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 Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 3:25 am
funny incidents are fun. and funny too.
when we did how to succeed in the song coffee break i was the one who was supposed to smack the other person, it was only supposed to be fake and we actually choreograph and rehearse it before every show. i totally smacked him 2 nights out of 3. and even more from rehearsals. xd . 'twas fun.
another funny one was during that song, suzie was playing Miss Jones and she had a humongous beehive hair (that is funny enough already). We were doing the dance break when matt caught his sleeve on her wig. it was hilarious. they looked like siamese twins trying to dance off stage in the middle of the dance break. it was the funniest thing ever.
one thing that happened to me was after the song Company Way they had to carry doug who was playing Frump across the stage towards the elevator that i'm standing beside of. I don't know what happened but they were carrying him so fast that i didn't get away fast enough and i basically got trampled and the girl behind me was squished on the elevator. xp i tell you it hurts just thinking about it.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 12:15 pm
Lol. I didnt think that Candi would do that either....
I a still can't belive Dan's Scream.. that was great
blaugh blaugh
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 8:40 pm
SaturnsRings Lol. I didnt think that Candi would do that either.... I a still can't belive Dan's Scream.. that was great blaugh blaugh He sprang that on us pretty suddenly.
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 8:48 pm
This wasn't funny so much as it was...near heart attack inducing?
I played Rosie in "Bye, Bye, Birdie". Albert (god bless him) was supposed to say a line which triggered Mrs. Peterson to say a line which triggered her and Conrad's exit. Well...Albert's line didn't exactly happen, and he instead went auto-pilot into the monolouge he has much later in that scene. This caused a bit of a problem, seeing as the other two needed to get offstage before I could say my line. I just screamed, "Conrad, would you get out of here?!" and Mrs. Peterson sneakily followed him off.
This led to a new problem: the reprise of a song I was supposed to sing made no sense whatsoever now. I had to change the lyrics on the spot to fit them to the scene now, which was a bit of a hard do seeing as we had pre-recorded music. However, it all worked out fine in the end because the audience (apparently) didn't even notice. That was a lucky break. rolleyes
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 5:35 pm
Well, this year we did Suessical. Gertrudes was suposed to have her tail so long shee couldn't fly. While she was attemoting to fly to hortan and save him from hunters, she was supposed to fail because of the heavy tail. The problem was her tail fell off. Kinda throws a wrench in the plans.
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 9:50 pm
he, funny thing make for fun times, thats for sure.....
my sophmore year we were doing A Midsummer's Night's Dream and we had like 12 fairies for the chourus parts and to provide reactions to hopefully explain the languge to the audience through reactions.....but anywho, we all had these really see through dresses that were made out of lining material so we all had bike shorts under the dresses so taht we didn't flash the audience. well we all were standing back stage at the edge of some platforms and started slowly pulling up the skirt of our dresses and being silly and seductive from one side of the stage to the other, that was entertaining.....It was a blast plus my character and puck became "best friends" and so durring the scene wehre oberon says "Should I kill her" or somthing to the likes we were all for the death of the fairy queen....it was funnest thing I've ever been on stage for! Oh yah, durring the play within a play scene the two peeps who played Thisbe and pyramus were at the Wall talking and there is a point where they were to kiss through the c***k in the wall but not really kiss, but the person who was playing wall got a little to into the character and was overly distracted and droped her hand causing the two guys to almost kiss, it had to of been less than a centimeter between their lips.
Then that spring we did Steel Magnolias and I was running lights and had set some trees up with some parcans to provied some "Sun light" and the stage pocket hadn't been vacumed out in over a year we figure some debris got into the plug and started a fire while we were running through the play....while everybody was freaking out about that the stage manager for got to turn off the pump for the sink that we made so that it was more realistic or somthing like that and so the tube sliped and flooded the stage right next to the fire.....it was funny in the end but a nightmare at the time.
