Your best (or worst) bloopers.

[DEFYxGRAViTY721]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 10:49pm

You can't go through a show without having a few bloopers, so I figured I'd start this thread so we can share all of our bests and worsts. I guess I'll start.

I just wrapped up a performance of Beauty and the Beast where I was Belle and probably my favorite blooper happened on opening night. In the scene where Belle is asking Lefou where he found her father's scarf, I was supposed to non chalantly wrap the scarf around his neck, then "choke" him with it and when I was unwrapping it from around his neck I accidentally ripped his wig right off and it landed right in his hands. I had to do everything in my power to keep from bursting out laughing, but the audience was hysterical. It was hilarious.
The worst blooper of BATB happened on closing night during the transformation. I looked up at the guy who was playing Beast right before he became the prince and I saw some blood on his face. I started freaking out internally thinking I accidentally hurt him, but it turns out he had a nose bleed! He had no time to stop it because we each have quick changes right after the transformation. So, he performed the rest of the show with a bloody nose and actually bled on the gold Belle dress. Let's just say the costume company was not thrilled with us after that little mishap =/

[fabala4077]

Posted: 6/18/07 at 11:57pm

This wasn't me, but it's my favorite blooper by far:

In "The Illusion" a guy had to boast "Ships, men, I need no ships!" On opening night, it came out "Ships, men, I need no shrimps!" Poor Mikey.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:57am

In HARVEY, we were all standing around not knowing what the next line was. In an ill-advised attempt to diffuse the moment, I take a deep breath, savor the moment, and say "Ahh...silence..."

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:01am

In Alice in Wonderland, I played the Dodo. I had a huge pillow in the back of my jumpsuit to give me a big bum. I started out my first scene sitting on the end of the stage. Opening night, the pillow proved itself to be a little difficult and I could NOT get up. I almost went off the end of the stage.

[jennyish]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 1:04pm

During our final dress for Footloose (a.k.a. the worst two hours you can spend in a school auditorium) Ethel suddenly ran offstage during "On Any Sunday". It turns out she had a doctor's appointment . . . which she had told no one about.

The following scene was a lot of fun . . . in the physical absence of Ethel, we simply discussed her. "Oh, Ethel and her husband are separated." "Please, call her Ethel!"

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 2:49pm

Last year I was Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and at Muzzy's party there's a dance sequence. At one point we were doing these high kicks and I was supposed to make it look like I kicked the glass that the news reporter lady was holding and it spills all over her, she screams yadda yadda.

But one night I actually kicked the glass and the water went into her mouth and she tried to scream and she sounded like she was gargling the water. I laughed but it became a new character choice because my director liked it! So I guess some bloopers are for the better haha

[raphael06]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 4:59pm

Years ago I played Friedrick in THE SOUND OF MUSIC. There was a 30 second costume change in which all the Von Trapps had to change into their "party" costumes (mine was a full tux!) and then the ball/party scene begins. We each had three changers to strip and dress us in those few seconds. However, one night the costumers mixed up my pants with the Captain's pants so I come running down the stairs of the Von Trapp house in the next scene not realizing that my pants had fallen to my ankles... i had to physically hold up those circus-tent sized pants for the rest of the scene.

The best part was when I looked over at the guy who was playing my dad who had split my pants down the middle and they only came down to the top of his shins!

[jennyish]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 5:38pm

dramatothemax, that reminds me of when I was playing Essie in "You Can't Take It With You" (a show as awesome as Footloose is awful). One night, in a rush of excitement to go up the 'stairs' and get my ballet shoes, I tripped and fell flat. The man playing Grandpa turned to Kolenkhov and went, "I think she's getting more graceful, don't you?" Afterwards, he (Grandpa was also the director) decided to keep it in the show.

[fabala4077]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 9:03pm

On the subject of bad costume changes, I was The Witch in Into The Woods (an infamous quick change, in which the Witch magically transforms from an ugly hag to a beautiful young woman in three short lines of dialogue). For our dress rehearsal, I nailed the change except for one thing: my latex witch nose. So I was a beautiful young woman with an ugly rubber nose. The rest of the cast constantly made fun of me.

