Most Embarrassing Onstage Moments?- Page 2

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 8/2/10 at 8:37pm

I did end of year first show, a devised piece called 'Welkham East' set in a train station, with my fly undone. For the whole show.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 2:44am

I had a few production embarrassments:

Hello, Dolly!- I was playing Barnaby Tucker in "Hello, Dolly!" and we had just finished the number "Motherhood March". Vandergelder was in the room and I was underneath a table, so a cloth was on the table and covering me from his sight. On top of the table was a stand that held the hat from "Ribbons Down My Back". Now, under this table there was very little space. I accidentally bumped the stand part that supported the table and it went swinging forward. To prevent it from falling I quickly yanked it back. This worked but the hat and stand went over the side. I couldn't see what happened from underneath but Molloy and Vandergelder and Minnie Fay all looked at it then Molloy was distracting Vandergelder. I reached from under the table and felt around for it. I found the stand and pulled it under. I then reached for the hat and yanked back, only to pull out a handful of feathers. By this point the audience was dying of laughter. I wasn't sure if it was the dialogue or me. I found a ribbon and reeled it in very slowly as to not draw attention to myself. This was my first high school show so I thought I would be chastised but NOPE. The director just laughed.

Noises Off!- During a curtain call for Noises Off the stage was extraordinarily slick from the dish soap we'd used as sardine oil. The stage was also full of metal cups and debris from the sequence before. I went to take my solo bow as Tim and successfully slipped and landed almost directly on a solid metal cup. Once again, the same response from the director. This show followed "Hello, Dolly!" in our season.

The Sound of Music- I played Max in our most recent show "The Sound of Music". There are two funny stories here. The first one involves the number "so Long, Farewell" the first time that it's done at the party. We had an 8 year old playing Gretl and she had to go to the bathroom but was told she had to make an entrance and the end of the first act was only a few minutes away. She braved it up until the lines "Cuck-oo" where she looked down ran off stage and the audience heard over the mic system "I wet myself". Our Rolf promptly cleaned it up at intermission. The second screw up came from the guy playing Franz. We had a large set piece with double doors that many people did changes behind. Franz was about to make an entrance while a chorus member who also played Ursula was making a quick change out of her top. He missed his entrance by about a minute while Elsa and the Captain worked their improv skills. He later stated that he was "distracted by Ursula's boobs".

[Musicfan5]

Posted: 1/17/11 at 3:22pm

I was in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and totally messed up my lines. During the opening monologues, I said something just wrong (it was quite a little while ago, so I cant remember what I said). All the cast knew it, but thank goodness the audience didn't know

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/20/11 at 8:07pm

Just when you think things go well, they don't. :)

For the fall play at my school this year, we did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I had 2 roles, but the important part is that I was an Oompa Loompa. We decided to perform parts of our show to elementary schools in the district to try and bring in a bigger audience. The first school we went to was VERY tiny, say 40 or 50 kids at the most if even that many. The 3 other Oompa Loompa members and I went out onstage to perform our presentation of 'Augustus Gloop' to the children. At the very end of the song we had to jump up on stage and throw an imaginary piece of candy into the air and gulp it down. I had a bulky band hat on my head, because we did it in a marching style, so when I threw my head back to catch the fake candy, the hat pulled off my bright hot pink wing, revealing my real hair to the entire audience of 50. I should've improved, but I couldn't think straight. I just remember the audience falling completely silent and when I looked over at my cast members they all looked like they were being burned alive. It is the most embarrassing thing to happen to me on stage to date.

[misstheatregeek]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 10:47pm

My Sophomore year we did Annie Get Your Gun and I was the only Dancer in a Indian costume because I was to short for the Showgirls costumes. As a result, the only way I could do my splits was by having the costumer make huge slits up to my hip on each side. We had this huge swing number with lifts and flips and other nonsense and while being thrown up in the air the ENTIRE Indian dress just flapped up. The audience laughed so hard, and I was horrified because it was my first time as a lead dancer. Luckily I was wearing a lovely little leotard to cover it up.