Then this fall we had student directed one-acts and a friend of mine directed "Sorry Wrong Number..." which is a murder mystery radio play turned stage...so we were rehersing and the guy who played the murderer was saying the final line "sorry, Wrong Number" which is sposed to be scary and stuff but he sorta sang it one night, and that is where "Sorry Wrong Number- The musical" was born....we wouldn't let go of it for weeks...
This spring we had Our Town, which is a great show, but hard to do cause of the pantomimeing, before we had lights set there were all kinds of mishaps, Mr. Webb was mowing the lawn but ended up inside where the house was so the carpet was clean shaven.....counters kept shrinking and what not....another funny moment was durring the wedding scene when Emily's dress came unbuttoned in the back durring rehersal.....the funniest part was watching the dead peeps in the cemetary scene, my lights partner and I were dancing in the booth and one of the peeps had chosen us to look at and almost broke...it was fun.
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 11:40 pm
AlexofSyrr Well, this year we did Suessical. Gertrudes was suposed to have her tail so long shee couldn't fly. While she was attemoting to fly to hortan and save him from hunters, she was supposed to fail because of the heavy tail. The problem was her tail fell off. Kinda throws a wrench in the plans. Costumes are so unpredictable...
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:12 am
Our drama head makes every performance a comedy.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:01 am
this is kind of an incident. I'm not quite sure but it was hilarious! It was out last rehersal of 42nd Street. We always have this prank night. Well out Billy was getting ready to dance in We're In the Money. Nobody knew he was going to do this. Well when the girls came out...he came out in their costume. We were not wearing costumes that night. He gave us a break. Anyway...here is a picture. This kid is going to Berklee, he is a composer, a brilliant student, a man whore, and just seeing him in this made us laugh so hard. I turned it into a bump banner so ignore that! nobody knew about it! We didn't even see him change. 
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:41 pm
Oh, I have a few...
During my first production last year, the director was standing in for the lead while he was at piano lessons. They were trying to choreograph a simple punching brawl. Unfortunately for the director, one of the first punches the other actor swung hit him right in the nose, making it numb for the next couple of days. To add insult to injury, the lead showed up about a minute afterwards.
In my second production, a few actors were supposed to be repairing a bicycle on-stage while they went through their dialogue. This was rehearsed constantly, but during one of the performances, they just couldn't get the wheel back on. There was some ackward silence for about a minute, but then the actors improvised their way out of it, giving some of the biggest laughs of the show. There was also a part where I was holding up a jelly-bean, which the other actor was supposed to violently knock out of my hand. His aim was a little off, and knocked the jelly-bean straight into the audience.
And then, during a rehearsal for my most recent one, we were doing a segment from Midsummer Night's Dream. I was Lysander, and I was about to approach Helena. There was just one problem, though: My toga fell off when I stood up. Luckily I was wearing normal clothes underneath.
At another rehearsal, one of the actresses was practicing a monologue that they had. I, filled with energy, decided to stand right behind and mock her. I hadn't known her routine much, so I was surprised when she kicked back and nailed me right in the nuts! (I'm male, by the way) She didn't even know I was right behind her until I screamed in pain!
I might have more later, but those are ones that first come to mind.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:02 pm
GrouchoMarx Oh, I have a few... During my first production last year, the director was standing in for the lead while he was at piano lessons. They were trying to choreograph a simple punching brawl. Unfortunately for the director, one of the first punches the other actor swung hit him right in the nose, making it numb for the next couple of days. To add insult to injury, the lead showed up about a minute afterwards. In my second production, a few actors were supposed to be repairing a bicycle on-stage while they went through their dialogue. This was rehearsed constantly, but during one of the performances, they just couldn't get the wheel back on. There was some ackward silence for about a minute, but then the actors improvised their way out of it, giving some of the biggest laughs of the show. There was also a part where I was holding up a jelly-bean, which the other actor was supposed to violently knock out of my hand. His aim was a little off, and knocked the jelly-bean straight into the audience. And then, during a rehearsal for my most recent one, we were doing a segment from Midsummer Night's Dream. I was Lysander, and I was about to approach Helena. There was just one problem, though: My toga fell off when I stood up. Luckily I was wearing normal clothes underneath. At another rehearsal, one of the actresses was practicing a monologue that they had. I, filled with energy, decided to stand right behind and mock her. I hadn't known her routine much, so I was surprised when she kicked back and nailed me right in the nuts! (I'm male, by the way) She didn't even know I was right behind her until I screamed in pain! I might have more later, but those are ones that first come to mind. Those are great. I like your name, by the by.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:16 am
This wasn't really an accident, but I thought it was kinda funny anyways.
