Bloopers in Broadway shows? — Page 4

Spring Awakening: Before "The Dark I Know Well" Lauren Pritchard had Lilli Cooper's mic, during the scene change she quickly ran to put the mic stand in place and hit the platform in the middle of the stage and fell on her face. The whole theater was silent. Even though she was never asked about it at the stage door she seemed really upset, I asume she was upset about it.

Wedding Singer: during the Finale, one of the impersonators' mic was falling of the mic stand the whole song, so at certain points you never heard her, so a few of her lines were missed.

Wicked tour: During the catfight the curtain was stuck blocking half of the set, It was there up until the part where the witches started attacking each other.

During the finale the bubble malfunctioned and Glinda walked to stage right and did her speech and song on stage.

Legally Blonde: In the bathroom scene before Laura Bell introduces Enid her shoe got stuck. I don't know on what, because I was sitting in the front row, so all I saw was her strugling and smiling. after she was free, she giggled a little to herslef and resumed the scene. When she was telling Enid to step in to the shower she was like "careful now, dont get stuck!"

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Updated On: 6/27/08 at 11:17 AM

I saw NOVEMBER Tuesday night. Great great crowd. Everyone was fantastic on stage.

Someone said the wrong line, and then they all cracked up. They were trying to hold it in and it looked like they were tearing up.

I recently saw a local production of Ah! Wilderness. The theater I saw it at is outdoors, and the stage has a few different levels. Towards the end of the show, on the lowest level, a bed was supposed to be pushed out from the level above the lowest. The stagehands pushing it must have not been pushing straight, because it got caught on the side of the stage, and they couldn't get it out for quite some time. The actors handled it well, though. :P

Also at one performance of Rent, Tamyra choked on the 'champange' during Happy New Year. That was hilarious.

There were a few flubs in Boeing Boeing last night. I don't remember what happened exactly but in the scene where Mary & Gina meet one another, Gina reacted to something Mary said and they both started laughing. Mary was laying on the floor with Mark so the audience couldn't really see her laughing but I could, since I was in a box. Also, during the final scene Bradley broke one of his wine glasses. He said something like "I broke my glass, does that mean bad luck?" And then he asked Mark, "Do you want some wine?" to which Mark replied, "Yes, but in my glass," and the two laughed. It was cute.

I saw the show in early June and found Bradley & Kathryn exceedingly annoying, but last night, not so much. What a funny show. They all work so well together.

The only one coming to my mind is when I saw Legally Blonde. It was during Chip on My Shoulder and Christian Borle was drinking the red bull and he started to like choke on it and he looks over at LBB when he's done coughing and goes "I'm okay now." I haven't seen too many bloopers...yet

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There are two that come to mind.

The most recent one was in Wicked. It was right before One Short Day where Elphaba tells Glinda to come with her to the Emrald City. Elphaba and Glinda hug before Elphaba says the line " Come with me to the Emerald City." Which of course starts the song. Elphaba was played by Block and Glinda was played by Kessbaum. When the two of them hugged Block got her hair stuck in the hair clip that was in Kessbaum's hair. They both broke character trying to get the hair unstuck and they were laughing so hard. The ensemble just came on thinking that they were in the right spot even though they were clearly thrown off. They were laughing during most of the first verse of the song.

The second was a while ago during a performance of Rent during "You'll See." Matt was playing Mark and his mic went out. I have seen mics go out before and they just grab one of the hand mics that was on stage and go on. Justin Johnson was right by the hand mic that was going to be used next in Tango Maureen. Of course it was off but the sound guy wasn't paying attention and never turned it on. Mark has the most lines in that song so the music just played and they went on without him. The song/scene made no sense to anyone who hadn't seen it but because it wasn't my first time seeing the show and because I knew the lyrics really well without Matt singing I was fine. But, it was clear that he was frustrated.

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At Roundabout's revival of Apple Tree, in the middle of Forbidden Fruit, Marc Kudisch had to lie on the stage trying to look like a snake AND pull an apple out of his pocket AND all the while singing, "...skin, seeds, flesh and core", a tongue twister all by itself! It didn't go well, and he quickly said something to the conductor, like, "let's try that again", and it was done. My husband and I remember it well, not because it was a rare Broadway blooper but because Kudisch handled it so well, if you weren't listening closely at that very moment, you'd never have noticed! Can't wait to see him in 9-5!

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At the 7/26 8PM performance of Damn Yankees: After re-enacting Jane Krakowski's "Whatever Lola Wants" dance, Sean Hayes stood with his left profile facing the stage. The crowed cheered and laughed loudly at his mockery of the dance. After 15 seconds or so, Hayes, overcome by the humor, had to turn his face to the rear of the stage and laugh - and the crowd cheered louder.

It's was just like SNL moments when cast members can't keep a straight face during skits. I'll never forget it!

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8/15 performace of Grease:

1. During the dance Janine DiVita (Rizzo) is dancing with Matt Hydzik (on for Derek Keeling). The line is "How about being my partner for the dance contest?" But instead she says "How about taking me to the dance?"

2. When Will Blum comes running out swinging his arial for the brawl with the Flaming Dukes the end snaps off and flies into the audience. Luckily, no one was hurt.

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I wonder what I'd do if a cast member tried to steal one of my belongings. Probably let them and hope they got it back to me during interval/curtain-call. Failing that, go round to the stage door and kick up a stink. XD

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in rent the first two times i saw it they couldnt get the candle lit. the last time they couldnt get it lit because THEY DID HAVE THE MATHCES!!!!HAHAHA and when they sang things about it being lit they would just laugh. "that was my last match hehehe"
there was a video of ashley brown in mary poppins walking out of a door and it wouldnt open and kept trying but just said something clever and walked off stage which she would have been walking into a wall if it were a real house.

neverminid, i had posted a not blooper. lol

Updated On: 8/23/08 at 12:08 AM

This might not be a blooper but when I was on my student tour the last night (8/4) we were in London so they brought us to see Blood Brothers on West End. SO in the second act when they are all older and what not I don't remember what scene it was but someone (not in our group) kind of made a loud cackle yell at the back of the theatre and the whole theatre started to laugh even the actors on stage thuey were all laughing for a good minute or so beore they got back into character.