LB tonight

[classylassy]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 11:25pm

Tonight at Legally Blonde there was an automation malfunction right before "Bend & Snap"... they brought down the show curtain, brought the house lights up, made an announcement, yada yada.....the show started again about 10 minutes later but it made me think that I read about the show stopping at Legally Blonde all the time...... what is up with that?

[carymetorent2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 2:23am

Where did you read about the show stopping all the time? This is the first I've heard of it happening in a long while.

[TapTapTapioca]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 3:12am

The show stops more than other Broadway shows that are much much much more technical. Mary Poppins has only stopped once or twice and that show is GIANT.

[dramarama2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 6:30am

Legally Blonde has stopped twice in the past, both of those times in the SF try-out. One of the times was at one of the earlier previews in "OMG" because the front of Delta Nu set piece didn't fly off the stage as it was supposed to. Another time was right before the bend and snap scene as they had a malfunction when some of the set pieces used in "Take It Like A Man" didn't come off the stage as they were supposed to, so the sets for "Bend n Snap" didn't come on. Maybe this is the same sorta thing. This is the first time i've heard about a malfunction happening on broadway. I have however heard that a show did not start for 20 minutes after it was supposed to as they were having problems with the sound system.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 8:36am

The only time they've stopped the show on Broadway I think is when one of Elle's Dorm Room set pieces was going off and bumped into on of the side panels. If I remember correctly, somebody posted that Laura Bell Bundy stood to the side trying to adlib something to make up for it, but then she was called off the stage just in case something would end up falling. They then brought the "Elle's necklace" scrim down.

Correct? I forget who posted about it, but I know somebody did.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 11:19am

I was there last night, too. Orfeh and Laura did ad lib, e.g. "I can see dead people," while looking down the trap. Laura kept on laughing, then they were called to the wings. The "show curtain" was brought down later on.

It's amazing to see how technical this Broadway show is. Look for the "The Show Behind the Show," 43 days to opening, on Broadway.com's Going Blonde, http://www.broadway.com/gen/general.aspx?ci=540070.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:01pm

TWSFan4Ever, I was there during that. They stopped the show for about 5 to 10 minutes.

[HumATune]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:37pm

Legally Blonde also stopped once in San Francisco during "Omigod You Guys" when the elevator that brings Elle up for her first entrance malfunctioned.

What is it with this show? Jump ropes breaking, shoes flying into the audience, set pieces getting stuck, wigs falling off?

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:48pm

Show stop all the time. Now that we have nifty things like these message boards, we all hear about them more. But they have been happening forever. Its live theatre! Its bound to happen!

[HumATune]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 1:04pm

Okay!

[TapTapTapioca]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 4:43pm

It stopped once because the table never cam up in "Whipped Into Shape"

[mikem]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 5:27pm

There were at least three technical problems during the show -- the trio not coming up before Bend and Snap, LBB's mike went out at one point and she repeated a line, and the parents didn't come out in the golf cart the second time. There must have been gremlins backstage! I enjoyed the show, but the audience was kind of dead -- very little audience reaction to anything (except for the technical malfunctions!).

Was the "I see dead people" line an adlib? She said it again after the show re-started, so I thought it was a regular line.

[BroadwayDreams2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 6:58pm

LB stopped once when I was there. During 'What You Want' the sorority house stairs didn't go off in time blocking the trap door from coming up with the desk and the books and Kate. They stopped for like a minute, not terrible at all. Things happen, atleast no one's ever gotten hurt by any of it.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 7:54pm

mikem, yes, "I see dead people" is a line Paulette always says when Margot, Serena and Pilar come up (because remember, they're in Elle's head at that point, and now Paulette can see them.)

It seems though that since they never came up, she just looked down through where the lift (with the trio) is supposed to come up and said "I see dead people".

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 8:48pm

Wasn't there a night in which the courtroom scenery didn't come on the stage or something like that? I remember reading about it on this message board.

[carymetorent2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 9:25pm

Actually, Orfeh adlibbed and said "I hear dead people" last night because she couldn't see them.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 9:33pm

Yes, that was the ad lib, as she tried to check out what happened down there.
Updated On: 8/3/07 at 09:33 PM

[mikem]

Posted: 8/7/07 at 6:13pm

I just thought of something else that happened that same night -- in the opening number, one of the sorority sisters bobbled (may have even dropped -- I can't remember) their cell phone right at the same time that the transformation happened with the descending down the fireman's pole, so I missed the transformation because of the distraction (or at least I assume that the bobbling doesn't usually happen -- is that right?)