Funny bloopers from your own shows — Page 3

We just finished Grease at my high school a couple weeks ago. I was Vince Fontaine and the Teen Angel.

Of course like LizzyBaby213 the night the show was taped everything went wrong. To start off we had so many mic problems that night. We had a studio mic for the parts where I would do my radio business and the mic wouldn't come on until about halfway through my part.

Then during "Those Magic Changes" our Doody started with the 2nd verse and if you know the song, you know that it's the same exact melody as the 1st verse, so if he had just sang through the 2nd verse and then just sang the 1st verse next it would have looked normal...but no. He stops about three lines in, tries to adlib here and there and somehow manages to finish the song. That was the worst thing to happen that night.

Then right before I walked out to sing "Beauty School Dropout" I was coming down the steps from the dressing room and I tripped from the last step and twisted my ankle and fell into a tin trash can we used in the show causing this huge bang while Frenchy is wondering about what she's going to do with her life. I make it to my spot in the audience (where I started the song and walked up on stage joined by my backup dancers). Needless to say, my fall killed my nerves and I sang the hell out of that song that night.

Then during "You're the One that I Want" (which we added in as so many places do) our Danny picks up Sandy and spins her around and off goes her mic pack, flying across the stage. It was at the end of the song, so it was really easy to get it back to her, but still funny nonetheless.

There were more, but those were the biggest, and the most fun to laugh about.

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We finished up with Into the Woods in early April. Our Mysterious Man DISAPPEARED for one of his scenes. Basically, he wasn't there to go on for his "When is a white cow not a white cow?" scene with the Baker where he has to give him back the five gold pieces. So our Baker runs onstage with the bag of gold and goes, "Look what I found!" to the audience and runs back off.

Needless to say, our musical director was pretty damn pissed.

My middle school did Fiddler On The Roof back when I was in 7th grade and when the show ends all the villagers follow Tevye around in a circle then leave the stage to represent leaving town, well I was to go down stairs off the side of the stage and so Im walking and its dark and Im holding a crate. I tripped on a step and and the only thing you heard was my crate falling on the ground and me falling on top of it and it breaking. I fell and hurt my ankle, I was so scared I wouldnt be able to preform for the parents because this happened during the little kids show and they all laughed at me thinking it was part of the show. But my ankle healed.

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We did this short play called "Traveler's Latern" and I played an uncle of the main characters and so me and my wife were walking on and I took a step infront of her and my shoe went slam right on her foot and they had a kneel on them, dress shoes and I crushed her foot, she began screaming and yelling and going crazy on stage and the audience loved it because the two were always bickering anyway.

During a performance of Scapin, the character Sylvestre came on stage as a pirate, complete with an eye patch and a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. During a scene between Sylvestre and me, the parrot wouldn't stay standing on his shoulder. (The audience roars.) Sylvestre repeatedly tried to make it stand, but it kept flopping down. So, Sylvestre ripped the parrot from his shoulder and shoved it down the front of his pants. (The audience loses it and applauds.) Sylvestre reacts as if the parrot were causing... discomfort, so he takes it out of his pants and throws it behind him over his shoulder. An ensemble cast member, with quick reflexes, sees the parrot out of the corner of his eye and catches it and the parrot lands standing straight up in his hand as if it flew right to him. (The audience goes berserk.)

It took every ounce of energy in me to stay in character. I almost lost my mind and walked offstage in a fit of hysterical laughter. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen.

7th Grade production of Camelot. The scene where Lance and Guinevere are caught went horribly wrong. All of the soldiers were wating behind flats to spring out and the Lancelot says "I swear, we're completly alone." At that moment, one of the boys dropped his sword and ran into the flat make a huge boom and then a number of cursies that resounded throughout the theater. The two actors tried not to laugh for the entire scene.

I was Consuela, the blonde shark in a recent production of West Side Story. We were rehearsing the scene before America, that only the girls had blocked since the boys had done fight rehearsal. The script read.
Bernardo: Thank God you cange your hair
Pepe (in reference to my bleached head): Is that possible?
Consuela: In the USA, everything is real.
*later*
Anita: We are foreigners
Pepe and Consuela: Lice!
All 3: Cockroaches!
When we got to that point there was a silence, and I nudged the boy playing Pepe and he looked back blankly. I whispered "It's your line" "Really? Are you sure" he said. I nodded. With a confused look he wrapped his arms around me, played with my hair, and said what he thought was his next line. "LICE!"

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So I just Finished "Man of la Mancha" and i have a new blooper to add.

At the end of the show, Quixote dies, and the following dialog takes place

SANCHO: Aldonza-
ALDONZA: No! My name is Dulcinea!

it's the climax of the whole musical. but here's what happened Closing night...

SANCHO: Aldonza-
ALDONZA: No! My name is Aldonza!


AARRGGG!!!! and she could have fixed it to! my last show in high school, i'm playing my dream role as Don Quixote, and she has to screw it up!!!! oh well. the finale went well and there was still a standing-O, so it's all good.

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I was in a production of "The First Day: A Middle School Nightmare" (A modern-day version of Dantes Inferno taking place in a middle school,) at the Seattle Children's Theater. I played Virgil, the main character's poet guide through this hell, and during one scene, I was supposed to bring her her class list. During the second performance, I left it offstage. I said "I'll be right back," and ran offstage to get it. I slipped, and fell head-first into a corner of the table being used by "The Silver Chair," which was also being performed that night. I got up, got the class list and ran back onstage to finish the scene. During the rest of the scene, I felt a warm drop sliding down the side of my face. "Please let that be sweat," I thought. I got offstage and discovered that it was blood. I had been bleeding quite noticably onstage. I still have the scar next to my eye.

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When I was in a production of Annie, in the final scene, I was one of the orphans who was supposed to come in, greet Annie, and then go running towards the Christmas tree. Well, one of the servants was standing between me and the tree so I tried to run around him. Of course, I didn't realize how slippery my shoes were so I slipped and landed on the stage! Oops.

Then one time, I was in this play where a bunch of students are taking a test, but weird things start happening to one student. By the end, she's been in a trial and scentenced to death. I sat right in front of her so I had to turn around and put the electrocution hat on her. I then pull out a battery but when I stuck the plug in, the bell was supposed to go off. One night, I didn't and we all sat there absolutely frozen for what felt like about half a minute, though I'm pretty sure it wasn't that long. Anyways, someone off stage finally went "RING!" but I was pretty scarred for a few seconds...

Peter Pan flying from the balcony on a zipline and smashing into a wall of the darling house

In high school and college, I was witness to many hysterical moments involving off-stage mikes accidentally being left on.

All I have to say is why is it that whenever situations like that occur, the actor sporting the mike in question is always saying something inappropriate?

In my high school's version of Grease! During YTOTiW (yea, we added it) Danny Zuko's mic pack fell and he trailed it behind him the entire time. Also, in that same scene, the table fell over for no good reason. We all ignored it except for one idiot girl.

The next year, our Sky missed an entrance and left Sarah, Arvide, and I (Cartwright) stranded.

The first night, our tree fell in the Havannah scene right before If I Were A Bell. Sky stopped, gave the audience a 1 second hang gesture and then flexed his (nonexistant) muscles and lifted the tree back. Sarah just played it off as a giddy drunk.

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last summer i did the Mystery of Edwin Drood...i was in the dream sequence ballet and there was a part where one dancer did a hand stand and was supported by the other girl, who at the time was holding in some gas and nearly dropped the girl in the handstand on her face if i didn't catch her in time....

same girl different day, during one of the narrators rants to the audience while all of us characters are sitting onstage, she rips one and everyone onstage is trying the hardest not to break while the first couple or so rows of the audience heard it, so they're laughing....and not only was it funny that she farted, but she had the guiltiest expression on her face...it was all rather hilarious and we did a poor job of not breaking

In the version of The Pied Piper I just finished doing, the town council president Saurkraut has to make the Mayor sign a proclaimation - it's one of the most crucial scenes in the show.

That damn proclaimation scene was the bane of my existence.

On opening night, we completely skipped that set of lines - us town council folk became an angry mob about two pages two early and chased the Mayor off before Saurkraut could even deliver his stirring speech.

Also, Saurkraut had a line about how "it's time to strike a blow for freedom!" Somehow one night, it came out "Citizens! It's time to blow for freedom!"

And on our closing performance, Saurkraut lost the proclaimation prop and had to do the entire scene without it. It went a bit like this:

Saurkraut: And the long and short of it is, either sign this proclaimation or forthwith- um...
Mayor: What proclaimation?
Saurkraut: Well, I wrote a proclaimation...
Town Crier: Oh! Ooh! I memorized it!
Saurkraut: Oh... would you like to say it then?
Crier: Sure... The Mayor of Hamelin offers a reward of one thousand guilders to whoever can rid the town of this plague of rats that now infest our city.
Saurkraut: So.. um... if I had it, would you sign it?