Broadway Show Bloopers — Page 3

The first night of the national tour of Will Rodgers Follies in Dallas - one of the dogs from the previous dog show scene got loose and scuttled across the stage in the middle of the next scene. The actresses on stage started chuckling and couldn't stop! Then audience started laughing and this went on for about 10 minutes! Then, after the laughter subsided, the actresses chuckled throughout the scene. They didn't know what to say or do. It was silly.

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David, David, David, you are a disgrace to us all.

If you want utterly hilarious Broadway bloopers straight from the actors themselves, you absolutely have to read Making It on Broadway! I was in Starbucks reading it and could not keep myself from laughing out loud...I got some very strange looks.

Now that I look back...it really does lol. I had to, though, it's my new favorite book! :)

At Les Miz in Las Vegas a few years ago, Javert's mic started going out right before the scene preceding "Stars." He had to run off stage, change, and get a new mic. Was interesting to watch Javert start to disrobe during Thénardier's "It was me who told you so..."

He didn't come back onstage on time, and the orchestra did a nice "Theme and Variations on Stars" which would put ALW's "Variations" to shame. When Javert came back, he got a nice round of applause.

Apparently the mics were a mess for that whole run; he had had to sing "Javert's Suicide" unmiked on opening night.

I'm reading Making It On Broadway as we speak... It's fast-reading and very enlightening. Sometimes "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" is not at all what its cracked up to be. The blooper chapter was very funny. I'll second that 'plug.'

i need to get that book now. these are great.

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When I saw Aida, there were these two flies flying around in the spotlights all through the second act. Anytime someone would stand still, the fly would land on their head. During "A Step too Far", one of the flies landed on Adam Pascal's head AT LEAST three times. He tried very hard to stay in character, but eventually cracked up. They were also circling Saycon's head all through "Easy as Life" and I seriously thought one was going to fly in her mouth.

Phantom:
Thomas James O'Leary's wig caught on fire during the final lair scene.

RENT:
An actress that plays Mimi banged her head on a bar really hard and she had to be replaced that night.

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Yes! I didn't have the article with me so I was going by memory... but now I recognize the name. I felt bad just reading about it.Getting to replace a lead... only to fall down the orchestra pit. Poor guy.

How many Mimi injuries have there been? I've never heard of any, but I'm not surprised!

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Well, these arn't really bloopers, but when I saw WICKED, I was sitting in my seat, waiting for the show to start, and I could hear Jennifer Laura Thompson warming up for some odd reason. Then, one of ensemble members came out on the top of the staircase-thingy and was just kind of standing there, looking over the railing at the audience before the show even started! So I waved at him, and he smailed at me.

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This is not mine really, but there's been a couple of shows of WICKED with the bed not coming on stage during popular. Once it didn't come on and Kristin started ad-libbing, looking at Idina 'Are you doing magic again?? Well stop it!'

I saw THE PHANTOM OF... about a month ago and the boat was broken during ACT II, so after 'The Point of no return' when Phantom and Christine return to Phantom's lair they had to walk across the lake. Someone behind me muttered 'This thing just turned into Jesus Christ Superstar - he's walking on water!!' In the final scene the boat was working fine!

In London I saw A.Lloyd Webber's WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND and in the final scene, which takes place in a burnt down barn the burnt barn wall set piece didn't come all the way down, instead it was hanging in the air half way down. The actors just waited a little while for it to come down and then went on with the scene.

In London's CHICAGO: during the court room scene where one of ensemble plays the jury, this guy was doing the drunk guy part of the jury and he 'emptied' the flask and was supposed to pass out. Just before he passed out he belched really loudly and half of the ensemble standing behind him cracked up.

In London's CHICAGO, Clark Peters was playing Billy Flynn and during his court room speech someone in the audience sneezed so that everyone could hear it, and Peters stood still for a sec, looked the sneezer and with a deadpan look on his face said 'Bless you, honey!'