EMERGENCIES ON STAGE

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 4:24pm

On Friday evening. I was performing with my theater group when the the worst thing happened to me. I was the first person on stage to open the act. That never really bothered me before. I was the only person on stage and suddenly had a low blood sugar episode. This can happen to a diabetic and is nothing new to me. However, it has never happened on stage before. I went right on speaking my lines even though I was dizzy, confused, and sweating profusely. Somehow, I managed to pull it off and no one noticed. After, I just went back stage and whispered ORANGE JUICE AND SUGAR PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!. Five minutes later, I was fine and went on to do three more skits that evening. Anything ever happen like this to anyone else?

[Mekroth]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 4:27pm

This should probably be on the student board.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 4:29pm

Whats with these comments that people are making that things are supposed to be on the student board?
As I know older people can be students, I'm sure Yenta is pleased that you think she is a student.

Glad you're ok Yenta.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 4:37pm

Hey..........Iam 51.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 4:39pm

We had an almost emergency in a show I was stage managing when the lead actress got food poisoning - we spent the entire show attentive to hear with buckets ready at each exit in case she had to run out and ready to go into neutral lights and the orchestra ready to vamp. Thankfully she made it through superbly!

[DBillyP]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 4:50pm

I sliced my hand open on a cocktail glass that shattered as I tried to wipe lipstick off of it in the second act of "Come Blow Your Horn." I didn't leave the stage for the rest of the act (20 minutes), so I kept the handkerchief pressed in between the thumb and index finger of my left hand where I had been cut. It got tricky when I then had to use said handkerchief to wipe the lipstick off my cheek. Fortunately, it had not yet started to bleed profusely.

At intermission, we rinsed the remaining pieces of glass out of the wound, and I did Act Three. I heard a man in the front row say, "What's wrong with his hand?"

After the show I went to the emergency room for stitches!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 4:59pm

In a dance show, one of my friends tore her meniscus. It was the dress rehearsal too, so she couldn't perform in either of the real shows. I felt really bad for her.

And just as a funny thing, not a huge emergency, but it was probably embarrassing to this girl. In one of my sister's dance team shows, one of her friends lost her bra on stage while they were dancing. No joke. It was one of those backless/strapless ones that you tape on, and the tape didn't hold after awhile. I mean, she kept dancing, and threw the bra off stage, but what a way to leave an impact on the show. Oh yeah, and it is also on the video, so she'll always have that to remember.

[D2]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 5:03pm

During a matinee performance of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS I hit my head while lunging into the plant near the end of the show. I blacked out and had to be pulled out by the stage crew. I managed to make it through the final number and then went to the emergency room. Just a big bump, no concussion thank God. Got back just in time for the evening performance, much to my understudy's disappointment.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 5:03pm

We were doing Bat Boy and we used a real torch (It wasn't exactly a torch but the name escapes me at the moment.) It's metal and glass and quite heavy. It gets thrown off stage and someone in the wings catches it. Well, she wasn't quite ready. It was thrown and sliced her forehead. Granted, nothing phases her so she was laughing about it but she was told to sit down and keep ice on it.
In reality, she did need stitches but refused them.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 5:51pm

Lately I've been getting fainting spells. Today I was singing in Chorus and I passed out in the middle of a song. I regained consiousness a few seconds later and was fine, but tonight is our concert and I'm quite worried I'm going to faint again in the middle of the performance.

[Miss Elphaba]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:10pm

Last year, i had an asthma attack while singing 'see i'm smiling ' at a cabaret performance. i could feel it coming as i started, within a few seconds, i was coughing during every single rest, just trying to make it through. The boy who i was singing too looked utterly terrified, bless him. But one of my friends had found my inhaler and was armed with it for the second i came off stage.

It's something i pray never to go through again

[elphabelle07]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:23pm

I got sick twice before doing a matinee performance of The Secret Garden and I played Lily. Thaaaaat was no fun. We had to do some last minute choreography changes and we had to take off my wig cap so I wouldn't be as dizzy. But I didn;t get any vomit on my costume which was a bonus...

by the way Miss Elphaba- that is so scary!! Glad you are okay!

[Mamie]

Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:19pm

ILoveMyDictionary - Tell somebody in authority about these fainting spells - NOW! This is no joke. This can be a sign of some very dangerous things happening that a doctor needs to look at. THINGS that can be fixed if you don't wait too long. PLEASE - no joke. GO TO THE DOCTOR.

[CJR]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 11:26am

About halfway through the first act, I tore all but two of the tendons and ligaments in my ankle during a production of Grease! one year. I thought I twisted it, danced through the rest of the first act, hobbled offstage crying, iced my ankle at intermission, danced through the second act and went to the ortho the next day. He yelled at me and told me I couldn't finish the run..... but with a lot of pain killers I did. Im not so much with the smart sometimes.

Updated On: 6/3/08 at 11:26 AM

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 12:31pm

So glad you are feeling better Yenta

[gumbo2]

Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:50pm

At the end of the first act of How To Succeed...I was standing on top of a desk, and during the blackout I had to hop down to get offstage. I stepped down and tripped over a chair I didn't see and banged my head against the desk. No one saw because it was a blackout, but I had a bloody nose all through intermission and had to do the second act with a huge cut on my nose and one nostril clogged.