Funniest mishap you have seen?- Page 2

[wexy]

Posted: 10/20/11 at 3:24pm

1776 there was some dance #. Pat Hingle was Ben Franklin .
Lauren Ward ( I looked it up on ibdb) is Martha Jefferson
and Hingle kept stepping on her dress. She poked and you can her say "You're stepping on my dress." Hingle moved a step or two over.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 10/20/11 at 9:23pm

While we're on the subject of authentic mishaps I'd like to express that there is nothing that turns my stomach more than a staged "mishap". Hello Dolly and Will Rogers Follies come to mind. Shameless.

Care to elaborate?

[jawjuhh]

Posted: 10/20/11 at 11:33pm

In the final number of Catch Me If You Can, Strange But True, there was a moment where Norbert Leo Butz enthusiastically took his belt off and smacked Aaron Tveit with the metal end by accident. Huuuge red mark but they kept going and laughing during the talking parts, making jokes about it, "he is going to kill me after this is over" etc etc.

[carolinaguy]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 8:56am

Saw "Wicked" once when the bubble caught in Glinda's wig as it was going back into the flies. It pulled her a few feet upstage before it stopped and one of the Ozians disentangled her. She gave the bubble a devastating look, then continued. Big laugh.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 10:27am

During the Addam's Family, during the scene where Nathan Lane is whipping the Octopus, the whip snapped back and hit him in the face. He couldn't stop laughing along with the rest of the cast. He tried to get back into character at least 5 times and he couldn't so he said "F*CK it" and the curtain came down. Later Jackie H. told Nathan he had lips like Angelina Jolie during Full Disclosure

[jetts7]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 10:45am

^ That is hilarious!

[steven22]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 11:26am

There used to be a video on youtube from one of the first few RENT tours. Joshua Kobak was playing Mark at the time and the projector in the one of the last few scenes fell as he was moving it. You could hear the audience laugh.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 11:30am

Once, during Xanadu Cheyenne's mic went out while he was singing "The Fall" and almost immediately Mary Testa walked straight across the stage carrying a hand mic, handed it to him, nodded, and hussled off the other side. It was amusing, purely for the way Mary walked.

[morosco]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 12:14pm

While we're on the subject of authentic mishaps I'd like to express that there is nothing that turns my stomach more than a staged "mishap". Hello Dolly and Will Rogers Follies come to mind. Shameless.

Care to elaborate?

I'm talking about those seemingly real mishaps that are pre-rehearsed and happen at every performance. Hello Dolly had Dolly and Horace unable to control their laughter in the hat shop. Will Rogers Follies had one of the dogs from the dog act get "loose" later in the show and run across the stage "interrupting" a scene.

[Christoph]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 1:28pm

I have seen a few, but usually they are not particularly funny.

Probably the funniest and strangest was in a touring company of Chicago. During some of the dialogue that leads into Roxie Hart, Charlotte d'Amboise farted. The incredible part was that I don't think anyone realized what it was and thought it was a sound glitch. Unfortunately, d'Amboise decided to cover for it by awkwardly working it into the show, which only made people realize exactly what just happened? People who were initially caught up in the show were suddenly turning to each other and going "Wait, was that a fart? Did she just fart?" Funny, but I felt a bit embarrassed for her. She should have just carried on like nothing had happened and I don't think anyone would have known any better.

[Matt3358]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 1:29pm

During a performance of In The Heights, when Usnavi pantsed the guy hitting on Vanessa, too many layers came off.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 1:42pm

Hairspray had a "staged misshap" during "Timeless to Me." I saw the show many, many times over the years and whoever was playing Edna and Wilbur alwqays managed to "break" during the final verse. Granted the ad-libs and jokes were always a tad different, the "breaking" still managed to happen every time.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 4:06pm

This didn't happen during the show but at curtain call. At Phantom Geoff Packard(who was playing Raoul at the time) ran out for his bow and and completely wiped out. When he got up he made the safe sign as they do in baseball.

