Most Unprofessional Thing You've Ever Witnessed During a Performance? — Page 3

My Mom and I went to see CATS about a week ago, Id seen it before and she hadnt. So she was asking me to explain the plot to her in the middle of the show!

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^ OH MY GOD I WAS IN THAT SHOW... The Clumsy Custard Horror Show. When I was eleven. It was the first theatre thing I ever did... I played one of the evil twins. I have NEVER seen it mentioned anywhere else!! Just had to say that.

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bumpica bumpica.

How about having cast members of your high school show doing weed backstage. I think that that's pretty unprofessional. Oh, and this is a private school with a sterling reputation nationally, not some inner city public school.

I have another thing I did that was unprofessional. During dress rehersal a group of girls and I would run back and forth between the choir room and our theatre. In the choir room we would watch the RENT movie (this was just after it was released on DVD) It wasn't during a performance, but it was still unprofessional

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There was a big incident during one show where there were a few young kids in the cast and usually someone would bring in a portable dvd player and play it in the dressing room. It usually didnt bother anyone and they would have the volume turned down. They would usually watch movies that were family friendly but one day someone put in Cruel Intentions and some people got really mad because they were letting the young kids watch it too.

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Just the other day I saw a version of West Side Story, and during a scene change someone said in a mic, to be heard over all the speakers "Now i'm ready for sex."

when i was a freshman we did grease and one of the greasers missed his cue delaying the scene for 30 seconds because he was making out with his girlfriend back stage and did't even know the show had started....

and then when i was sky in guys and dolls this year during the mission scene where sarah hands sky the phamplets from her desk the tech crew had put hand cuffs and condoms in the desk. needless to say we almost lost it but the audience couldn't tell. it is fun to watch our faces on the dvd though

We Had a completely unproffesional performance of The Voice of the prairie. It was our UIL show, but we performed it once for and actual audiance, and because it was the most stressful show weve ever done, the actors decided to have fun. The unzipped their pants before going on stage, whispered very sexual things to David as he was frozen from offstage, The newspaper man who was supposed to be offstage ran on stage, did a pirouette, and ran off. And he came on again in place of an extra and kissed his onstage girlfriend, but he is very very flamboyant.

We couldn't do evening of scenes because of it.

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How about too numerous to mention . . . all the unprofessional behavior I've seen, heard about and once or twice participated in. Yet, sometimes, we call it something different -- like "closing night pranks", really.

I did see the Broadway touring cast of "Annie", in my home town of Phoenix, AZ (when I was in high school). The little Broadway actresses, playing the orphans, during "Maybe" were breaking the fourth wall and talking about and pointing to us, in the audience!!!

Community Theatre -- Closing night of "My Fair Lady" we wanted to 'break up' the actor playing Mr. Higgins (he never broke character, never). Thus, as his various servants, we have a scene where we all shake hands with him. Each and everyone of us had something wet, goo-ey, cold or gross in our hands. Some of this crap dripped onto the stage and the audience definitely saw it. We did manage to break him up when some had a lubricated condom filled with sand and covered in honey shake his hand!

We were doing "Chicago" . . . one of the other Merry Murderesses, during the 'He Had It Coming' number, BIT another Merry Murderess in the leg!!! Drew blood and caused a bad bruise and the actress had to get a tetanus shot. The Bitress (let's call her) said she "was so into character" she felt the need to take a bite out of her cellmate. We all lectured her about professionalism, even if you are "in character"!

I mean, geez, what is the damn theatre is on fire? Are you going to be "too into character" to leave?!

During "My Fair Lady" we also had a 'dirty old man' in the cast. During 'Ascot' he would run his hand up our dresses and touch our butts, inner thighs and such and come thisclose to our crotches. He did this when we were FROZEN and facing the audience; thus, the audience had no clue and his wife (on stage) was so blind without her glasses, she didn't know either. Finally, tired of the creepy feeling of his hands aiming to touch my crotch -- as I turned, toward him (with my back to the audience) -- I stragetically covered his crotch with me and my dress and grabbed his crotch and squeezed as hard as I could, grinning at him (mind you, the audience could not see my face)! As his face reddened and he fought to stay upright; he stopped groping us women during the show; due to my revenge!

Unprofessional . . .perhaps; but, a girl has to do what a girl has to do!

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I did Footloose this past year and during "Let's Hear it for the boy" (First major dance in act II), there was a part where we all hit the floor. A girl who had missed her cue walked on right when we all went down. Of course, we were filming that day so you see her do it too...

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