Broadway Mistakes — Page 2

Well technically I saw the production in London where the mistake occured, but it was still funny. It was the night after opening night in London of WIW. During the graveyard scene in WIW, where Glyde (Oliver Darley) is lamenting the loss of his wife Laura, he is supposed to be singing to Mr. Farley (Edward Petherbridge). Well, Mr. Darley is singing away, but is singing to an empty wheelchair. Evidently, Mr. Petherbridge managed to miss his cue for the scene. So, while there were some lines for Farley in that section, Glyde was essentially singing to himself with no response from Farley. I was with a group of friends who also managed to get tickets opening night and so had already seen the show once. We began whispering to each other "Where's Farley?" Of course, the actors went on as if nothing had happened, so another friend who did not attend opening night never realized a big oopsie had just occured. At the end of the scene, the actor who was playing Farley's assitant/butler whatever, dutifully wheeled the chair off the stage. Rumor had it that Mr. Petherbridge missed his cue cause he fell asleep, but I don't know if I'd hold much truth to that. Still, I bet someone made sure he didn't miss another one.

I was watching one of the final performances of Crazy For You and the left side Lanks Hotel set piece refused to budge while the other set pieces moved. There was a deafening CRACK and a tech guy backstage started yelling STOP STOP!! They brought the curtain down for about 13 minutes and you could hear banging, scraping, shouting, and maybe even a little cussing! Finally, the curtain went up, the set was in place and the audience applauded. Unfortunately, because the set was where it wasn't supposed to be durring an ensemble members' exit, he ran into it,and gouged himself on a nail. He needed a tetanus shot and thankfully he was okay.

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oh my gosh, how horrible! Quite interesting...

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In a middle of a performance of "The Frogs," I forget what happened to cause this, but Nathan Lane momentarily stepped out of character and sarcastically said, "Ben Brantley should have seen *this* performance!" It brought the house down.

The last time I saw DRS (2/5) there was a little goof - nicely saved by Mr. Jbara. In the last bedroom scene with Christine and Freddy, you see Christine wearing a sheer purple negligee. In the next scene, you see Andree approaching Lawrence from stage right to tell him that Christine never got on the train. As he approached Jonathan, Greg saw that the purple negligee was laying on the right side of the stage. This wouldn't have been a major problem except for the fact that the next time you see Freddy, he's wearing that negligee! So Greg very smoothly continued talking to Lawrence while walking over to the negligee, rolling it up in a ball, and pitching it nicely into the wings. A little later - there it was, on the back of Mr. Butz.

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Why was she... lifting her skirt and saying ew?

dre...I saw that! It was my second time seeing the show and I think I was kind of in shock.

broadwaylover2: i know! my friend (who has seen it about 15 times) and i were in the front row and when that happened, i was looking down, embrassed, and she was looking up, embrassed. it was so sad.

mamie, you never told us that! cool! lol.

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I saw "Hairspray" I think 2 years ago when it came on tour in L.A. (or it might have been last year, I don't know), and whoever the Penny was totally forgot to say "PLEASE!" at the beginning of "Mama I'm A Big Girl Now" -- Amber and Tracy said it, and she came in halfway through the word and for like 1 second after, it was Penny going "eeeeze!" Lol, you had to be there.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in London -

how can a show with SO MUCH scenery not get stuck each time with SOMETHING!
(a very obvious spoiler ahead!)
when i saw it, there's the part in the end, where the childcatcher is surrounded by lots of kids and tied up lifted to the top of the theatre (i assume that's what supposed to happened- since it never did)- the kids took alot of time trying to hook him to the string that's supposed to lift him up, and when they didn't make it a stage hand appeared from stageleft and they all rolled him out of the stage.

(the spoiler was that the bad guy is caught-if you missed it)
it was all quite clean and quite and wasn't that obvious until Mr. Potts shoots to the theatre ceiling (where the childcatcher was apperently supposed to be) and the childcatcher's screams were heard while the thingies fell.

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Thetheaterkook- that is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw WIW on Broadway in Late December and their were two notable mistakes, one from the cast and one from the orchestra.
The one from the cast was near the end of the show, and had to do with the projections. When Glyde leaves after getting Mr. Fairfax to sign away Laura's estate Ron Bohmer exited right through a bookcase on the wall. I don't know whether he went to the wrong door or the projections were wrong, but it was really funny. The orchestral mistake was at the end of Everymore Without You, where as he holds his long last note, the french horn repeats the motif of the song in a dramatic fashiom (people who are familiar with the song know what I'm talking about) and this time the horn completely muffed it. It sounded terrible and ruined the entire moment of the song, but I just laughed.

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Lol, talk about a slip! Probably its because I am listening to Jane Eyre right now. I love that score!

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when i saw wicked in march of 05 (with idina and kristin), in the scene when elphaba slaps glinda in the face, the slap sound effect went on wayyy before idina actually went and slapped kristen. I'm talking a full second or two. They both kept a straight face until kristen said, "Ow". And then they just burst out laughing. I actually think the sound effect went off twice, come to think of it...