Funny bloopers from your own shows — Page 5

I did a production of Midsummer Night's Dream where Bottom missed his final entrance with the mechanicals, once he comes back and announces he'll do the play within the play. First, the actor with the cue repeated his line after ten seconds or so of silence. Then after our concern subsided, we started looking scared and dumb. Then Peter Quince started yelling 'BOTTOM!' in this ridiculous falsetto which caused me to lose it completely -- I'm turned full back to the audience stuffing my hand in my mouth, making it look like a nervous breakdown and supporting Snug, who's lost it thirty seconds previous. When he finally entered, he got huge applause, and the happiness we were supposed to feign at his return was actually realistic. Then I punched him backstage. It was relieving.

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Updated On: 5/14/07 at 10:42 PM

Not really funny, more scary, but during one performance of Robin Hood last year at my middle school the girl playing Lady Merle(Maid Marian's physco guardian) totally forgot what she was saying and in the middle of her line she just said "Um...or something" and mumbled. Everyone on stage was terrified. Also during that same performance, I was Maid Marian and my arms were supposed to be tied behind my back and Robin was supposed to come in and save me. But the backstage people threw away my rope for some reason right, and I didn't know this until I had to go on, so I had to use a scarf that fell off before Robin saved me. The audience was giggling and could totally tell I wasn't really tied up.

^ LOL!

I wish I had more funny moments but I don't

When I was in Beauty And The Beast I had my pants safety pinned so they would stay up, and the second I get on stage to dance for "Gaston" the pin fell out! I was just about loosing my pants the entire time.

I was Jacob in Joseph... this summer and my mic pack fell off as I sang my ONLY SOLO. It was underneath my costume, hooked into my underwear and the staging made it impossible for me to pick it up after it fell to the stage, so I had it dragging behind me, coming out of my robe for a while!

What is it with me and pants?!

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We did Noises Off in high school and had more casting nightmares than you can imagine, but the most notable one was that our Garry decided three days before opening that he didn't want to be in the show any more and quit. At the last minute, our Dottie got her boyfriend to join the cast. He was from a different school, but we were desperate. He stayed home from school for three days to learn blocking and lines and when we opened, he was good to go. For the first week and a half, however, when act 2 rolled around, someone would sit behind the set and hand him a script for when he had to shout the lines from backstage so that all the blocking up front went off without a hitch, since that whole act is so dependent upon the lines being perfect. One day he decided he was good and didn't want the script. . . . he ended up skipping three pages of dialogue. It completely threw off the blocking, we were running around the stage like crazy people and we ended up doing the "axe bit" three times. It was horribly frightening, but afterwards, incredibly hilarious.

One other casting nightmare we had was when our Selden decided he didn't want to do the play anymore one night before the show started. (like, thirty minutes before) Our director (aka the drama teacher) was so mad and he decided he'd play the role, so he got in the thief costume and is running around backstage, completely furious. Then his wife tells him that he needs to be in the audience and that she'll go on, so she grabs a similar costume and puts it on and she's going to play the role and they're having a mild argument about who should do the role. All of a sudden, two of our cast members come back with the original Selden, whom they've convinced to stop being difficult and just do the play. He's also in costume. So, it's two minutes to curtain and we've got three Selden's and no one knows what the heck is going on.

Sigh. . . . with all of the drama and craziness, that was probably the most fun I ever had doing a show in high school.

My school does these short plays with this thing called The 24 Hour Theater project. 3 or 4 groups of writers stay up from 7pm to 7am friday night, write a play, come in the next morning, and we learn our parts and tech it and put it on at 7 that night.

Anyway, these plays are always hilarious and everyone gets a big kick out of them. But this year, this boy and girl had to lean in for a kiss at the closing scene, and then the lights were supposed to go out before they actually did. So, come 7pm we perform it, blah blah and at the end when the lights are supposed to go off, they don't. So, someone in the tech booth, while they're trying to figure out the problem, went on the mic (the "God" mic we call it) and said, "Awkwarddddd" and then the lights went out. It was the funniest thing ever.

I have two, from Little Women - I was Beth.

-At the dress rehearsal, Meg was taking a bit long getting into costume for a scene where she's pregnant, and the curtain rose without her ready to enter. They said the few lines in the "Off to Massachusetts Reprise" Scene, until Meg is supposed to walk Beth in, and after waiting a few moments, our Jo promptly shouts: "COME ON, PREGGERS!"
-At the real show, during that scene and "Some Things Are Meant to Be," my costumes were falling off. Two-year-old Pins = NOT SECURE. (:

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-in Honk! I completely zoned out on stage and missed a line! I also knocked down someone else egg when we all hatched [we were ducklings, and our "eggs" were wooden and flapped down, it's hard to explain haha]
-in Cinderella I was so little and I just rolled around on stage during my solo [I was a made up pumpkin part haha]
-in Snow White our Snow White forgot a line, and I was a dwarf and I just randomly said a line and she remembered it we were like 7-9 though
-in Aladdin our Genie got a little too into the magic carpet scene and knocked over every prop on the right side of the stage!
- in High School Musical I was one of the bad auditioners, and we kinda did an A Chorus Line style thing and we held up headshots, and I held up mine upside-down it kinda worked though :p

I just finished playing the Genie in a production of Aladdin. My first entrance was done Flashdance style, in which I did the movie choreography to "Maniac" (Which I actually knew prior to the show, so there weren't really any problems there). Anyway, at the end of the song I'm lying back on a chair and my "Genie Assistants/Vegas Showgirls" (Needless to say, this was not the Disney version.) pour glitter on me to simulate the water scene. Opening night was the first night that we had used the glitter - I had actually thought we weren't going to be using anything as we had just faked it in rehearsal - and the showgirls didn't know how much to use, so they just poured it out of the craft-store jar it came in.

That f'ing glitter went EVERYWHERE. In my mouth, in my ears, down my top (nothing more fun than trying to get glitter out of your cleavage!), literally everywhere you can possibly imagine. Anyway, I have a line right after this and am spluttering and trying to keep from swallowing said glitter, and finally just end up grabbing a handful from the chair, throwing it at Aladdin, and going "Ta-dah! I'm the Genie of the Lamp!"

Not really a blooper as much as just an experience I would prefer to never repeat, but whatever.

I was in a community production of Thoroughly Modern Millie about a year and a half ago which in the 21 show run had so many things happen that I can't even remember them all so here are a few I was on stage for.

1. During the scene of Muzzy's party in Act 1, Everyone on stage is dancing and Millie is supposed to (pretend to) kick the tray the maid is holding of champagne glasses and the "champagne" is supposed to spill on Dorothy Parker's dress. Well, this night, our Millie put a little too much force into her fake kick and actually DID kick the tray sending the water in the glasses flying straight up into the air and drenching the entire cast onstage.

2. In the same scene towards the end of the run, the glue that held the glasses to the tray must have gotten too worn down because when Millie kicked the tray (not sure if she accidentally kicked it again or not), the glasses flew off the tray, past Dorothy Parker and into the wings.