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Our school was putting on a plethora of one-acts one of them being "The Philidelphia" and during one of the performance night's one(out of three) of our cast members had been unable to participate (skipping class) and so we managed to get another person to memorize all the lines and perform within 3 hours. During the middle of the production she only managed to miss one line in which she was supposed to say "And we've got pickled pigs feet" (for the other cast member 'not me so who cares' lol j/k) instead she said "And spaghetti and wormballs" and the other cast member was suppose to mention it again and he kept with the wormballs thing, it was hilarious!

At the theatre my dad manages they were doing a production of Hello Dolly and the actor playing Dolly forgot o turn off her mike and her swearing was put out thru all of the speakers, I never found out what she was angry about rolleyes

Where to start:

1...During Les Mis my friend royce was in the chain gang. He had two different wigs on so it would look like he had a mullet, but the top wig wasn't pinned down enough. So, he went on stage (he had the first solo of the show) and he sang it perfectly but when the guard pushed him down, his top wig flew off and hit someone in the front row!

2...also during Les Mis, when Gavrouche (sp) was dying at the barricade the guy who was supposed to fire the gunshots didn't do it on time. But amazingly the kid (who was in 5th grade) was smart enough to keep going and die...even if no one shot him.lol.

3...finally, during Les Mis, when Valjean finds Javert at the barricade and has him alone the lines
Javert= "how right you should kill with a knife"
were supposed to be sung once Valjean pulls out a knife (to actully set Javert free) but Will (the actor playing Valjean) forgot to pull out the knife. So Javert said "how right you should kill with a knife" and THEN will pulled it out. lol

*Sigh* When I was Props Lead during a school play, there was a scene involving two large sacks of flour. It was closing night of the 4 day performance and the flour bags had gotten pretty torn up. Alas...I accidentally forgot to fix them before they were being used on stage.

What happens in the play is that the two bags of flour are supposed to be two little babies. During it, they toss the bags of flour onto the flour and someone says "Don't do that! They're not sacks of flour!" and someone responds "But they are sacks of flour!"... So they threw them exactly how they were supposed to and WHOOOOM! There was flour over the entire stage. ninja

Hehe, oh stage mishaps.
Let's see what I remember:
In "Joseph" I swear "Go, Go, Joseph" was cursed. On the night my aunt, godmother, and grandmother were there, the zipper of my babydoll dress broke onstage, and I was dancing front stage, so I had to hold it shut with one hand until I could get near an exit. Thankfully I'd worn a bra that night, even though the dress was really tight, there!

Then, on another night, a piece of tinsel fell off of someone else's pants, and I stepped on it just-right so that I lost all traction and my new dress (tight around my thighs) pulled my other leg out and down I went. Thankfully, I was still wearing my Potiphar shorts underneath at that point...
I found out two shows later that onstage, you could see the shorts through the dress, so they had to go.

In Les Mis, I had my peasant skirt for most scenes, except for Gavroche's song in the village, where I was one of his fellow street urchins. We had to safety pin the back of our skirt in front, and the front in back to make trousers. More than once, no matter how careful I was, that friggen' pin would come undone and stab me in the back for most of the scene! OWIES! gonk

Then on the closing night of Cinderella, in my one feature song (a duet, I played the queen) our musical cue was literally 10 seconds late! (Ppl I asked after said they didn't notice. Ad-libbing extra prep for a song cue is Not. Fun.)

Those are just my own oops. Worse has happened to others.
Sorry this entry was so long.

Yes. i was recently in Fiddler on the roof. We have this thing, kinda like a backdrop roller. Its like a loooong pipe that is long enough to go across the stage and it comes down and it usually can have a fense on it or something like that. So it doesnt come down all the way, its probably chin hight to me and im 5'5. Well, anyways. The night before opening performance, somebody had moved a prop that one of our main cast members and my good friend needed. While she was looking for the prop, she tripped on her dress and fell and cut her head on the very end of the pipe. She is usually very tollerant of pain, but she couldnt handle this. She was bleeding so bad, she was holding a pillow to it and was too week to stand or anything. She had to be taken to the ER and she got 7 stitches and still returned that night....just watching though. And she was there and ready to perform the next day. It just got every one very shaken up. we were all so glad she was ok

I was dual crewing during a one-act festival since my "crew chair" <-(only given that title cuz she's older, but i'm more skilled) was in one of the one acts. When it was time for me to transition from props and running to the sound booth, in the wings i didn't have my flashlight (had to leave it behind) and i ended up tripping up on the support of a door and knocked my lip on the other support, so i had to run to the hallway and around the theater up the stairs to my sound booth with a bloody and swollen lip.