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So, it's an old theater that still has sand weights. This girl is going on stage and, unbeknown to her, she has hooked her arm around the sand weight rope. As she walks on stage, she is gradually pulling the weight up. When she's about half-way on stage she finally notices and just lets the rope slip off her arm. Well, the weight plummets and swings out onto the stage and catches an actor right between his legs. He fell to the ground and the play had to be stopped momentarily.

Another time (and this is at a contest) I was supposed to be carrying a stretcher on. As I'm going on, this girl rushes past me on stage and bumps into me. I move to the right slightly and hit the edge of the stretcher againstly a 6 foot tall pileon (a tall 1 x 6 platform)... and it rocks to the right... then to the left... then really far to the right... then really, REALLY far to the left... then it gradually steadies itself. I could see my director stand up in the back of the auditorium like it was the end of the world.

Once i had just shown up for a show and the light crew was testing the lights, i was walking back stage in pitch dark and a freind of mine thought it would be funny if he hid in the wing curtain and jumped out at me i screamed really loud and whirld around, when i did so i scrapped my hand on one of the many zippers on my pants which wouldnt have been so bad accept the face of the zipper itself was broken off at the time and has a sharp edg it cut my hand pretty deep i have the scar still xp

I heard that in a play called Into the Light, a boy in it tripped over a log during the play onstage. Patrick Stewart messed up a line in his one man play of A Christmas Carol. And tonight, Robert Goulet tripped over a line or two.

During 42nd Street Shuffle off to Buffalo was probably the scariest accident. We were rolling our sleeper train out. They are 2 two-story trains with 2 and a half cars. There are 2 girls in every train. Well my train goes out and I am on the bottom right over a wheel. While rolling it out a wheel broke and wood started to snap. It was the wheel under me! Othere boards started going and my friend ran off from stage right (while the curtain was up) and lifted up the train. It was scary.

Oh yeah, and a few years ago during The Music Man a curtain caught on fire.

I was most recently in Sweeney Todd at a local high school (not my own school). During a performance the first weekend, one the crew members was using an exacto knife to cut excess glue off a prop. His hand slipped and sliced his palm just above the wrist. It was bleeding pretty badly. Other crew members put pressure on it and held his arm above the level of his heart, but he passed out. sweatdrop
He was rushed to the ER. There he had to wait a long time to be seen, but he was fine. Just some loverly stitches.

Another night, I was onstage running to exit down stage-right right after "City On Fire." The people playing 'loonies' were rushing off of steps that were about centerstage, and chasing the rest of the company off. I was moving quickly and slipped. I only fell to my knees, but it still hurt. Luckily it was easy to stay in character and keep going. No worries!

I just remembered this other one from Beauty and the Beast...okay, Maurice's invention. Biggest nightmare of the show. It was this long, massive thing that didn't have rotating wheels and could only roll in parallel paths, so I had to roll it, pick it up, and roll it again. Well, we only had like, 10 seconds to get this thing offstage, so it was always a hassle.

Anyway, we were late one night because one of the whells jammed, and we ended up frantically half-dragging the thing off. The lights were about to go on, so my friend grabs the end of the thing and practically throws it towards the door! It rolled right over my foot, and I had to stuff my fist into my mouth to keep myself from screaming. sweatdrop Worse, I dropped a bench on the other foot half way through the second act, so I was like going "ow ow ow" all through the show.

My school tends to have the most problems with platforms on wheels, my freshman year we did The Music Man, and one of the houses was on wheels, a friend of mine did not make it through the night with out the house rolling over his foot, same sortta thing happend this year with Bye Bye Birdie, for telephone hour we had like 8 platforms and 4 of them were on wheels anyone one on set crew for that scene was lucky if their toes weren't black and blue by the end of our first week. My biggest problem seems to be the staple guns, I was streaching some muslin over a window flat and was juggling the muslin and the staple gun. The gun we have looks like it should shoot one way but it shoots another, which I had know but in my lack of mind I shot it backwards bracing the back of it with the plam of my hand. Staple right into the base of my thumb. It didn't really hurt but was bleading pretty bad so I went and opened the first aid kit. of course there were no bandaids so I got a paper towel, and some duct tape to make a make shift band-aid. My friend threw a fit and made me get some gause to make a proper and steril bandaid (it was obvious she had just finished a semester of sports med) I didn't care either way, its not like it hurt and I did wash it out. oh well, mabey I'm better for it in the end.