Your best (or worst) bloopers.- Page 2

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 6/26/07 at 4:28pm

During the last performance of guys and dolls in the havana fight scene a havana dancer goes backwards over a table. Well that night he took a really big konk to the head and yet still kept on going though I could tell he was shaken up for the rest of the sequence. The 3 of us who were havana patrons were supposed to applaud and think oh what great entertainment! well we were applauding but we were all having looks of complete terror on our faces and just kinda leaning over going "jimmy! get up!" after the fight he scrambled offstage demanding ice and a couch to lie down on. after the show people came to us telling us how great the fight looked and we just replied "yeah that's cause it was real tonight!"

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 6/26/07 at 6:13pm

In BYE BYE BIRDIE during a lot of livin', I jumped of really high and shot my arms up at the wrong time so no one else did it! I was in the front row, also. It was incredibly embarrasing. Also, during One Last Kiss, the teen chorus was in the front of the stage and I jumped up to grab Conrad and the girl next to me pulled me down and my pants half down.

[theatrejock310]

Posted: 6/27/07 at 2:08am

hahaha!

One time I was in "Grease" and fell through one of the stage extensions (on final dress rehearsal), during a dance number in "Summer Nights".

Then in the "Gaston" number in "Beauty & The Beast", I tried to backflip off a tavern table, but it slipped and I fell off right before I was attempting to do so.
Luckily I acted as if I were incredibly drunk....

[Little_Miss_Elphie]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:32am

I was Dorothy Parker in Thoroughly Modern Mille this year. At Muzzy's party, Millie spills champagne all over my dress, takes me off stage, and uses soy sauce to try to get the stain off. Well, the time that we had to "put on the soy sauce" was like 20 seconds, and I had to do a quick change backstage. My dress was idenical in the back and in the front so the champange side was in the front and the soy sauce stain was in the back. I wore a matching suit jacket to cover the stain in the back. To make the quick change go faster, the costume crew velcro'd the shoulders of the dress, so during the quick change all they would have to do is swirl the dress around.
Well, the quick change went well for the first 4 performances, but during our saturday matinee, my dress got caught on something, and the costume girls had a hard time turning my dress around. I was already late to make my entrance, so I ran out onto the stage, to scream about the soy sauce. The velcro didn't hold, and I was dead center stage, and my dress fell half-way down my body, exposing my ENTIRE bra to 800 people.
I almost died!
Thankfully, the performances following were bra free.

[rockstarland2]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 12:48pm

1. The Wizard of Oz

The production hired a Toto who was just starting out in the business. At the beginning of the show the dog was supposed to run to center stage & wait for me. He had been great during the technical rehearsals, but during our first preview the second he got onstage & heard the audience, he ran out INTO the audience. So I had the fun job (as Dorothy) to go into the audience & get him.

Tornado Scene, First preview: I start the tornado flight with a pirouette & then the flier is supposed to launch me. We had never ran it in complete darkness before (the wings were lit for the tech rehearsals), so I could only vaguely see people around my fly equipment & just did the pirouette figuring my flier was there. But he was having problems unhooking the witch from the flying bicycle & was late. So I did the pirouette & spun down on my ass (you're supposed to sink your weight into the harness). I couldn't WAIT for that first show to be over.

2. Peter Pan

I have a constant fear that no matter how well I know a song, I'm going to forget the lyrics. So of course...

I Won't Grow Up: Our choreography was specific to the lyrics & I had at least a dozen kids who are supposed to be repeating the lyrics/choreography that I sing. Halfway into the run, I start the song singing the 3rd verse. The second it happens I'm PRAYING that the younger kids will follow me & NOT do what they've been performing for the last 3 months. Most of them did, thank god, but a few of them were rather confused. I spent the 2nd verse racking my brain to remember what I was supposed to sing for the 1st verse, so that I could sing it in place for the 3rd. It came to me eventually, but I was sweating bullets like no other.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 7/21/07 at 4:25pm

Last night during "Beauty and the Beast" (part of the Disney medley in our show), my Beast started to do one of the choreographed lifts, but when he picked up up, he tilted his head back, and the "Beast" head fell off, revealing a very sweaty and embarassed Cory, who proceeded to kick the head to the side and dance the rest of the number without it.

I think we all lost it for a good five minutes (audience, us onstage, EVERYONE backstage) - even more so when I turned to him and said over the music "You're a prince?"

[TheFriarsDruggist]

Posted: 7/22/07 at 9:10pm

This was back in my junior year(like 2 years ago), when my school was doing 'Aida' as our musical, I played Zoser, and had to carry around that staff he has with the eye on it and everything. Well the director had us(myself and the guy playing Radames) getting VERY close to eachother during the 'Like Father, Like Son' number, and at one point(when I was singing the "there's no point in feeling pure boy/you're background intervenes), I was supposed to spin around to look at him. Well during the opening night show, I spun around, but Chris(Radames) was a little TOO close, and as I was turning, I accidentally whacked him pretty hard in the jaw with the staff...We just kept going like it was supposed to happen...Luckily it didn't do any real damage, just caused a lot of pain for the rest of the night...

[musicman_17082]

Posted: 7/25/07 at 8:53pm

I was on stage left and had to be on stage right for a very quick entrance in "Joseph." I made my costume change and started to run to the other side of the stage (due to some odd auditorium construction, we had to run outside and around the building to get to the other side)... I got to stage right in costume and started to get my mic secured. Looking for the chord, I noticed that I had MY CELL PHONE in my hand... NOT the mic pack!!!

I frantically ran to the other side of the stage, swung open the door, grabbed my REAL mic and decided to turn on the sink to grab a quick drink of water (I dried up from all the running). The water came on WAAAAY too powerful and splashed ALL OVER my costume... IN THE CROTCH!

I ran back over to stage right, walked on stage only late for my entrance by a couple seconds... and sat there looking like I had wet myself in attempts to get my stupid mic.

We were doing "Canaan days" and we were supposed to be wiped out on the table... I was wiped out but there was NO ACTING involved... (not to mention trying to get the tablecloth to hide the unwanted moisture...)

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 7/25/07 at 10:09pm

During the We're all in this together dance in High School Musical one of shoes fell off and proceeded to bounce off into the wings and without a second thought I kicked my other shoe off without breaking character. During notes the director and choreographer asked me why I wasn't wearing any shoes and I told them what happened. They thought it was quite amusing.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 12:32am

When I played the Major-General in "Pirates", we had to do a 30-minute preview for the school. Well, (un)fortunately for me, the whole preview revolved around me and made me seem like the super-lead. Before said preview, I put on the wrong boots. I spent the entire preview trying to simply move in those huge boots. During one of my numbers, I had to pretend to ride a horse. It looked more like I was the horse and had broken legs. Anyway, it worked out okay since my character is old, but I could not understand why the boots were so ill-fitting when I had them on perfectly the days before. After the preview, I went to the costume designer, and she told me I was wearing the wrong boots. Thankfully, the full performance was fine.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 9:00pm

Last night, my Adrian Balboa wig came flying off at the end of the scene from Rocky III, when the guy playing Rocky picks me up and spins me back onto the turntable to revolve off.

Hilariously, "Rocky" was the same guy whose Beast head came off a few nights ago, so now we're one for one. But I am pinning that bitch down from now on... stupid quick-changes.

[nate2]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 1:57pm

Actually last night when we were doing the farmer and the cowman in Oklahoma, my dance partner and I had to do a polka dance in a circle with about 5 other couples....and we almost ran into Ali Hakim lol. We judged our spacing kind of bad that night!

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 11:54pm

During High School Musical I sang in Breaking Free from a balcony and then I had about..6-7 seconds to climb down a ladder and be on the bleachers by the time the lights came back up for the final scene. So I was pretty much sliding down the ladder and running on stage. One night the set wasn't moving the same as it always had so I was standing on stage in the dark not sure where to go so I just leaped over to the bleachers and ended up in a cheerleader's lap when the lights came back up. During the scene that followed she said to me "disney would be proud."

[WaitingForKathy]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 5:22pm

We started Fiddler..without a fiddler!

[lilprima2b2]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 5:24am

Since my last reply...

I played Peggy in 42nd Street last month and Billy has a line that goes something like "Okay Peggy, meet me at the stage door!" (before the "speck of dust in your show" scene). Anyway, one night, he got confused for some reason, and goes, "Okay kid... meet me in the parking lot." I literally could not hold it together... I must have looked like a fool during the rest of the scene because I was trying SO HARD not to laugh.

And then on closing night, I got him back; at the end of the show (after the ballet) I say "Meet me at the stage door!" So of course I said "Meet me in the parking lot." (We were AWFUL about closing night jokes... seriously... it was ridiculous. One of the "thugs" pulled a stage gun on Pat Denning instead of punching him in the stomach, Dorothy Brock listed her contract requirements as "cabana boy, butler, and masseuse," Pat Denning drew on a "cholo mustache" - his words, not mine - in eyeliner before "Quarter to Nine"... it was ridiculous.)

[Ingenue]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:35am

I was playing Peter in the show Peter Pan and the fly crew accidently flew me into a set. The set piece then fell over and landed on an ensemble member. I screamed over the mic. I guess they all knew Peter Pan was a girl after that scream. I had the largest bruise on my leg from hitting the set.

[bonjourdevoe]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:32am

i LOVE these...I have a few

1) I did a production of Fiddler where we started once without a Fiddler and came through the audience noticing that Tevye was just kinda...talking, but nothing major...but the next show that day, we came through the audience hearing the fiddler but not hearing tevye, who thought he had time to run to the bathroom

2) I did a production of Alice in Wonderland recently for my dance company, and during the run, some horrible stomach virus spread throughout the backstage, and the last day of the show, my little brother who was playing the white rabbit got sick, so my director told me to do the role. That would have been fine, but this was 30 minutes before the first of 2 shows started, and I knew NONE of his dances. It was safe to say that I BOMBED, and just hopped around alot. oop.s

3) I did The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:The Musical my soph. year in high school. I had a scene in the graveyard with Tom where we see Injun Joe kill someone, and run off. We had about 45 seconds to get backstage from in front of the main curtain on the stage left side, run backstage, grab our props for the next scene, and re renter the stage in front of the main on the right side. This usually went pretty well, but one night, the ensemble was already in the wing for a song that they were too early to get in place for, and I had to fight through the crowd, not wearing shoes (not the best idea anywhere in a show haha), and got on stage to go the scene where Tom and Huck take a vow and sign their names in blood, to look down and see that I had a HUGE cut along the side of my foot that was leaving bloody footprints all over the stage. Later on we wrapped it in medical tape and covered it with foundation, but at the time, since there was blood, I used to to sign my vow. Gross, but i figured, hey...at least its believable.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/4/07 at 3:41am

In my last show of Brigadoon, I plowed into a tree in the blackout before curtain call. People assumed I looked emotional because this was the last show, but I was really tearing up because my shoulder hurt so badly. Good times, good times...