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Well, this didn't happen during rehearsal but during the second show of our musical this year one of the leads messed up. We did Once Upon a Mattress and if you know the show, there is a song where the prince is showing his love of princess winnnifred who asked him to call her "fred" so he has lots of verses that all end in spelling her name yada yada yada. He was going through it and said the wrong verse so he was saying the line he thought was right and when he realized he was wrong he just said "oh G-d!" no one noticed excet for us, it was quite funny.



Now, if you want a story from a rehearsal, our first tech rehearsal for our play this year was on Halloween so we were sad that we wouldn't get out to do stuff. We decided to plastic wrap the cars of the people who drove to school. their reactions were pricless.

26. Sweet or sour?

Sweet.

During 10 Little Indians, McKenzie was one of like 3 people who just refused to learn his lines. He figured it didn't matter, because his basic character description (or at least the one I had given him) was "a senile old crazy-a**".

So during rehearsals, whenever he came across a line he didn't know, he just started reciting lines from "My Humps" in such a distorted fashion that it just sounded like old man jibber, and at the end would shout "PREPOSTEROUS!"

Somebody also waltzed with the bearskin rug. I won't say who.... ninja

hmm Probrably the most memorable for me would have to be during the dress resersal of A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, when we were in the beginning of the play after the opening song Comedy Tonight, and it was right in the middle of the main character's lines and a piece of the stage fell down. It was a detachable part of the stage, but still, the band was in the pit, and thankfully no one got hurt, and the actor that was on stage put an ad lib due to the noise it was " With a city built like this, our roman empire will never fall!"

I'm interested in seeing how that will go, but hey, I get BLACKLIGHTS.

Anyway. When I was in Les Mis, we were doing a run through of the scene Master of the House right before the doors opened. So naturally, everyone was already in their costumes for the openeing, make up everything.

Ironically, our bishop and one of our nuns was in Master of the House. So basically we've got too people, dresses as a holy man and woman staggering around drunk XD It was so funny to watch.

Also, during rehersal one day my friend was on stage sinigng Javert's Suicide so the guy playing Marius stood in the wings and when Javert looked over Marius made a mation like he was hanging himself. He kept doing things like that, slitting his writsts, etcm until our director came over and yelled at us XD

The guy playing the boss in At The End of the Day said "Right on my girl" instead of "Right, my girl" up until a week before we opened. It was like whooo sluts!

One more... I swear XD

My friend (same guy who played Javert, actually) was singing his solo in Lucky Stiff. There's two different verses the first is

"Don't hold the meatloaf! Don't toss the salad!"

The second is

"I won't be how to blow out the candle, open the presents."

During rehersal he accidentally skipped forward to the second verse, but relaized his mistake halfway through so it ende dup coming out

"I won't be home to blow the meatloaf!"

We all nearly died... it was pretty great.

I've got a few good ones.

We were doing the show "Vanities." It was a first day that we got to use our stage (we did it on racked thrust stage that took awhile to build) and it happened to also be the first day we started to get some of the costume pieces. However, the real wigs show wigs had not come yet, so we had the actresses using wigs we had in the closet.
In scene two, our Kathy wore a sweater and a pair of shorts, but the costume was in early stages at the time. The shorts were TOO short and the collar of the sweater was stretched out so that it hung off one shoulder. She looked like she was a flash dance movie extra reject. And on top of that, the wig was so ratty and her real hair was sticking out the back of it. She looked like she had a bright red mullet. We all couldn't stop laughing! The AD was sitting behind me and every time Kathy spoke she leaned forward and started singing "She's a maniac! Maniac!" into my ear. The actors were laughing so hard they kept getting lost. The one even started to cry towards the end of it. We still laugh about that rehearsal today.

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The other good one was we were doing Midsummer Night's Dream.
It was the last dress rehearsal. The director had the actors running through the isles during the show and it came time for the fight between the girls. At one point, while they are still on the stage, Hermia lunges for Helena and Helena runs out down the center isle, the boys hold Hermia back through Helena's next few lines, then Hermia tries to lunge again, and the boys hold her back once more. However this time... when she lunged, the boys lost a hold of her, and Hermia went flying down the isle at Helena, who got scared outta her mind, turned tail, and ran for her life! The look on Hermia's face when she realized the guys weren't holding her back was great! So the guys ran after them and all four are running randomly through the house. They were laughing hysterically, we were laughing hysterically, it was priceless.

alrighty, here's one. During rehearsal for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....I was playing the part of Lemual Dobbins, the school master.

The opening song of the show has a bunch of stuff and people singing different things. There's one part that Aunt Polly, myself and the Reverend sing "I can't do a thing about that boy"

Well, I sang Aunt Polly's part...it goes like this. "Heaven knows I'm just one woman. I go to work and I say my prayers..."

It was funny when it happened. The whole cast broke down laughing.