Bloopers and stuff — Page 2

On the Jan 9, 2005 performance of Wicked, at the end of popular when Galinda puts the flower in Elphaba's hair, she couldn't get the clip to close. JLT ended up straddling Sho trying to get it in. It was great ad-libbing and absolutely hysterical. Then in the next scene when Sho comes out wearing the flower, it fell out of hair. Joey couldnt say his line because he was too busy trying not to laugh.

I recently performed in a production of Pippin in my High School and we could NOT have had a worse opening night. However, they do make for amazingly funny stories...

1)Our Leading Player was finishing up Sweet Summer Evenings, and was walking off singing her "na-na-nas", but the director apparently had not told her that he had respiked the tree stage right. As she sang out to the audience, I stood there just off stage awaiting my entrance and watching her collide hopelessly with the tree. She caught it, said another "na" and walked off stage, falling to her knees in anguish...we laughed...

2)In the scene where Pippin first comes home, I (pippin) walked out and was waiting for him to talk. I thought the scene went well, and exited the stage, only to find everyone laughing. Apparently Charlemagne had made a quick change, but forgot to leave his hanger behind. He walked out and did the whole scene with a hanger on his sleeve.

3)During Glory, the LP dropped her hat and the tents that came in on tracks in the back wouldn't come in, and just continued banging together during the scene, along with a banner that was supposed to fall and be carried off from the scene before that did not fall, but rather hung the entire number until our tech director went up to the catwalk and knocked it down.

4)During the scene where Pippin leaves the farm before the finale, I forgot my line, "...and I'm not going to be stuck here doing the same damn thing every day!", so after a pause, Catherine looked at me and said, "Are you sure you don't want to be stuck here doing the same damn thing every day?" We both started to laugh, but we got through...

It was an interesting show, the next night was flawless...go figure...

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this year we did little shop at my high school and our opening night seemed to be going great. well during "the meek shall inherit," the guy doing the three parts, also audrey II, completly forgot the words to skip snip's part in the song, he just stood there and eventually turned to the audience and said-in character- i forgot my line. his mom is our pianist and stood up and yelled the first word is forget. it was hilarious. a few people were mad at him but the audience loved it

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I'm just more intruigued that a high school did cabaret....ours wouldn't even let us pitch it!

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When I saw Julius Caesar (Yes, I saw it, don't cackle) this season, there was one blooper I couldn't miss.

After Caesar's murder, all the conspirators were gathered around the body getting bloody and whatnot, when the little squirt container that held the stageblood rolled out from beneath Caesar's limp arm into clear view or the audience. I'm not sure how many people noticed, and an actor grabbed it after a few moments, but I definitely had a gasp and cover mouth moment. The thing left a trail of stageblood where it had rolled.

The actor's weren't too discreet about squirting it out, either. I was first row balcony, and could blatantly see almost all of them squirt blood into their hands then rub it on their arms, etc.

Needless to say, it broke whatever mood had previously been set.

Earlier this year my high school (now former high school HA) did YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU.

The second act ends with a massive FX, with fireworks supposedly going off in the basement and then we have intermission...we had guys hidden on the sides of the stage(right in front, near the audience but not too close) sending real sparks off towards the audience but not actually on them (with a wheel and tools and stuff). As these guys did this, the computer would play huge fireworks noises, the lights would go funky, and the actors would run paniced around stage.

WELL, one night the computer froze. And with no sound cue, the sparks gusy didn't do anything.. So the actors then spent about 2 minutes hinting and hinting to the tech guys that the fireworks were supposed to go off (thinking that they ahd forgotten the clue), and then spent about 3 minutes covering and ending the scene.

5 minutes of complete improv. that NOBODY NOTICED. It was so funny, if they had not seen or read the show before, they had no clue what went on. It was insane. We ended up redoing the correct ending before act 3 and then going straight into the next scene (which was mine, and we spent the entire thing trying not to cough and ignoring the fact that the entire stage was full of smoke. The audience couldn't stop laughing at us trying to ignore the smoke, it was fun. lol)

Another funny thing related to the show, but not really a blooper, is that we had sweatshirts made with "You Can't Take It With You" on the front and our cast list written on the back. I've had sooo many people come up to me and, not noticing the back I guess, say "You know, you really can't take it with you. ha ha."I tried to explain it to a few people but they looked so sad that I can't make myself do it anymore. Now I smile politely and walk away. *sigh*

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When my high school did "Les Mis", our Val Jean could never remember to sing "One Day More" instead of "One More Day". So, we finally just taped a sign in this trunk he was opening at the beginning of the sign that said "IT'S ONE DAY MORE, YOU MORON!". We tried to tell him before he went out what the sign said, but he wasn't listening. So when he opened the trunk, he just started cracking up.

We also had Enjolras fall off our baracade during a performance. It scared us to death because he hit the stage hard, so we stopped the performance to make sure he was okay. He landed on him back, but he turned out to be okay and finish the performance fine.

I have some Wicked bloopers, too. Not by me 'cause I haven't seen it yet (August), but this is what my best friend told me about the Wicked bloopers:

- April 17th...Jen couldn't get the flower in Sho's hair and they both fell over on the bed and Jen was like, on top of her, struggling and saying "I've got it! I've got it! Really!"

- May 28th when George and Sho are supposed to waltz at the end of "Wonderful" and he's supposed to lift her skirt and hand it to her, but she was standing on it and she almost fell over.

- There was, of course, Jen throwing the wand offstage in "Popular", too...and you could hear it smack into something. So she and Sho couldn't get their lines out.