Stupidest thing you've ever done on stage. . .

[dancing_through_life]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:13pm

Mine would definitly have to be when I was in Mattress my sophomore year. I was the Jester and the Queen was pulling me across the stage by my ear and I was wearing ballet flats. Well wouldn't you know as I was pulling away from her I tripped and fell right on my arse! I played it off though like it was suppose to happen, but the cast certainly didn't let me forget about it :)
How bout you guys?

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:23pm

During Cinderella we had to storm at the Prince and block him from reaching Cinderella when she runs up the stairs. I fell down, but I played it off. But the director loved it so much he told me to keep it and make it bigger.

[matt schneider]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:02pm

Fell off it, does that count as on stage?

Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:03pm

This story was sort of passed down to me.

"The Sound of Music"...right before Climb Every Mountain...there was a HUGE crash backstage. A friend of mine that was back there waiting for a cue panicked and yelled "OH! Somebody dropped the organ again!!!".
The audience went crazy and the two actresses on stage were fighting back laughter.

And lets see...
I was in "Antigone" last year as one of 12 greek chorus members. We were pretty creepy. We were all uniform with these scary masks on. We moved and spoke at the same time, creating patterns and a very frightening force of stone-looking creatures.
Well during the last scene Creon says something to affect of "They're all sleeping....it must be good to sleep" while we're all staring at him and then we were supposed to all respond in unison "Tomorrow you will bury them..." ect.
On this particular night, however...our Creon decided to take a huge dramatic pause in the middle of his line. The chorus member standing next to me (also one of my good friends) throught he was finished and started the next line....alone.
I believe it went something like "TOMORRO....****."
Even the "****" echoed through the auditorium.
Tears immediately started collecting on the inside of my mask because I had to fight the urge to burst out laughing. It was painful. I looked at the other chorus members and they were all holding it in, too. You could see everyone's shoulders going up and down. I seriously considered turning and striding offstage...I was close enough to stage left that I probably could have done it unnoticed.
When it came time to do the line we all let out a wavery "Tomorrow you will bury them...". I personally lipsynched it because I didn't want to laugh. Fortunately a few of us were still on top of it and could manage to squeeze the line out.
When we finally got to leave the stage, we all collapsed on the ground and just died. The poor girl who did it ran to the corner and wouldn't let anyone touch or talk to her.
But we laugh about it still. She appreciates how funny it was now that its all over.
So I guess that wasn't something stupid I did but that I had to work around.
Just thinking about it still makes me laugh, haha.

[flicker_]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:13pm

I was in Les Miserables and on stage singing the song "Drink With Me". Then all the women were supposed to leave, so I did. In the wing was the black, iron gate of Rue Plumet. Of course it's dark in the wings and I can barely see...so, naturally, I trip over it. GOD! It made the loudest sound ever that resonated throughout the entire theater! I was kicking myself in the green room for at least twenty minutes.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:17pm

I'm extremely bad at ad-libbing and there was a moment onstage during HARVEY where literally EVERYONE onstage forgot their lines. And so, seizing the moment, I said (I **** you not...) "Ahh....silence..."

Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:20pm

hahahaha

[BNN]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 9:12pm

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown!

:)

[balletandbroadway]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 10:28pm

I was playing "Ruby Rae" in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and, of course, the costumes aren't the most covering. I ended up flashing the entire audience when I bent down during "Lil Bitty Pissant Country Place" and they were filming for the dvd that night... Now, everytime you watch the dvd, there's a close up of me flashing the audience...

[Blair]

Posted: 8/14/06 at 12:09am

Mine was when I was the Wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast. I walked onstage for the fight scene, scared Lefou with my high note, and chased him to the other side of the stage. Well, someone decided to put a loose sound cord right infront of the stage left exit. I caught my foot in it and went flying (huge Wardrobe costume and all) into the open door with a curtain over it where I was supposed to exit.

Luckily enough, it was a performance for pre-school to 2nd grade age kids, and they just thought that it was the funniest thing they had ever seen.

[lilprima2b]

Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:13am

Ooooh, once I was dancing cooks in The Nutcracker (this stupid part that Nevada Ballet Theatre used to have) and I was in the front and I completely forgot what I was supposed to be doing. The other three girls were doing pique arabesques, and I was like, BAM developpe ecarte! I felt like the world's biggest loser.

Oh, and once I did chaines offstage and got tangled in a curtain (it was during a modern piece, and it was like, chaines in a contracted position with the head down). You can see the curtain wiggling around on the video...

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 1:07pm

One night during a performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie we were doing the dance sequence at Muzzy's party. (When Millie spills champagne on Dorothy Parker and then tries to clean it with soy sauce)

And in the dance Dorothy Parker just stands there with her champagne glass bouncing to the tune and then I "kick the glass" (she spills it on herself) and screams yadda yadda.

