Broadway bloopers

Have you ever been to a show where you noticed a blooper, if so tell us about it!

When i saw 13 a football rolled of the stage and fell onto my friends lap. We were in the front row.

Three come to mind. My earliest was in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with the original Broadway cast. The show had been playing a while already, but when it began and Carlyn Glynn (?) began singing Little Bity Pissant Country- she went up on her lines. She stopped the song explaining in her country twang that she forgot the words, and began all over again.

In Starlight Express, the second act stopped cold when the bridge began to fail. It was a very late preview, and when the lights came up, the ccast was evacuated one by one from the upper reaches of the set (to much applause no less). They finished the show skating in one big circle on the stage floor.

A late preview of Gray Gardens had the staircase enter the back wall after the action had begun and cast onstage-upstaging whatever was happening.

I personally believe there has never been a show where everything went perfectly. I always recall those special events when things go a bit mad!

Updated On: 10/4/10 at 08:02 PM

LizzieCurry, I am sure this post is in no way an offense to you.

Anyway, Hmm.. I have only witnessed little issues. One of the vocalist during Donkey Pot Pie had a mic issues. It was on and off and took a while to return.

Someones cellphone made those obnoxious horrible sound interference noises during the lines "Maybe this is the kind of girl Warner wants..."

At Next to Normal, two characters were onstage alone, and the mics of the offstage cast were on. It was distracting, and lasted a while. It sounded like they were making fun of what was going on stage.

Is Billy Elliot supposed to fall down while tap dancing during the big dancing clothes production number? He carried it off well and laughed with his friend.

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You should apologize again.

When I saw Promises, Promises, Katie's skirt got caught under her heel during the dance break on the bar. I was the move where she is in a back bend-type thing where Sean is behind her hold her hands. She tried to kick the edge of the skirt off her heel but couldn't, and they missed half of the dance moves. Neither Sean, Katie, nor the audience could stop cracking up, and Sean ended up having to squat and lower her down to sit on the bar so they could finish the scene.

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during The Guilty Ones in Spring Awakening Wendla's microphone rolled infront of the moving platform so when it continued to move forward the mic rolled down the steps

When I saw legally blonde, Laura Bell Bundy's wig flew off during the Bend and Snap. She covered it so well by picking the wig up, sitting down in the salon chair, and saying "Paulette will you fix my hair?" Then she stood up and said "thank you for coming to Legally Bald" and continued into the song.

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During previews of the original Night Music, many of the sliding panels would often become stuck. The company were accustomed to a good pun and would sing, to the tune of the Night Waltz, "The screens won't move, they keep coming out of their groove'

When I saw Tommy in Pittsburgh, during the big Dr's scene with young Tommy, some scientists/doctors rolled a cart with a bunch of test tubes, beakers, etc on and when they stopped one or two beakers fell off and broke.

It was really funny to watch a stage hand walk on stage with a broom/dust pan, and disappear behind one of the doors that was constantly moving on/off stage.

It was all pretty slick and I'm surprised I caught it. I brought it up to Alice at the stage door and she seemed surprised that I caught it.

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In the video "Putting It Together", Carol Burnett's skirt falls down. She, and her castmates, had a big laugh about it.

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I remember that. Another night during MatM, Ms d'Amboise's skirt began to slip. When it got precarious, she ripped it off and flung it into the wings, continuing the dance without missing a beat. She made it look as though it was choreographed.

When I saw Wicked...about 8 months after opening, during one of the climatic scenes towards the end, Leo Norbert Butz slipped and Cheno and Idna laughed through the rest of the scene. As they kept giggeling the audinece noticed more and more causing more laughter.