This past Sunday afternoon at Wicked 2NT Christine Dwyer slipped on her dress at the curtain call and came dangerously close to falling into the pit while she had a grip on Tiffany Haas' hand. The look on her face was priceless.

I didn't see this but heard about it. Katie Rose Clarke losing her crown and wig after getting out of the bubble and proceeding to put it on backwards while saying her lines while the cast lost it.

[blacktie]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 4:25pm

I only saw the revival of La Cage Aux Folles once so I'm not sure if it's in the show or staged or whatever. But there was a moment when Zaza was on stage alone and one of the musician's (perhaps a saxophonist?) played a note or two that interrupted Douglas as he was about to deliver a line. Zaza/Douglas looked up and said "we have a new musician in the house tonight" and laughed it off.

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 4:37pm

The current production of Follies has a few staged mishaps during "Who's That Woman," which I think is a good thing because it wouldn't make sense for them all to do it perfectly after 30 years. I loved their little mistakes and adlibs, scripted or not. Particularly Jan Maxwell's.

[greensgreens]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 4:39pm

The La Cage "new musician" bit happens at every performance. It seems like it's written into the show (is it or is that just direction?), although every actor I have seen do Albin has made it seem fresh (IMHO).

[blacktie]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 4:45pm

The La Cage "new musician" bit happens at every performance. It seems like it's written into the show (is it or is that just direction?), although every actor I have seen do Albin has made it seem fresh (IMHO).

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Oh ok...it would have been interesting to see it happen during the first preview and opening night lol. And yes...it being written into the show makes sense given the meta-musical construct.

[justoldbill]

Posted: 10/21/11 at 10:41pm

Not really a mishap, but it could have been. On the closing night of FOLLIES at the Winter Garden in 1972, the audience was in constant tumult to the point where the people on stage often could not hear the orchestra. A few mis-cues were the result. At the end of "Lucy And Jessie", Alexis Smith was posed in triumph as the crowd roared. Of course, she couldn't hear the orchestra or vocal intro to "Live, Laugh, Love" playing, so suddenly John McMartin's cane appeared from behind the drop and gently tapped her on her calf. Not missing a beat, she strutted off. I don't know why, but that little tap of the cane remains one of my most vivid memories of that evening.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 10/23/11 at 7:54pm

"I didn't see this but heard about it. Katie Rose Clarke losing her crown and wig after getting out of the bubble and proceeding to put it on backwards while saying her lines while the cast lost it."

I know Im quoting myself here but Katie Rose actually told this story last night at a cabaret she was in. So hilarious to hear her talk about it.

[egghumor]

Posted: 10/23/11 at 11:26pm

The entire second act of SLEIGHT OF HAND.

[pinoyidol2006]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 1:41am

Drowsy Chaperone. When the gangsters were threatening Feldzieg with the rolling pin, one of the gangsters tossed the pin, but the other one didn't catch it. The pin didn't roll of too far to disrupt the sequence though.

[MusicalJunkie2]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 7:00am

Wicked in London. One of the "dolls" (you know, big, round in emerald city) fell down and could not get up! Idina laugh so hard that she stopped the show and sat down and just laughed.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 10/24/11 at 4:52pm

"Wicked in London. One of the "dolls" (you know, big, round in emerald city) fell down and could not get up! Idina laugh so hard that she stopped the show and sat down and just laughed."

They are called Flatheads. That was Cassidy Janson that that happened to. She was Idina's understudy at the time.

[MusicalJunkie2]

Posted: 10/25/11 at 4:51am

@DefyGravity777
It was Idina. It was october 30th 2006, I was there and there is even a recording of it.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 10/26/11 at 5:13pm

"It was Idina. It was october 30th 2006, I was there and there is even a recording of it."

Yes I know. I was saying that it was CJ who was the flathead that fell over. She was Idina's understudy.