Broadway Mistakes

What was the most obvious and embarrasing mistakes you saw in a broadway show. How did they recover?

I've never seen one, but i would like to know what you guys saw.

Anyone see any mistake in Phantom?

Thanks guys

no not really, except that howard mcgillin didn't hold his line at the end of "music of the night" and kept stopping, but thats not a stage mistake

iv never seen an obvious mistake in a show before though, like to with the set or props

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haha....that would have been funny to watch!

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ya, that is insane, also emarrasing!

wexy, off topic a bit, but did you see "The Real Thing"?

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The other day I saw Pajama Game, and during "Seven and a Half Cents," Kelli O'Hara is supposed to catch the pencil someone throws to her and do complicated math on a pad of paper. She missed it when he tossed it, said "I don't need it" in between singing phrases of the song, then proceeded to "do the math in her head," wiggling her fingers as if she were counting, and came up with the answer :)

Sorry to threadjack but I ADORE your avatar Dre2387!!!!

The Blonde In The Thunderbird

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I saw "The Show Off" at Roundabout which takes place in the 20' and one of the charachters was reading a newspaper right in front of the stage and it that day's New York Post.

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I saw Phantom on a day when the boat crashed, didn't turn on cue (nearly ran Hugh Panaron down), the mask was dropped causing him to trip and fall, the curtains weren't raised on time for one scene...

It was a pretty rough performance, esp. since he'd been hit by a car on the way to work, too.

I've heard at least one other story about the throne malfunctioning and Jeff Keller handing the mask out from under the cape. I rather like the playing-dead way of covering, though.

There's a site with tons of Phantom mishaps...

http://www.freewebs.com/lamentablemess/main.htm

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When I saw wicked Idina and JLT got their hair tangled at the start of 'One short day' and took a long time to pull themselves apart then even longer to compose themselves!

In 'the foreigner' matthew broderick managed to crack up most of the cast and himself at one point, then sat down for a few seconds shaking his head until they all pulled themselves together

Hunter Foster flubbed the 'Mr Marks' line at the end of the producers by calling him 'Mr Bialystock' and then continued 'No, wait you're not Mr Bialystock you're the other guy- mr Marks yes that's your name.' During the same show when Bialystock threw Bloom's coat at the begining it got stuck on the windows and he added 'You like my new curtains?' to the 'do the books' bit

And my favorite is when mark's glasses went flying across the stage in Rent during 'Rent' then about 10 seconds later he knocked his camera off the table

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I never actually saw this, but the story has been going around for years. In JCS, in a performance when Manoel Felciano was playing Judas, he fell into the orchestra pit during his opening number. He talked about it on Seth's Chatterbox,(and even provided a reenaction with actual audio from that show) which was fantastic, cause I'd always wanted to hear more about that performance.

One I did witness was during Hairspray. It was John Pinette's first week on Broadway as Edna Turnblatt. During "You're Timeless To Me", John went "I can hear the bells!" Pause "Oh, wait that's the ice cream truck" The actor playing Mr Turnblatt cracked up, and John said: "Get me sooooome!" in the most hilarious whiny way. They BOTH lost it after that, and had to wait a few minutes before they got their act together, and finished the song.

I just saw Hairspray last weekend for like the 6th time and Shannon Durig(Tracy) forgot her lyrics right at the beginning of the show in Good Morning Baltimore. She was like " Oh Oh Oh I don't know da da doo da doo, when i hear the beat....it was funny to say the least!