Worst Stage Make-Up Moment??- Page 2

[Beanmatt]

Posted: 12/31/04 at 11:42am

I was in a production of the children's show Wiley and the Hairy Man back in high school. We had about 10 "swamp creatures" that act as sort of a greek chorus and instead of using real green/brown/blue make up for our faces, we went on the cheap and used that stuff you use to paint your face to show spirit for like ball games and the like. Well, the stuff we bought was OLD. Should no longer have been on the shelves. So the first night we all had it on it stained our faces. Then, as we are frantically scrubbing to get it off, the fire alarm in the school goes off and we have to go outside to the field...where the football team is practicing (God knows what they thought of us "drama people"). We were stained for about a week before it fully faded.