Funny/Horrible Mistakes on Live Performances! — Page 3

I didn't see this mistake posted so I thought I'd tell:

2004 Rent on Broadway, Matt (Caplan) was coming out with the camera on the stand for Finale A...singing his song...and the camera fell off the stand and into the rush seats (if you've not rushed on broadway...it didn't hit anyone there's like a mile between the stage and the first row.) And matt just started cracking up and whoever it fell closest too wasn't moving to give it to him, so Matt just leaned over and said something to the tune of "You can just give that here."

In CHICAGO in London in the courtroom scene where this one enseble man is playing the whole jury by himself, this actor/dancer guy was doing the part of the drunk jury member. He took a sip from the flask and was supposed to pass out. Instead just before he passed out he let out this loud belch and then passed out. The cast behind him (standing in a row) cracked up. So did the audience.

In London's CHICAGO during Billy Flynn's big courtroom speech someone in the audience sneezed loudly and it made Clark Peters to lose it. He tried not to laugh, and managed to look at the sneezer (sitting in one of the boxes) and he just said "Bless YOU darling!"

Les Miserable, Broadway: Javert not coming out for "One Day More" because he was locked in the bathroom. I used to work there, that's how I know.

Forum: One of the doors falling off its hinges during the chase sequence.

Jerry Zaks making a surprise visit as a Eunich (sp?) on stage during Whoopi's last performance of Forum

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I read this one in a book:

In Les Miz, Colm Wilkenson (Valjean) missed his entrance for the hospital scene. I guess the orchestra and Patti LuPone (Fantine) had to vamp for 10 minutes until they decided to go ahead with the rest of the scene - without Valjean! She ended up singing "Come to Me" alone!

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"In Les Miz, Colm Wilkenson (Valjean) missed his entrance for the hospital scene. I guess the orchestra and Patti LuPone (Fantine) had to vamp for 10 minutes until they decided to go ahead with the rest of the scene - without Valjean! She ended up singing "Come to Me" alone!"

This one cracked me up, although I believe it was Randy Graff playing Fantine, not Patti. Colm Wilkinson missed his cue because he, Terrence Mann, and Leo Burmester were too busy talking about Irish whiskey!

Oh heres a horrible one though (I forgot)

During a production of sweeney I was in the knife (first performance) was not Dulled enough and he cut 3 kids (not VERY deeply) but they were bleeding but since sweeney like never gets off stage no one could tell him....ouch!

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Dotmarie-

I stand corrected! I loved that book. Is that a Llama in your signature? Are you a Josh Groban fan?

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" In Rent, during "Happy New Year", Jeremy and Krystal were on stage, looking at each other. Jeremy took a gulp of "wine" from the bottle, and Krystal moved away from Jeremy, to notice that Jeremy's wallet chain had snagged on her fishnet tights. Jeremy tried to get himself free, but he was laughing and water spurted out of his mouth. Poor Krystal, I think she got wet. Jeremy was able to get free after a few seconds.

It was hilarious. This happened sorta in the background, so if I wasn't as enamored with Jeremy as I was, I probably would have missed it..."


lol.

This one cracked me up, although I believe it was Randy Graff playing Fantine, not Patti. Colm Wilkinson missed his cue because he, Terrence Mann, and Leo Burmester were too busy talking about Irish whiskey!

Don't forget the fact that Colm Wilkinson then realized he was supposed to be onstage, and his mic was on. As he was struggling to get his costume pants on, he kept yelling "f*ck, oh F*CK!" and the audience could hear it.

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On opening night of the Kennedy Center Sweeney Todd with Brian Stokes Mitchell, the understudy Mrs. Lovett forgot a line during "A Little Priest" -- after Sweeney says "I prefer general", she completely forgot "With or without his privates?", and of course 90% of the audience knew the show by heart and knew she'd dropped the line. She ad-libbed something, though, the conductor kept the orchestra vamping, and she and Stokes went through to the next chorus -- but THEN they went back to the earlier point, ran the lines again only marginally in character, and this time Mrs. Lovett nailed the "With or without his privates?", at which point the audience exploded into applause and Stokes started laughing so hard that he fell off the stool he was sitting on. One of the funniest moments I've ever seen in performance.

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I saw the Les Mis tour last year in Detroit and it was the Winter and almost everyone in the theater had colds. During Fantine's death, it was silent in the theater, and all of the sudden, the entire audience started sneezing and coughing at once. This was SOO loud that Fantine (Tonya Dixon) started cracking up while she was dying/dead. It was hilarious.

definitley on idina's "last day" when JLT couldn't get the flower in shosh's hair. she literally had to straddle her and finally ended up pinning it to her shirt! JLT was HYSTERICAL!! in the next seen, shosh had tried to fix the flower and it fell out - she actually had to turn around away from the audience because she started laughing!

When I saw The Boy From Oz, Hugh Jackman's pants zipper completely broke. It was during one of his (many) ad-libbing scenes when he interacted with the crowd. There was this hysterical middle-aged woman in one of the boxes who kept cat-calling him. He unzipped his pants and pretended to pull them down, but when he tried to zip them back up, the zipper broke in half. He had to bring the costumer out on stage to safety-pin them together. The costumer was a guy, so, in character, Hugh had an ad-libbing field day!

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