. There was supposed to be a fake blood capsule at the end so it look like he was bleed. The only problem was that Jesus #2 was originally the guy who stabbed him so the guy stabbing Jesus didn't know this so he used a real spear. Needless to say, Jesus #2 gets cut pretty badly, goes to the hopital and gets like.... 50 stitches.

Jesus #3 comes up to finish the show... they're one the scene where Jesus ascends to Heaven. They were just gonna attatch a rope to him and drop and sandbag and up he would go. Only problem is Jesus #3 weighs about 50 lbs less than Jesus #1. So they drop the sand bag and jesus goes skyrocketing into heaven, hits his head, and get's a concussion and is also taken to the hospital.

So Jesus #4 finished up what little of the show there is. Basically seems God did not want that show to go one, hm?

Discuss: shows that seemed doomed.

'A Show of Hands'. It's the first show our Community Theater has ever canceled. The reason was because the directors suicidal daughter ran away, and another director casted the show, but she casted it really wrong because it was supposed to be a teen musical and it had kids in it that were like...I think the oldest was 14. It was so wrong. So, we canceled it. And we're terrified of it now....beware the cursed musical...

I was in a show my friend wrote called "Sky of Kyo" a year or so ago. It was about the death of feudal Japan, and the plot was actually really cool, but since way too many Americans have no idea what the hell feudalism even is, it was pretty doomed from the beginning. Not that it wasn't a brilliant plot. It was just really high-brow for American High School theatre. And we spent way too much time on the history and learning aspects and not nearly enough time actually rehearsing our lines.

During the preview, I'm pretty sure we told one of the integral characters "you're a gimpy Japanese innkeeper who hates Russians, but loves vodka. Improv it."

Needless to say, the curtain did not open for Sky of Kyo.

Oh yeah! It was a totally sweet play, unfortunately, the play's writer is like, the poster child for ADHD and so the rehearsals won't exactly what you'd call focused.

That and feudal Japan just isn't as teached in America as it is in Japan, and this kid didn't really get it, he just assumed that everybody knew who the shinsengumi were, what the samurai did, and so on.

I think his play will do well in Japan, though. All of them, actually. He's written 3 in the past 2 years. He's a little insane.

Wow

Heh, when we did Godspell, our Jesus had a nervous breakdown at the dress rehearsal

: P

It sounds so good, too...D=. If he'd let someone touch "Sky of Kyo" up a bit so that Americans would understand, it'd probably be amazing...

Well I guess you could call our production of the breakfast club a little doomed. We started with a mrs. Vernon played by a student but she has to quit because too little time. Then we had another teacher playing Vernon but she had too quit too and we ended up with our director (also a student) playing Vernon because we hadn't enough time to cast a new Vernon.

...Wow. Good luck.