Audience bloopers
Audience bloopers
#0Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 3:47pmI've read so many posts about stage bloopers, but does anyone have any weird audience bloopers that caused mishap on the stage besides taking flash photography? I was once at Rent when the first Austin Powers movie was out. The group of us were in the first row. We kept making Doctor Evil hand/face motions at eachother during the performance. Wilsom Jermaine Heredia caught us doing this and he forgot the words to the end of La Vie Boheme (the big speech part). Once he regained thought, he looked right down at our row, made the Doctor Evil pinky to chin face back to us and winked...it was hilarious. Updated On: 10/11/04 at 03:47 PM
#1re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 4:05pm
When I did The Secret Garden in a dinner theatre in Florida many years ago - we had just come to the end of the opening scene with the handkercheif game (symbolizing the plage attacking India)...and one very ancient old woman in the front row, with a distinctly Brooklyn-esque accent, very loudly said: "OH, I GET IT, THE RED ONE MEANS YOU'RE DEAD!!!" We nearly busted a gut trying not to lough out loud in the dark during the scene change.
Another time a friend of mine was doing King and I at the Royal Palm Dinner theatre in Boca and someone at a table near the lip of the stage (which is basically "in the round", though actually rectangular) told her (my friend in the ensemble) to move over so she could see the show..(my friend was sitting on the lip of the stage looking up at the main action, I believe playing one of the wives) so my friend turned to the woman at the table and said "honey, I AM the show"..and continued to do her thing.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
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#3re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 4:15pmI was in Macbeth ::waits for gasp:: over the summer. In one scene, a bunch of us had to go through the audience wearing spirit costumes and touch people to scare them. On the second night, this guy (I think the brother of one of the cast members) grabbed my hood, pulled on it, and said "heyyyyy stupid!" in this really obnoxious voice.
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#4re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 5:02pm
Anyone who knows me knows that I have possibly the loudest laugh ever and it has broken up two performers during shows.
About 4 years ago I went to stratford to see Three Musketeers and during the final scene where the cardinal gets his comeupance(sp?) I found it funny and was the only one who found it funny. The actor playing the cardinal lost his place for a second and then delievered the rest of his monologue to the balcony, where I was sitting.
When I went to see Rocky Horror on broadway, Dick Cavette made some joke that ended with "Dick Dick Dick. What's so funny about my name?" well that got me to and although I was the only person to laugh at first, my laughter caused a chain reaction through the audience untill it got to the point where Cavette had to pause, looked in my direction and said. "whenever you're done...." That was funny and led to several of the Phantoms "flirting" with me the rest of the show.
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#5re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 5:15pm
these are great!
Another time I was sitting in the first row balcony at a Saturday Night Live dress rehearsal. Well I wound up accidently kicking Lady Miss Kier from the band Dee Lite in the head. She was very cool about it though.
And then there was the time I was in Sweeney Todd at a local community theatre. During More Hot Pies, someone women yelled out in the audience "Oh no he didn't say he was gonna kill them! He one bad m..... f....." That made us loose it onstage.
Updated On: 10/11/04 at 05:15 PM
notsovirginmary
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#6re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 5:20pm
"A wonky eye, you've got my friend."
Updated On: 9/19/21 at 05:20 PM
#7re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 5:21pmHA thats a great 1! Once, my friend was in the play Macbeth and someone stupid in the audience Yells MACBETH! 20 mins before the show starts. A friend of my friend, who was also in the play and who was playing lady Macbeth accidentally turns a corner backstage and puts her hand through a peice of glass. She had to do the preformance with a bleeding arm!
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eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#8re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 6:15pm
i have quite a few....
i saw the Thoroughly Modern Mille tour here in LA... well in the top of Act II or something when Miss Dorothy makes a comment about boyfriends to Millie, some girl in the balcony yelled really loudly something like "oh no she didn't" everybody in the balcony was laughing...
when I saw Hairspray at the Pantages theater, this little kid who was like 6 years old was sitting behind me with his parents... the whole musical when Bruce Vilanch would come in...he kept saying "that's not a woman... is it?" to his parents really loud... people in the orchestra were laughing and you could tell the parents didn't know how to respond to that question...
i knew someone who went to see Miss Saigon and sat next to some rude teenagers... so when at the beginning when they sing "see my bikini it's just the right size..." the guys make lewd comments... and during the blackout before "Why God Why?" the kids make bird noises... and I also saw a show when Kim kills Thuy, this woman SCREAMED so loud that the whole audience laughed at her...
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#9re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 7:15pmWhen I saw the Producers tour, there is a scene where Leo asks himself, "Should I go to Rio or stay here?" or something like that. Well, this old guy in front of me yells "Rio!" I don't like it when audience members just yell out when they feel like it.
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#10re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 7:23pm
Notso...
They're still doing A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN? GREAT!!!
I thought that show DIED in 1951! :)
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#11re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/11/04 at 7:25pm
When our High School did THE MUSIC MAN, the conductor came out and the audience began clapping appropriately.
He threw up his hands to quiet us and said "No! Is There a Doctor In The House?"
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#12re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/12/04 at 2:16am
millie...don't like the audience participation?....get off the stage-on bway,the ORCHESTRA used to yell
'rio!'
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#13re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/12/04 at 6:39amUsed to?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#14re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:23amyeah,used too ....during their strike negotiations...then on the day it it was settled,it stopped Updated On: 10/12/04 at 10:23 AM
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Understudy Joined: 10/4/04
#15re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:35amTwo come to mind at Phantom someone forgot to shut there cellphone off and it kept ringing Michael got pissed and jump off the stage and grab the phone and said Yes it is for you now shut it off. He was in the front row and the fog machine went nuts and everyone was coughing in the front row.
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#16re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/12/04 at 10:43amWhen I did 'Guys and Dolls' my senior year of high school, during the mission raid some of the gamblers ran off stage and around the audience and such.. During one of the performances we where doing for the lower schools in town on of the girls took one of our gambelers shoes ... while it was on his foot ... it was so strange.. He went back on stage missing a shoe.. one of the crew members went out and pulled it out of the girls hands... That is definitely something I wont soon forget.. LOLOL
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#17re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/12/04 at 2:59pm
When I was little I saw A Chorus Line in NYC. I was in the front row of the balcony or mezz... Not sure which one. Anyway-- When Val came out in the beginning. I said to my dad in a not so quiet whisper. Oh My God Daddy, She's Naked!
and then when she did the famous Dance Ten Looks Three. I looked at him and again said pretty loudly... You told me this was a G Rated Musical.
#18re: Audience bloopers
Posted: 10/12/04 at 3:21pm
I was doing GODSPELL in a big summer outdoor venue. Our set was scaffolding -- a lot of it, all painted the color of the setting sun.
You know that part of the crucifixion, after the rock-n-roll-head-banger Golgotha music? And everything is quiet and still for a moment before "Long Live God" starts and you take the show on home? Well...
During the crucifixion, we lowly non-Jesus folk were blocked to writhe, contort, climb the scaffolding, etc. Bursts of strobe light, all very violent. We also had a cue to come down off the scaffolding and collapse in a heap, ostensibly to catch our breath before the joyousness of "Long Live God".
Well, we do it. We contort, we writhe, we sweat, and we all collapse in a heap. The music dies out, and there are 3 or 4 poignant beats of total silence....
All except for this one woman whispering to her companion "Where are they now?" Her companion says -- in full voice -- "There up there by them orange bars!"
We finished the show with tears in our eyes, but they weren't from emotion. They were from uncontrollable laughter. Have any idea how hard it is to sing like that? :)
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