The middle school did Snoopy, and one night the poor little boy who played Snoopy lost his microphone. He spun around to execute a dance move, got tangled in his lapel cord, and yanked the lapel out of the battery pack. Then, having successfully rescued his battery pack from the ground, he nonchalantly clipped it back onto his pants. He spun around again, and the battery pack flew off his pants and into the wings. Oops.

[DEFYxGRAViTY721]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 9:55pm

I had a few costume bloopers as well. A few years ago I had a dance solo in a variety show I was in. My costume was pretty simple, just my leotard and a flashy red skirt that had to be tied. Well, since this was also a singing number I had a mic pack and I accidentally clipped it to the back of my very flimsy skirt. Well, there was a jump in my combination and when I got back down from the jump into my turn, my skirt couldn't hold the weight of the mic causing my mic pack and skirt to fall off onstage. I performed the rest of my combination skirtless in just my leotard and the rest of the number microphone-less. It was soo embarrasing. People still tease me about it today =/

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:09pm

I played Jan in "Grease", and as I said my last line just before Mooning, nothing happened! It was the cue for the music, but apparently the music wouldn't work...Roger and I were left trying to make up lines where it was nearly impossible to fake it! Finally, Roger said "We should sing a song about it." and the music started...it was priceless!

[Taryn]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 11:36pm

Fabala, that's so freaky, cause I was Jack's Mom in ITW my senior year of high school and our Witch did the EXACT SAME THING at a dress. Weird.

Probably my worst blooper was that same show when I actually missed my entrance for my death scene. The Baker and Little Red improved a few lines and then Rapunzel just went on and did her bit. Fortunately, I heard Rapunzel scream, freaked out, and ran on stage after her death and did my scene. It wasn't...TOO weird, except for the poor girl playing the Witch who had to wait all through my death scene stuff to sing "Lament."

[tigerseye13]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 1:05am

hehehe I have two:
The first show I ever did, I played Nurse Cher Silverstone in this stupid middle school show and I was super ditzy. In this one scene I had to jump onto a table because I was running from a mouse and the final dress rehearsal, when I jumped on the table it snapped in half... it hurt
Second one was I was the Ladybug in James and the Giant Peach (as you can see form my pic) and one of the nights I was really tired. I never had to put my costume on until they called places because I didn't enter until like 20 minutes in. So that night I threw my costume on at the last possible second and ran on stage just in time for my cue; neglecting to put on my tights. So we get to this scene where we all fell on the floor and stuck a leg in the air (sounds weird, i know) and the entire audience got a love shot of my panties...

[theatreismylife]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 8:58am

well, I didn't personally make this blooper, but my good friend did, and I doubt she'll ever live it down.

In The Music Man, does everyone know the scene where Harold Hill comes to Miss. Paroo's house to ask for Winthrop's measurements? Well, during our first time off book my friend hadn't quite memorized the specific measurements, and instead of calling line, she decided it would be better to keep the flow of the scene going and make up measurements. I don't remember what she had said for the first two (waist and inseam maybe??) But I clearly remember what she said for the this mearsurement

"Crotch 32!"

Needless to say, the flow of the scene was interupted as everyone burst out laughing. :)


imagine a person with a 32" crotch!!!!! haha everytime I remember that story I call her and just say 32 to her. She cracks up.

[adoannie]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 12:01pm

I was playing Vera in a production of PAL JOEY and my husband was supposed to walk on stage with a walker, well he missed his entrance and I was stuck on stage calling for him. Eventually I just yelled, "Preston! Did you fall down the stairs again?"
I then preceded to sing the beginning of Bewitched accapella!

[cait]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 6:32pm

Oh goodness I have some good ones. Ok, when I did Seussical I palyed Mrs. Mayor and I had these awful shoes. They were about 2 sizes too big, and they added a little curly-que thing on the end so they were even longer. On our final performance, I fell down a flight of stairs ONSTAGE. Then, in Beauty & the Beast during the wolf dance, the Beast is supposed to "throw" the wolves away from him across the stage. Well, our Beast accidentially threw a wolf off the stage into the audience!! Then during Hans Brinker, a show were the entire cast is on roller blades (bad idea, by the way) I nearly skated off the stage during curtian call. My brother had to catch me before I fell into the audience. And the last big one was during our school's one act last year. We did a show called Louder, I Can't Hear You in which I played this crazy house wife. Our kitchen table we used was a peice of junk and we always joked that it would collapse during the show. Guess what? It did. The last 3 lines of our final performance the table completely collapsed. The guy who played my husband and I completely lost it.

