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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:51 pm
okay...I have three from last years school musical, "Once Upon a Mattress"...
First: Our King, a senior named Luke was known for his long hair...so...not only did he shave his legs for the tights, but he had fun with the stage makeup...up close, he looked like a french whore with his long hair and insane makeup...
Second: Our Princess Fred, Aubrey, right before the song "I'm in Love With a Girl Named Fred" was lifting the weight. Ours was made of styrofoam...the costume people had not had a chance to hem her dress so she slipped on the hem, fell, and broke the weight...yeah...
Third: Aubrey was then doing the sleepy, drinking the potion scene...she got so into acting sleepy that when the Queen handed the beautiful glass goblet, she didn't hold it tight enough and it slipped right out of her hand...it shattered...
Please...post any funny incidents you might have...I would love to hear them.
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:03 pm
Telperion_Laureloth okay...I have three from last years school musical, "Once Upon a Mattress"... First: Our King, a senior named Luke was known for his long hair...so...not only did he shave his legs for the tights, but he had fun with the stage makeup...up close, he looked like a french whore with his long hair and insane makeup... Second: Our Princess Fred, Aubrey, right before the song "I'm in Love With a Girl Named Fred" was lifting the weight. Ours was made of styrofoam...the costume people had not had a chance to hem her dress so she slipped on the hem, fell, and broke the weight...yeah... Third: Aubrey was then doing the sleepy, drinking the potion scene...she got so into acting sleepy that when the Queen handed the beautiful glass goblet, she didn't hold it tight enough and it slipped right out of her hand...it shattered... Please...post any funny incidents you might have...I would love to hear them. Once...Upon...a...Matress? I have never heard of this before... She forgot to add the fact that many of us were hiding rubber chickens all OVER the stage, so there were heads and legs peeking out from various bits of the set. That was so great...we should do something like that for B.B.B.!
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:44 pm
i remember all of that. Wasnt there also with the Luke steping on Sean and saying sry. i dont think very many people caught that.
For a Street Car Named Disire, our prop tech forgot to take the meat off the stage. And i did a black out too early, one too late and for the revue i forgot what i was doing and turned on the house lights before the act was over redface
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:57 pm
Well, when I was in the ensemble of Wizard of Oz last winter... Okay, the Wicked Witch of the West was played by this girl I've known and nearly WORSHIPPED since I was 9.. she's the funniest, nicest, most talented person I've ever known. Anyway, she had never worked with pyrotechnics before, and she had a few scenes involved with fire. At one of our shows, the flaming broom she was holding wouldn't go out, and the fire got bigger and bigger, and she ended up hitting it on the platform she was standing on until the flame went out... it looked really cool, and she didn't lose her character at all. The rest of her scene went smoothly.. but right after that scene she sat backstage and went into shock.. her best friend and boyfriend had to shoo the techies away because everyone was trying to hug her and she was just..scared out of her mind.
We all thought she was gonna die! crying
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:13 pm
In little shop, Two of the techs were in all black of course laying on the floor near one of the pods no ones sure why they were there but Nik (our muchnik) who is a huge guy stepped on one of there stomachs and the other ones leg they leaped up and started silently screaming at him, Oh and we had this thing were everyone came up with Various "tech dances" One was called the oucho Oucho where everyone had to pop there botties it was really popular but we never told the actors what it was we would just randomly Scream say oucho oucho to one or just start doing it in front of them.
DUring the construction of rumors i was bending over to dip my paint brush and my gay freind came up behind me and grabbed my a** and didnt realize it was him behind me and i screamed really loud and all the other techs there turned and looked at me eek
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:23 am
Our school did Little Shop last semester, also. I think the show was the night before closing, and just after curtain call everyone dashed to the dressing rooms and two of the leads screamed "p***s!" repeatedly out of some kind of male urge or tradition. Anyway, their body mics hadn't been turned off and the house was still pretty full. You do the math. surprised
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:58 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:40 pm
SaturnsRings i remember all of that. Wasnt there also with the Luke steping on Sean and saying sry. i dont think very many people caught that. For a Street Car Named Disire, our prop tech forgot to take the meat off the stage. And i did a black out too early, one too late and for the revue i forgot what i was doing and turned on the house lights before the act was over redface Hee hee...I remember that. That meat was out on the table for like, two weeks.
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:31 am
On the first night of our play, this one guy forgot his line. Thanks to the long akward pause, a girl tried to improv and unknowingly skipped about 5 pages of the skript. It was a crucial part in the play where this guy tells a scary story and scares this one girl. Well we went on the best that we could, until we got to the part where the guy who told the story had to apoligize for scaring a girl. He was supposed to say, "Sorry. My story probably didn't help much." He said, " You know, if I had told a scary story, you would have been really scared!" It wsa really bad. sweatdrop
Another time (and another play), it was my solo number and the director decided to play THE VOCALS during my song. Unfortuantly, it was the soundtrack to the MOVIE version, which was about an octave above what I was supposed to sing. She did this for EVERY song. No one could hear anyone; she blasted the soundtrack over everyone. When asked why, she said she thought that we would make a mistake if we didn't have the song playing. We hated her SO much. stare
The same director broke her leg right before the first show, then broke her OTHER leg trying to get to the stage right after the show. We all decided what really happened was that the tech directer pushed her down the stairs. xd
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:50 am
1. our very first play with a new director. we were joking around backstage and my friend ben picked up kyle, gave him a great big bear hug and swung him around. sometime during that waltz, kyle blacked out due to a lack of oxygen and went limp in ben's arms (sounds like a love story.) we laid him down on the stage and prayed that our director wouldn't come back and find one of the leads spread-eagle with his eyes open.
2. right before our performance of 'a connecticut yankee', everybody was in the girls' dressing room goofing around. alex, our king arthur, began crawling up between two walls with his feet and hands. when he reached the ceiling, he tried to rotate 360. however, he fell about 7 ft, hit the floor chest first, and didn't move. for about 3 seconds, everyone believed him to be dead. then he moved, scared us, and all the girls began beating the living crap out of him. He tried to escape, screaming, "I'm alive! I'm alive! Stop hitting me!" but we were just so irked at him for almost killing himself.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:17 pm
So, I'm doing Wait Untill Dark, and I'm one of the thieves (Can't remember the name, the one that gets stabbed). It's a performance, and it's me and the other thief and during the scene he has to take stuff out of the fridge and make a sandwich. Only... the fridge had been unplugged since last night and only just been plugged back. So I was him pull out MOLDY bread, and this warm, rancid mayo, and cheese, and meat... And he eats it!
He eats the sandwich and doesn't even flinch!
But this was a guy where if you forgot a line and skipped that one and then his next one and right your next he would get confused and say his line that you skipped and it would ruin the flow.
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 1:04 pm
We were putting on "It's a Wonderful Life" and I was on sound. The other sound person was absent that day (a rehearshal luckily), and I was alone... and at that time I wasn't very confident about my abilities on sound. Anyway, at the end of the play, Zuzu says, "Daddy, teacher says that everytime a bell rings an angel get's it's wings." and that was my cue for the bell sound effect. Well, I definatly had the sound track CD on the WRONG TRACK, and I pushed play, and a car horn starts going off. Everyone on stage looked around really confused, and the Student Tech Directors, over headset, go, "NIKKI WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I just started cracking up and turned off the track, then played the right one.
That same show, we had a snow bag to, ya know, make it look like it was snowing. Well anyways, at the final show, we were talking about dumping all the snow for the last scene we needed it for (it was supposed to look like a blizzard), since we would have to throw it all away anyways, and plus our tech director wasn't there for that show. Well, caught up in this conversation, EVERYONE missed the cue for that.. which included lights, sound and ropes, and the student tech directors missed it too. The main character looked around, confused as to why nothing was happening, and I, over headset, said "WE MISSED IT!" The other actor who was supposed to go on stage runs out, and the STD goes, "GO GO GO!" So I played the wind, lights flashed, and the rope guy, DUMPED.. LITERALLY.. DUMPED the snow onto stage... all at once! It was so funny! I wasn't prepared for that, forgot my headset was on, and screamed "OH MY GOD!" haha. That was hilarious. From that day, it was called 'The Apocolypse'. It was so great. Then of course we had to clean it up, and I got many comments about it the next day at school.
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:26 pm
I have lots of funny incidents from random shows I've done, might as well spout them now.
Under Milk Wood: It wasn't exactly an incident, but it was still pretty funny, at least at the time. I don't think our director realized until the last week of rehearsal that one of the actors was playing two characters, who were both in the same scene together. The situation was, there were at least 60 characters in the whole show, and we only had about 13 people to play the parts, so he could switch parts with someone. So what he had to do was, basically, talk to himself. Quite funny.
Anne of Green Gables: Oh boy, I hated this show. We did it in the Forum, the outdoor theater. One of the days when we were preforming, it started to rain, and there was no time to move the set to an indoor stage, so we had to keep the show going. During one of the songs, "Summertime" I think it was called, all the little kiddies ran on stage. Since I was the first to come on, I climbed up the stairs, than slipped on some water at the last one. I fell right on my face. It hurt a lot. mad
Waiting in the Wings: Okay, so one character was supposed to have a heart attack on these two chairs we had put together. When she did so during a preformance, she fell on the chairs awkwardly, and toppled over, bringing the chairs with her. So we have a "dead" character in a heap on the ground, and we're standing there trying our hardest not to laugh as the light fades.
Good times.
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Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:18 pm
1) My school did Once Upon a Mattress last year! biggrin Fun show
2) During our one acts last year we were doing "A Simple Task" and the guy that was supposed to be the lover, he got kneed in the groin. It was supposed to be fake but two out of the three shows he really got kneed bad xp Poor Cory
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:16 pm
xd
Okay, I've got a couple.
We just finished "Robin Hood (Sort of)" It's a parody version of the classic Robin Hood tale. I played Maid Marian. The guy who played the Sherrif of Nottingham started to get a nosebleed while he was announcing that he sought my hand in marriage (that's what he said afterward, anyway) There was a long pause where he forgot his line after saying "Your uncle has given me your hand in marriage" At the spur of the moment, I shouted "I'll never marry anyone who forgets his line!" the audience loved it, and the show went on.
The next night held a surprise as well. King John is supposed to prevent the Sherrif of Nottingham from killing Little John. The lines go "No! You can't!" "Why not?" "Because I just married you two!" (There's a stupid pun that comes from an earlier line that I don't care to explain right now). Earlier that day, I dared the girl playing King John to say "Because I love him!" after the sherrif asked why.
She did.
None of us were expecting that (not even me!) and so everyone onstage burst into laughter.
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