ACCIDENTS on STAGE- Page 2

[minettamandy]

Posted: 11/24/03 at 12:56am

Once during Tuesdays with Morrie the piano went to go offstage and it tipped and fell over. They had to stop the show and bring the crew on to pick it up

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 11/24/03 at 1:10pm

At a regional production of "Brigadoon" I saw an actor run across the stage from a runaway tree and later on another actor was almost killed by a falling set piece. At the same theater years later I saw Aunt Eller pull on a wash line too hard durring "Oklahoma!" and pull a windmill across the stage. Granted, these were both dress rehersals, but they were each extremely humorous.

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 11/24/03 at 1:27pm

At a performance of APPLAUSE, Lauren Bacall backed too far upstage in the opening scene and burned her elbow and part of her arm on a very hot lightbulb.

She finished the scene and then the curtain came down and the houselights went up, and we were told Ms. Bacall had a very minor injury and that the show would resume momentarily.

Actually, after about ten minutes they took it from the top, starting with the overture again.

[kyle.]

Posted: 11/24/03 at 1:42pm

2 years ago jessica grové was on for eponine and her knee cap popped out of place when she stepped funny on her boot. she popped it back into place right there on stage and finished the rest of the show but after that performance she was out for about 4 months due to the injury.

[Benzy92]

Posted: 11/24/03 at 3:47pm

In a preview for Jane Eyre, the bed broke... it was really funny and made a loud noise.

[nyctopone]

Posted: 11/24/03 at 6:04pm

I was in the audience the first night that the Met performed The Makrapulis Case. The opera starts in a lawyers office. Vítek, the clerk, climbs on a ladder, fetches a file and sings about the case of Gregor Vs. Prus, about which the verdict is going to be given today, almost after 100 years of legal fights between the two families.

After singing his line "Well, nothing lasts forever", the singer, tenor Richard Varsalle, suddenly fell from the ladder - and died - really died.

Needless to say, they closed the curtain, made an announcement and everyone went home (5 minutes into the show). Ironically the second performance was also cancelled, because of a snowstorm if I remember correvtly. It was the only time the MET has cancelled a show due to weather.

[A_Boy_From_Oz]

Posted: 11/25/03 at 2:18pm

nyc, that's really sad and disturbing.