Your best (or worst) bloopers.

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 =/

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..."

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!"

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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!

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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.

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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!

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...

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!

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.

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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!

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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.

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!!!!"

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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...