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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:01 pm
Arsenic and Old lace.
We had bottles of grape juice to replace the wine. and you know, after a month of the juice sitting there...it fermented. Lets just say Tech week was A LOT more fun than it should have been.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:20 pm
okay there were a couple in Into the Woods
like when Jack was milking the cow, one of the nipples broke off
Then on our final dress rehersal the Baker was gone so during the part where he is supposed to tell Cinderella about the giant, the line before he comes in is "tThis small man wishes to see you." so then Cinderella says "My, he is rather small, I can't even see him." and then she picks up the imaginary baker and puts him on her hand to talk to him. Even our very serious director was cracking up.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:07 pm
Snoopy: The Musical
The tech crew was done with everything they had to do for the day, so we were all sitting in the audience watching everyone practise blocking with shortened lines. For any of you who're familiar with the show, you'll know how repetitive Linus's part during the Clouds song is, so this is what happened:
Linus: *Sing-song* I see everyone waving at me!
Director: Hold on! J.T., what're you gonna do? Say that line everytime it's your turn? You could summarize it in a different way.
Linus: Or I could say that once, and then everyone else can ignore me while they do their part, since I just basically sit here and point and wave.
Director: .....Fine.
((For those of you not familiar with the show, during that song, Linus has a few parts that are very repetitive. The cast is watching the clouds drift by and they're singing about what they see. I don't remember all of it, because this play was last fall, but it was something like:
"I see mount rushmore, thomas and george, waving at me...what do you see?"
"I see Galieth, blahblahblahblahblah, waving at me- what do you see?"
And he has another verse or two like that. So...repetitive.))
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:03 am
The best one was during a rehearsel of Pippin.
It was the beginning of the second act. The Lead Player takes a crown, puts it on Pippin's head, and says "All Hail King Pippin" and we all cheer for him.
Well...it was almost opening night...I think it might have been the Monday before or something. All I know is that we were all in costume and stuff.
Sooo...our LP puts the crown on Pippin's head and said "All Hail King Pipper" and everyone tries sssooo hard not to laugh. We're trying to bite our tongues, and we would have made it if our bands director hadn't said "Come on guys, don't laugh." We all cracked up so hard. Later, someone went into the drama room (our green room during shows) and wrote "Hail King Pipper" on the board. It was simply classic.
Also, we just did Music Man and I was a Pick-A-Little lady. Well, once again, it was just before we opened. All of the PAL's were backstage, waiting for "Sadder-But-Wiser" to get over when our Mrs. Shinn, Lindsey, decides that we should make our director feel better since she was really stressed. So, we go on stage, and instead of signing PAL, we RAPPED IT! It was hilarious!! Malo fell to the floor laughing at us. The only people who witnessed it were the quartet and, of course, Harold. Everyone else was mad they missed it.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:43 pm
Rue_Root Arsenic and Old lace. We had bottles of grape juice to replace the wine. and you know, after a month of the juice sitting there...it fermented. Lets just say Tech week was A LOT more fun than it should have been. Oh man! That sounds like so much fun. By the way, how is Arsenic and Old Lace? I was looking at it in the library the other day and it sounded really cool? (And about how many characters again? I forgot.)
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:49 pm
Oh man. So many I can't even begin to remember. So lets go with the two gender switches.
Our Town:
Stage Manager: "George, do you take this man Emily to be your... oh damn."
(Instead of "woman", duh. The "oh damn" was added when he realized the other actors were cracking up.)
Noises Off:
Lloyd: (to Poppy) "You're not somebody's boyfriend, are you?!"
(Instead of "girfriend". This happened during a performance... twice.
Sooo many more from this show...
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:34 pm
So yesterday before a show we were doing a quick run through. Basically it was gi through your lines and blocking as fast as you can. We were all just being stupid and stuff and just... it was so funny XD
Everyone was running on and off stage and we had one girl who is supposed to limp with a cane because she's dying of radium poisoning, so she was basically like... I have no idea. She did end up waltzing off stage with someone though.
There's this one really sad, dramatic break up scene in the show where a the end the boy is like where is this going anymore? And the line is "Grace, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?" Except the guy who says that line says it with a hick accent sometimes. So we're doing out fast run through and everyone is just spitting their lines out and he gets to that line and he just slows down and goes "GRACE, WHAT ARE WE DOIN' HERE?" in the biggest hick accent you've ever heard.
We all died, it was so funny.
Another time this guy wasnt able to cross the stage because we were going to fast so he didnt quite make it up the stairs, and he was supposed to be giving a medical report to this guy so he was like "MY FINDINGS MR. ROEDER! *pantomimes throwing the report*"
The other really funny one was the guy was doing his closing monolouge and he gets really pause-y so he starts and he was like "I.... think....back...." and we were like AHHH MAKE IT END!
We were making all sorts of jokes but I think it was a "you had to be there" thing.
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:53 pm
Ha, I have some funny stuff.
Chicago-
I was playing Roxie and one of my costumes was a tad bit...revealing. My friend Joe called me "Foxy Roxie" For a while. Well, my other friend had a line and was s'posed to yell out "Roxie!" But instead he yelled "Foxy Roxie!" And we all started laughing.
Also, on the line "Some men just can't hold their arsenic" my friend messed it up and said "Some men just can't hold their arnsenenenene...arse...Ar-oh, screw it, Mr. E, how do you pronounce arsenic!?"
Annie-
During the scene where I had to get into that stupid mail/laundry thing the guy wheeling it let go while I was inside and our stage is on a slant. The thingy rolled off the stage and I ended up with my director's underwear on my head on the ground.