Well! One night I actually kicked the glass dead on (thanks to my top notch soccer skills) and it spilled on her for real and she tried to scream but she sounded like she was gargling salt water or something. It was SO funny. Usually I made the choice to be all worried and apologetic, but when that happened I started laughing and then turned that into a choice. No one knew but the cast but it was SO effing funny.

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 2:43pm

Last musical I did, the first performance, the mic power box fell off, and slammed on the ground. I handled it moderately well, but I still felt pretty stupid.

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 3:46pm

This is really just something funny that happened during a show. Doesn't really involve me. We were doing Les Mis. It was right before the beginning of Act 2. Enjolras was supposed to lead all the students on as the scrim goes up. But one night, the scrim wasn't going up. So he decides to lead them on in front of the scrim. He steps over the end of the scrim so he's stradling it. And just now the scrim starts to go up. You know how there's the extra bit of rod at each end of the scrim? Well, this part catches him and lifts up off the floor. Several feet! They had to call up to the guy to let him down again. At least it was only a rehearsal.

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 4:52pm

Graceland (One act)

Charlotte's Web (Edith Zuckerman)

need I say more?

Oh and once I had top pretend to be a ferret....

[flicker_]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 5:48pm

Oh, God how could I forget this one...

Also in Les Miserables, during "Do You Hear the People Sing", we have our backs to the audience, looking up at Enjolras, who begins the song by standing on the table and singing to us. He's supposed to pull another guy up on the table with him, and then we all join in and gradually turn toward the audience. One night, the guy (my friend John) who is supposed to join Enjolras on the table doesn't get up there successfully. Enjolras puts out his hand and everything, but he doesn't put any effort into pulling John up. The result? John slips down the side of the table, his singing line wavering with the surprise. He tried to keep a straight face, which he did for the most part except for his eyes widening a little. Enjolras and John make a second attempt, and this time it works, but everyone facing the table just looked like they were about to die, their mouth twitching, trying to hold back a smile. We all slowly turn around after John's line singing, "Do you hear the people sing," with these weird expressions on our faces, haha. Oh God, it was hilarious.

[Cheno'sBiggestfan]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 11:36pm

I tripped during my character's eath scene...twice...

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 11:41pm

I was in a production of Into the Woods a while back as Cinderella. And the gold shoes didnt quite fit me, (too big) And since Cinderella is always running and things, one night as I was running, the largness of the shoes over powered me and I slid off stage on the heels at basically a 90 degree angle backwards and slid into the Baker who then slid into a row of metal chairs. THANK GOD FOR DRESS REHEARSALS.

[deardarling]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 12:39am

Chorus.
I was soooo tempted to say that. :P

[BNN]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 12:53am

I remembered an actual good one this time. I was in a production of Caucasian Chalk Circle and my character had a gun, but I realized I had no holster. Usually I would just tuck in into the waist of my pants but on one of our performance nights, the gun slipped all the way down my pants and into the floor. It was not a great feeling.

[brdwybound2]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 1:47pm

My most recent stupid thing I've done during a performance was during a promotional performance of a medley at this huge fair type thing they have once a month in downtown Kansas City for the theatre that I've been working with a lot this summer. We were doing a medley of songs from different shows at the theatre for the summer, and we were in this parking lot so there were tons of cars and people everywhere, and as we started singing "Seasons of Love", this car drives by and honks the horn, but the horn was one of those ones that plays Circus Music. Of course this had to happen during the most serious song in the medley and I couldn't help laugh because the car KEPT driving by and honking. It was so embarassing to be laughing during the performance, but my friend and I were standing right next to each other and had to mouth the words for a while just to get ourselves under control.

[mizzie]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 2:41pm

Okay. I just played the Stage Manager in Our Town. The show started with me calling the Asst. Stage Managers onto the stage and watching them set it, trying to be really mean to them. After the stage is set we all leave the stage and the lights go out completely. While the lights are out I have to make my way to Downstage Right infront of the table that is there.

I couldn't see a thing. I rammed right into the table just as my spotlight was going up. It was so embarrassing.

[broadwayboy1007]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 2:46pm

haha in my show choir (which i have concluded that it should be considered a sport) i was in the front row and we were performing and dancing to "burning love" from All shook up, and well somehow i fell completely flat on my face!! ahh talk about embarrassing!!

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 3:16pm

Most of my stupid moments happen backstage, but that's somehting for another thread.

I was Annie the girl scout in Dear Edwina Jr. and I had this folding beach chair I had to open, and it opened differently from the ones I use. I couldn't get that stupid thing open, but all of a sudden *pop* it unfolded and went flying a few feet away from me. Someone in the ensemble covered it up and went "Ha, and you call yourself a Girl Scout!"

[HeartandMusic]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 6:19pm

In seventh grade I passed out onstage during a choir concert.
'Nuff said. : )