[fabala4077]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:14pm

Speaking of throwing things into the audience, in "The Illusion" there was a pretty intense fight between two guys. One night, one of the guys hit the other's sword out of his hand (supposed to happen) and into the audience (wasn't). So poor Carter had to leap offstage, throw himself into the aisle, find his sword, and leap back onstage before the fight could continue. Then, when he knocked the OTHER guys's sword away, it flew across the stage and hit the ingenue in the face.

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 3:48pm

In guys and dolls there's a fight scene that i'm in and last night during a performance there's a part of the fight where one guy tumbles backward over a table and falls next to the exit. I make my exit over there and I step over him to leave, well last night he starts getting up as i'm stepping over him so I almost fall on top of him.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 3:59pm

Last year I was in an original enemble piece play. There 11 people on stage for most of the show. There were only two instances where we had fewer, one where there was 6, the other there was only 2. Well...during our final dress rehearsal (with a small invited audience mind you), someone jumped us 10 minutes ahead, and we all had to go off stage and leave the 2 characters there. We skipped nearly 10 minutes of the play!

[lilprima2b2]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:37pm

I was in Joseph a couple months ago and during the Egypt scenes, we had to wear these horrible wigs with beaded hairpieces over them. And I am wig-retarded... so anyway, at one point, I had to do a flip over my partner's arm, and I did it, and I felt something slip off my head. I figured it was just my beaded thing, but then I looked down, saw my entire wig/hairpiece contraption on the floor, and realized that I was in a wig cap in front of 250 people. THAT was embarrassing... I think everyone onstage almost lost it too..

[theatreholic]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 7:08pm

When I was in Into The Woods, I was Little Red.
My friend Mia was Cinderella.
And the tape for Steps Of the Palace didn't come on.
So this stupid kid, Sam came onstage and started dancing until the tape played.
Also, Sam messed up his lines and instead of covering up, he did a "rewind".

Blah.
He's very unprofessional.

[BNN]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:21pm

I was Dauntless in Mattress and I randomly busted out a southern accent for a few minutes. I honestly don't know how it happened but it was hard to keep a straight face afterwards.

[fabala4077]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 1:29am

erm, not exactly a theatre booper but tonight during my dance recital I think I scared some of the other dancers (you know, the kind of dancers who are like "Oh, we dahnse! Get out of my way! I have to take off my leotard!" bleh)

There's a section in my tap dance when I get to leave the stage for about 10 seconds. Well, tonight I was quite thirsty and decided it was a good idea to race backstage, take a lovely swig out of my water bottle, and make my entrance. Well, I made my entrance but I went "TAP TAP TAPPY TAP TAP TAP SLUUUUURP!! TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAPPY!!!!"

[xelphiex]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 9:42am

Ok so it was our final dress rehearsal of West Side Story and we were half way through the Jets songs and Riff has just left the stage, the guys who are singing the rest of the song walk out on to the stage extensions while the rest of the Jets are dancing away. The next thing i know all we could see was the heads of Action and A-Rab...The Stage extensions had collapsed!!! It was the funniest thing, you kind of had to be there though. They kept on singing while the whole of the cast and crew couldn't stop laugh. We're just glad it happened before our opening night, because it took over an hour to fix.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 6/23/07 at 6:01pm

Not my own, but...

In the version of The Pied Piper that I was recently in, Saurkraut, the president of the town council, has a line about how it's time to "strike a blow for freedom." One night the girl in the role got a bit flustered during that monologue and finally got the words all out, but ended it up by shouting - and I quote -

"CITIZENS!! It's time to BLOW FOR FREEDOM!!!"

Needless to say, we all lost it for a good three minutes (audience included) and during the rest of that scene, nobody could make eye contact without breaking into another silent fit of giggles. This was also the performance where I became distracted by what looked like a banana peel stuck to the ceiling and came in late on a line...