Children of Eden-
During the Generations song, one of the people in ensemble tripped over her jeans and fell, tripping the person with this stupid bird on a stick, and then smashing some of the background scenery.
Little Shop of Horrors-
When I played Audrey, I was fooling around with the boy who played Audrey 2. He was inside the costume and was messing around. I turned around to talk with the boy playing Seymour and all the sudden I heard "Feed me, Seymour!" and Audrey 2's head came down over me. I screamed because he startled me and the principal came in. I started to tell her that I was being eaten alive by a plant and she began beating my poor friend over the head. He let go and the principal began making sure I wasn't half eaten.
King and I-
I played Tuptim and my friend was playing Chululonghorn. He had a bowing scene and instead of simply bowing near the ground, he smacked his head on the stage and dented the stage. I told him that he made a huge impact on the school. Then, my friends missed their cue and I had to bring myself in.
Wizard of Oz-
I played the Witch of the East at one point and I accidentally said "I'm melting, I'm meltinh" while under the house, but my friend, who played Dorothy, covered me up by looking at her Toto, who was a real dog, my director's dog, and said "And you said that toxic waste wasn't a good thing to keep around." On the stage in front of hundreds of people.
Oklahoma!-
When I was first in it, we had a kissing scene. Well, when Will came in to kiss me, I hesitated, then let him kiss me because he was cute, but after kissing me, he tried to pull me up, accidentally grabbed the back of my dress, tore the dress, and dropped me.
The second time I was in Oklahoma! I played a cowboy, seeing as that they didn't have enough boys in the cast. We only had 4 guys, yet half the parts were guys. I had to wheel out the surrey in the end and I hit the side of the stage and snapped the scenery in half. I took my bow and just continued to push the Surrey on through the doors.
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:35 pm
Ok, so last year for my UIL One Act Play, we did this brand new play called The Magic of Pants. It's based on an old style of Italian acting called Commedia dell Arte, which is very similar to modern day sitcoms.
So anyway, I was playing this old man named Pantalone who liked to complain about illnesses and hit people with his cane. And there was this one scene where I had to wing my cane and someone had to duck, and I wasn't swinging high enough, and the other person wasn't ducking low enough, so the director gets on stage to help. She ducks down the proper height and asks me to swing my cane. Sure enough, my swing was too low, and I hit my poor director/teacher right in the lip!
I apologized quickly, and even funnier than the attack was her response: Hey don't worry about it. I'm tough, I have kids and Stephen!"
(Stephen was the class hoodlum/clown, but he meant well, just like a litttle kid.)
Maybe you had to be there, but it was hilarious!
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:00 pm
Auditioning for Les Mis - Thernadier.
"ready to relieve them of a soul or two."
rather than
"sou"
the director and pianist were cracking up. Good thing it was a warm-up sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:44 pm
I have more!
High School Musical-
During the Stick to the Status Quo song, I stood on the table to sing, tripped and fell off during the 1st show. My friend was like "That's what happens when you don't stick to the status quo!" and fit it into the song so it sounded like it was supposed to be there.
Bye Bye Birdie-
My friend was playing Danny and during the last scene, they had to kiss and his jacket got caught on her's. They were stuck like that for a while until I got the unstuck. It was quite embarrassing for them.
Skits-
During La Vie Boheme, I had to kiss my friend Katy (Yes, she spells her name like that), who was playing Joanna, and so my friend Joe, who was playing Mark, said "Oh, ********, that's sexy" out loud and I pointed to him, motioning for him to come over, and Katy was like "Get over here, we'll have a threesome" and everybody was laughing. If we weren't all friends, I probobly would have gotten annoyed.
While You Can't Stop The Beat, Katy, my friend from before, couldn't get out of the huge hairspray can and she ended up knocking it over with her still in it. She rolled off the stage.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:09 pm
-Trial of God
This actually just happened about three weeks ago. We were rehearsing for one acts and i was playing the lead. there was a section of pages where i actually didn't have to speak and i had to go to the restroom really fast. So i run off stage and went...then i run back on stage and i get ready to say my next line when my stage manager starts laughing and i look at her and i look down and...zip up my zipper. (i swear it was planned.)
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:58 pm
We're doing a play the no one has EVER heard of - one of the director's friends at his old school wrote it - and we keep dubbing in "owned in the face" to lines. It usually happens when someone forgets their lines.
Real line: ... then I went to my room and got shot.
OITF: ... then I went to my room and got owned in the face.
((this guy does a HYSTARICAL falsetto voice through the entire show for his character. At the time, his head was also in a turban of gauze.))
Real Line: Too late, Hugh. You have failed this task.
OITF: Too late, Hugh. You were just owned in the face.
Real Line: I refuse to be in the same room as someone who tried to kill me!
OITF: I refuse to be in the same room as someone who just tried to own me in the face!
((same falsetto guy))
Real Line: I was just bound and gagged and dragged down the stairs! Now, that was un-necissary.
OITF: I was just owned in the face by a ski mask! Now that was un-necissary.
Real Line: It was foolproof! Except that Lenny locked the woodshed door.
OITF: It was foolproof! Except that I was owned in the face by Lenny locking the woodshed door.
Real Line: Nobody saw Bernard get murdered.
OITF: Nobody saw Bernard get owned in the face.
Real Line: Looser.
OITF: OWNED!
... tons more like that.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:41 pm
I had a line in The Trial of Goldilocks where I say that "Your wise words have taught us a lot..."
and In preformace I deffinately said "Your wise turds have taught us a lot..."
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:29 pm
Almost hiting people with drops... Sometimes the things that happen are scary. seems everyone should be paying attention. redface
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