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Traditionally, the last shows are full of little gags, mostly unseen by the audience, but with the people on stage realizing that everything isn't going as originally directed. People may be wearing funny acessories, say something else than their actual lines or just do something funny behind the scenes while someone else is performing on stage.

What gags have you done in last shows? Or do you know or have seen any really good gags like these?

In our Kiss Me Kate our Katherine had put a monster mask on after Petrucchio had said that it doesn't matter what she looks like. Then she turns to face him for the first time in the show with the ugly mask on! It took half a minute for our Petrucchio to start singing "Were thine that special face" because he couldn't stop laughing.

What ahhh I wanna do midnight shows! Maybe we can convince her this year, right? Yesssss.

I went and Saw Peter Pan at a high school once and the part where Peter is talking to the Maid he said something funny and everyone was laughing but just over the laughter you could she the actress playing Peter doing hip rolls and go "Don't be a puuuusssssy!" We were all like eek I think that was her final show.

During a rehersal of Les Mis my friend was doing Javert's Suicide so the guy playing Marius stood in the wings and pretended to hang himself and slit his wrists XD Our director came back and yelled at us, otherwise we probably would have done that during the final show. We also interpretive danced to Stars, A Heart Full of Love, and A Little Fall of Rain on the last night. And I slow danced with Thenardier during Drink With me XD

In Lucky Stiff there's this really over dramatic operatic reenactment of a death scene, and on the last night the guy playing him went all out. My friend was on stage and she said it was so hard not to burst out laughing. he also uncensored the word "laid" which we had previously cut out.

My high school director would FLIP OUT every time we improvised. Especially on closing night, because there was no time left to redeem ourselves. "Are you Niel Simon? Are you Shakespeare? Are you Thornton Wilder? NO. You are an actor. You say what they've written for you or you get off my stage."

Usually fun things happen though. Especially in mystery plays or in musicals. Little Shop had the most fun, I think. We dragged out the long silences, exaggerated the movements and Mushnik's aria in "Mushnik and Son" (which the music director wanted to cut in the first place) ended up being about 45 seconds long.

That was actually really professional. And hilarious. I probably wouldn't have had the presence of mind to do something that hilarious.

I so love Earnest. 'I can't believe you're just sitting there eating muffins like there's nothing wrong.'

When our repertory company did it, the lead (the foppish one, I can't remember the character's name and I'm too lazy to look it up.) had a pet goldfish that he carried EVERYWHERE. The fishbowl went in all of these cute little color coordinated bags.

And on the day I saw it, water kept on sloshing all over the place and I had visions of the poor little fish jumping overboard.

You know, if fish could jump and all that jazz.

I was once in a very small show of Peter Pan where I played The Crocodile and Tinkerbell (like I said, small). One day, when I was hiding in the closet for the first scene, Peter forgot to say the line that got me out of the closet. In the end, I just kinda burst out, stomped around, and flew off, with no music to be my voice.

For the last show, at the part where I chased the Captain, I stopped, waved at the audience, showed them a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, rubbed my stomach as to show indigestion [from eating the Captain] and walked off. Everyone really got a kick out of that one.

This wasn't during a show, but our osund director and light director went behind the set of odd couple right behind the windows and pretended they were whatcing the windows.

During the saturday night showing (our second to last show) of The Wizard of Oz, the director put tabasco sauce on the cookies that Hunk and Zeke and whatever the other guys name was and they ate the cookies and omg it was so funny, their faces... and then before it was the scene where they melted the wicked witch, they put water in the bucket and when dorothy poured the water on her... Megan (WWofW) was sooo mad.

when our high school did The Music Man we were told we were allowed to goof off because it was bad enough already and just as long as we dont totally screw up the show it was fine. during the scene when they're all in the gym for "columbia, gem of the ocean", one of the pick-a-little ladies was at the piano (idr what her name was) and she tipped over backwards and we were all trying so hard not to laugh... and she broke the stool. Marian had to like, make sure the legs were perfectly lined up so she didn't fall when she sat down.

During curtain for Beauty and the Beast, my friend stephanie (my fellow gargoyle) came out on stage in a top hat, with a rose and sunglasses. that was slightly amusing.

Last year for Prince Street Player's Cinderella, Prince Charming the First and King Darling the Third did an improve on girls hair color, and how it affects their smartness level. that was amusing. Our director thought it was hilarious, but our musical director had a fit, and it wasn't even his show to have a fit about.