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 Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:30 am
Okay, this is a double topic.
First, has something ever happened on stage that wasn't planned but turned out to be absolutely hilarious?
Second, I just bought my tickets for Wicked and Rent on Broadway in January!! I'm pumped!!!!
Okay. Back to topic 1.
The thing that's happend on stage that wasn't planned for me was in my first show ever, M*A*S*H. Hawkeye was supposed to shoot some stuffed animals and used "Hot Lips" Houlihan as a catapult to toss them up. We had some army netting coming down from the catwalk and one of the animals got caught in the netting on the last night!! It was so bad yet so hilarious at the same time!!!! blaugh
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:53 am
I have a few things that have happened. Both to me and to people I was on stage with.
When I was in "Zombie Prom," my friend Jon and I had a duet together. In the middle of the song, he sneezed, and for the rest of the song, we couldn't stop laughing our asses off. Thank God this happened before we opened.
During "Ten Little Indians" I had to grab a gun from someone's pocket and shoot them. Well, the one night, he moved when I went to grab it and it slipped down into his pocket. And needless to say I had to go after it. That was the worst night of my life.
And finally, these three weren't me, but they are still funny:
I once working the lights to a revue show, and in the middle of "I Dreamed a Dream" someone in the audience started sneezing and threw off the singer, so she forgot the words to an entire verse of the song. She made up her own lyrics. Something like "I've forgotten the words to this song, Thanks to Mr. Sneeze over there in the corner. Hopefully soon I'll get them back, so that I can finish this song..."
One of the nights we were doing "Footloose" my buddy Baldino (Uncle Wes) was walking out of the Moore's house and tripped over the roller skates that Ren had set on the ground and he fell flat on his face. It was to great because we were standing right off in the wings and got to see it.
Another night our Wendy Jo got terribly ill, but she had to go on anyways since we did not have understudies. So, Katlin brought some tussin with her and was taking it in the dressing room before the show. By the time we got to the "Holding on for a Hero" song she was SSSOOOO DRUNK! I was standing next to her and she looked up and me and said 'Amber.... I don't know where I am right now... I don't know what I'm doing.' in a full voice. It was so funny, cus then she had to DANCE! I go back to the cast house and look at her bottle of Tusin, and it's totally empty. I wish we had taped that night.
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WickedElphie Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:11 am
Let's see...
These are mainly my mess-ups. During You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, I was have a 'moment' with Peppermint Patty, and I could see Olivia (who played Sally) offstage. Sure enough, when Patty asked me the question, I said, 'Well, Sally..." The audience laughed for a full three minutes.
And the day before the opening of YaGMCB (o.o that's wierd), I was supposed to walk on stage and start talking about how I had a valentine I wanted to give to Frieda. Of course, I walked right on stage and said I had a Frieda I wanted to give to Valentine. >_< I'm just glad it the only people around were the cast and crew.
And then in Godspell, Jesus and Judas had these small keychain thingys that turned into canes for 'All for the Best'. But Daniel, the guy who played Jesus, could never get the keychain to turn into the cane. Opening night, he got it. Saturday night, he got it. Sunday night? Not so much. He ended up shrugging his shoulders and throwing the keychain to the side, almost hitting one of the cast members. ^_^ That was pretty good.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:19 pm
Yikes. Those would be pretty bizarre things to happen during the show.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:02 pm
Once, we were putting on a play about putting on a play....so there was this once scene where the airhead actress comes late onstage and has a conversation with Jack, a member of the tech crew. (So she's there onstage facing the tech booth and going, "HEY, JACK, HOW ARE YOU, HONEY?")
Well, in that show, we had no pit band, so the tech crew had to play all the music off tapes and stuff, right? Except, every time we rehearsed a song, it took 10 seconds to start playing.
So then, dress rehersal, and everyone's video recording the show, right? And there the tech crew is, with the 10-second delay on the song, and the guy who's about to sing is like, "Little problem up there in the booth, eh, Jack, honey?"
It was the kind of thing where you had to be there. It was hilarious.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:19 pm
Well, right now I do improv show in the city. So...nothing is planned and s**t happens that leads us to go into some direction and it comes off really funny. But I guess that's cheating in answering this question.
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:12 pm
When I was in South Pacific I witnessed what might've been the greatest (or at least one of the funniest) recoveries in theater history. Captain Brackett and Harbison were supposed to enter, but they missed their cue (apparently they were being inspected). here's how it went:
Professor: Whoop, whoop! Iron Belly!
Billis: It's the captain!
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Oh he tripped over a rock!
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Oh he tripped over another rock!
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Oh he tripped over the commander!
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So let's talk about Bali Ha'i for awhile.
Ok so maybe it doesn't come across as all that funny, but at the time it was hilarius. I guess you just had to be there.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:17 am
Yikes!!!!!
That had to be both embarrassing and hilarious.
I thought of a couple more. Both of these happened during our fall musical, "Children of Eden," my senior year of high school.
Friday nights have never been good performances for me, and this was by far the worst one. In the second act, God sends the flood to wash away the earth. We had a major storm during the performance, so powerful it knocked out the power for a few seconds. This was towards the end of the musical, so it didn't do too much damage. But, somebody came up to me and asked me, "What did you do????" I tried my hardest not to let out a laugh.
Also that night was a mammal malfunction. We had a dove that "flew" from the catwalk on a fishing line. Friday night, it fell off of that fishing line. Luckily, it landed on stage and an actor picked it right up and said, "The poor guy's tired."
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:40 pm
O.k. so I was in this student-written musical about a class of students. There's about thirty of us onstage the entire time and one by one we all take turns going down and talking to the audience. You eventually go through an emotional journey with all of us and all that jazz but this one time, my friend was making his way towards the audience for his monologue when he accidentally kicked a lightstand. This huge light that's on top of a five foot pole starts falling on top of a group of actresses. He spins around (with spider man reflexes) and graps the pole just before the light comes crashing down. He puts it back up and walks up to the audience. He stares at them and says, "That...didn't...happen." They all burst out laughing and applaud. He performed his monologue an went back to his seat.
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