Tales from community theatre

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 6:35pm

We all have them... the funny, the weird, the insane, and the bad... please share!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 7:08pm

i actually have none.

Posted: 7/15/06 at 7:29pm

I was watching a children's production of The Hobbit. A former friend of mine (who is quite chubby) was playing William the troll. There was this part where a bunch of them fall down and his shorts fell down. And I don't think he was wearing underwear.
He was killed in a car accident last May, so I don't think it's funny anymore.

I was in Fiddler on the Roof and my friend, who was playing Perchik was onstage in his first scene. His blocking was that he ate some cheese from the cart. He did. And choked on it. There was about a three-minute pause onstage and the audience applauded. Certain cast members made improvised jokes about that incident all throughout the show. Our musical director (who is the great Karen L. Fruits mentioned in my sig) was not pleased.

[Marlene]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 1:12pm

I considered doing community theatre this summer, but backed out since I had other opportunities...so I don't have any stories.

[jlc6314]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 1:26pm

I was in a community youth theatre production of "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat", and there weren't enough boys that signed up, so some of the girls had to play the brothers. I ended up playing Levi, and we didn't even have real costumes. We all wore red shirts with our character's name on the front, and black pants. This was funny in itself, and then during our only performance, when we were coming to the front of the stage to do the last song, my friend who was also playing a brother and standing to my right, tripped and fell flat on her face and everybody started laughing.

[singingwendy]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 10:45pm

Many years ago, I went to see a friend in a production of "Oliver"...she was one of the orphans in the work house. The show was fine until it was Nancy's turn to sing her big ballad which went something like this:

As long as he (gasp) needs (gasp) me (gasp)
I know where I (gasp) must (gasp) be (gasp)

Seems Nancy was a many pack a day smoker with very little breath control!

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 12:13am

Into the Woods, with an eight-year-old performing The "Rules" from The Frogs before the show started.

I'm ashamed to say I was actually IN the show. Jack and I tried to contain our laughter behind the "houses" during this.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/17/06 at 3:17am

About 10 years ago, I was a graphic designer for a tiny theatre about 20 minutes from my house. The artistic director was a cool, although very scatterbrained guy who basically operated on a shoestring budget and did everything. However, he always paid on time, though suspiciously once in a while with cash.

Then he started paying later and later. The last project I worked on, he mailed me a check and wrote on the invoice, "Thank you!" with a smiley face. He'd NEVER done that before.

Now, at this point, I think the season was over, but there was still next season to think about. I hadn't heard from him in a while, but hadn't called since I was busy with college.

Maybe a month after the "Thank you!" invoice, I was eating dinner with my family at a restaurant down the block from the theatre. I decided to go take a look at what might be in the window over there.

Guess what was on the door?

"NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT."