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A question about Andrea McArdle and Les Miserables.

Posted: 6/12/09 at 11:44am

Someone told me that while she was playing Fantine she hid easter eggs on the set for the children to find and somehow it ruined to set and it had to be replaced.
Has anyone else heard something like that?

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 12:08pm

Yes. She talks about this in the book 'Making It On Broadway'. It is one of the many vignettes describe backstage antics.

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 12:12pm

How did she ruin the set?

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 12:16pm

Yeah... how does hiding easter eggs destroy a set?!

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 1:15pm

Were they real eggs? That could spell disaster for the one egg the kids didn't find...

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 1:16pm

maybe the kids ruined the set?

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 1:34pm

Supposedly only 58 of the 62 eggs were recovered. Sounds disastrous to me.

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 2:29pm

Its possible one broke and no one knew and that could rust up one of the tracks in the deck that the baricade slides on. But to replace a whole set piece sounds a bit drastic to me. unless it stunk things up and they could not get rid of the smell.

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Posted: 6/12/09 at 2:37pm

My impression from the book is that some were never found and got stuck, so when the set transforms into the barricade I guess the eggs stopped it from moving along the tracks and it broke.

But I agree, Justin, it sounds strange that the ENTIRE barricade had to be replaced.

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Posted: 6/15/09 at 9:08am

What happened was sinse it was such a serious show she thought it would be fun for the kids if they could have an easter egg hunt on the baracade with hollow eggs containing money.
Once she cleared it with the stage manager, several dozen eggs were hid on the baracade set but a few (four if i recall correctly) were un-found.
Then later on one of those eggs screwed up the turn-table mechanism so it did not work and she was apparently wrote up to EQUITY - again.

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