show bloopers

Also I was wondering, I saw Legally Blonde recently and was wondering if anyone has seen mistakes in the "whipped into shape" scene?

I was there one night when one of the ensemble got her rope caught around her shoe during "Whipped into Shape," and then when she yanked it to get it off of her shoe she smacked herself in the face with it- I seriously went "ow" from the audience, watching that.

Apparently "Whipped into Shape" mishaps are not uncommon...I am still waiting for the night one of those ropes goes flying into the pit. Or the audience.

"Also I was wondering, I saw Legally Blonde recently and was wondering if anyone has seen mistakes in the "whipped into shape" scene?"

I'll tell you in a minute. But last week I saw Wicked. It happened at the end of the song Popular, and Glinda's bed was stuck on stage and the next scene was moving in, the school room scene. The bed stayed on for half the scene when two stage crew men came out and just rolled it off. Everyone cheered for them.

About LB, on a forum for the show, a girl attended the show and during that number, Nikki (Brooke) yanked her rope to hard causing it to snap and all the rope beads went all over the stage.

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Updated On: 7/9/07 at 05:37 PM

Everytime I've seen RENT since Tim start he has messed up those chords. I just think he doesnt know how to play it. As sad as I think it is for Adam to come back after 10 years I'll be glad Tim is gone.

Seeing the very first preview of the Drowsy Chaperone in London and watching the curtain come down on top of the plane...

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That is one big prop in Drowsy, I can see that happen. It must have been a pain to get it all straightened out. I read the bed gets stuck sometimes and the trap door at the Marquis has gotten stuck also.

In Little Shop of Horrors' tour stop in Palm Springs, after "Somewhere That's Green", the Skid Row drop stuck about halfway as it came up for "Closed for Renovation." It stayed there for a long time -- so much that Seymour actually looked up at it for a second and shrugged. After about ten minutes watching flashlights pass back and forth above the curtains, it finally came up about halfway through "Dentist!", causing the entire audience to applaud.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=baeGaolxY-o

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That Carol Blooper was priceless. I remember not being able to dance with my date because I lost so much weight, I was afraid I'd lose the skirt I was wearing.

Loved that guy, falling on the floor laughing, that was just a great reaction. Carol seemed a little uneasy, not her usual ease but luckily that guy was there to lighten the moment. You always are suppose to pretend it was suppose to happen. The older Actors though seemed like they were hurtin' in trying to do any of the dance numbers though.

I LOVE the 'Putting It Together' blooper. Barrowman's reaction is even better than Carol's skirt falling down. He's SUCH a queen.

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yeah, roseaddams, when "little shop" stopped in nashville a few years ago, that same skid row drop didnt come down fully after one scene and while the girls were doing a scene in the front, we were watching the crew change the store set up (renovation) and it was so distracting. weird how that's almost the same thing as what you saw!
this isnt really a blooper, but its SO COOl and funny and about the same night of the same production of little shop. that night at the start of the show, they announced over the loudspeaker that an understudy (lets call her amy smith) would go on for one of the girls, (lets say chiffon) and then at intermission right before the second act started they announced "for the second act tonight, amy smith will play the roles of BOTH Chiffon and Crystal.) literally another one of the girls had decided she couldnt go on for the second act she was so sick. so the understudy played BOTH roles opposite the one remaining girl, singing both of their parts (it would go "Look out!" from the one girl left and then "Look out, look out" from the understudy!!) and all the choreography was lopsided as there were only two of them. they were off center when they rose up behind mushnik's shop to sing "meek shall inherit." can you imagine being an understudy and playing two roles at once?? i wonder what she did for the three-part harmony songs! she did SUCH a valiant job though, i should go look up who it was. PROPS TO HER!

another blooper i've seen was in the national tour of "Annie" last year, an actress playing a nanny with a stroller was supposed to walk up in front of the "in one" drop of the warbucks mansion and it would rise and she would enter the house, but the drop didnt rise for a full 30 seconds, and she stood there in front of the house with the orchestra plugging along, until she was let in. hilarious

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Apparently "Whipped into Shape" mishaps are not uncommon...I am still waiting for the night one of those ropes goes flying into the pit. Or the audience.

And it finally happened tonight- at the end of "Whipped into Shape" one of the jump ropes came flying downstage, missed the conductor, and landed about third row orch. And then Laura Bell asked for it back from the stage at the end of the show- that was hilarious.

During Wicked in Chicago, a prerecorded wizard's voice came in over One Short Day. Didn't affect anything, but the audience was kinda, "what the hell was that?". When I saw Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway, Angela Christian's wig came partially off when she took off her hat. She and Millie (matinee, so no Sutton) could barely keep it together.