1) On one of the rehearsals for our school play Dracula, it was the first day that we had to do hair and makeup. I was a maid and so all I had to do was a simple bun and regular makeup. I finished mine early, so I went out of the girls dressing room, and there were the succybies (Dracula's vampire girls who live with him) and it really freaked me out because they were getting their hair done, and it was HUGE and I mean HUGE and wild. It looked like they had stuck their heads in a cotton candy machine. It was really funny. blaugh
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:09 am
So I was backstage for The Skin of Our Teeth. I wasn't in the cast, I wasn't a techie. I was just chilling back there because it was like the 3rd time I'd gone to see it. Night before closing. I walk in, the actors are doing their preshow ritual. So I was going to come back in a few minutes. I didn't want to upset the tender moment. But things went horribly awry.
Our Mr. Antrobus tells everyone, as in accordance with tradition, he tells everyone to take off their pants. If they're not wearing pants, hike up their skirts. They will remain this way for the preshow ritual. So of course nobody argues. The guys all have their pants around their ankles (our Henry/Cain had gone the extra mile and had liberated himself of his boxers as well, ew), the girls all have their skirts hiked up to their noses and at this point I was slinking towards the door. I was caught and absorbed into the circle. Yeah. That was um, fun. Standing there pantsless. We later found out that that tradition was something the seniors had just made up to see if we'd all go along with it. We did. Now it's going to be a tradition, pretty sure.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:20 am
sad_loved_girl So I was backstage for The Skin of Our Teeth. I wasn't in the cast, I wasn't a techie. I was just chilling back there because it was like the 3rd time I'd gone to see it. Night before closing. I walk in, the actors are doing their preshow ritual. So I was going to come back in a few minutes. I didn't want to upset the tender moment. But things went horribly awry. Our Mr. Antrobus tells everyone, as in accordance with tradition, he tells everyone to take off their pants. If they're not wearing pants, hike up their skirts. They will remain this way for the preshow ritual. So of course nobody argues. The guys all have their pants around their ankles (our Henry/Cain had gone the extra mile and had liberated himself of his boxers as well, ew), the girls all have their skirts hiked up to their noses and at this point I was slinking towards the door. I was caught and absorbed into the circle. Yeah. That was um, fun. Standing there pantsless. We later found out that that tradition was something the seniors had just made up to see if we'd all go along with it. We did. Now it's going to be a tradition, pretty sure. LMAO lol
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:03 pm
eternal-phantom 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. 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! when i read this i seriously started cracking up! thank you so much for posting that! anyway, i have a couple myself! the first time i was in once upon a mattress i played a wench with no lines. every time that there was a scene change the king would chase me across the stage trying to grab my but and all i had to do was giggle really loud. well there was a huge styrafoam pillar at the side of the stage and one night when i tried running off into the wings i hit the pillar. it snapped and the top half fell on me and i fell over. i didn't know what to do so i just kept giggling as the king ran off in a panic. they just left me there giggling under a pillar for like 3 scenes! in another production i was doing, fame, the girls dressing room was a mess and no one could find their stuff. the girl who played carmen was like "oh my god, i can't find my pants and i'm gonna miss my cue" so i let her borrow mine. she was supposed to give me them back at the end of her scene but i couldn't find her anywhere. i was freaking out but someone was like "raegan, you're on!" so i forgot about the pants and just ran onstage. halfway through my duet i realized that i was singing in my underwear, stopped singing, stared at them and just started singing again. it was awful!
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