Mistakes in Performances

-- everything Toni Braxton did on stage during "Beauty and teh Beast"

-- according to the lovely CJR, everything La Train Wreck did on stage during Chicago.

mine i guess was when i say Joseph with Donny Osmond and when the song "close every door to me" he like just stopped i think cuz he ran out of air, had to stop the orchestra, and had some1 offstage to get him a drink of water. it wasnt bad it was more funny!!!

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Hassellhoff in Jekyll & Hyde

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When I was is High School, I played Oliver Twist in Oliver! The guy playing the doctor one night said "SHE's doing much better, sir." instead of "HE". I mean, it was pretty obvious that I was a girl playing a boy, but it was just bad.

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Matthew Broderick getting totally lost in "That Face" and begging the orchestra to stop. He was shown the music to indicate where to restart, but he can't read music. Eventually, he figured out where to restart. Very embarrassing, but some in the audience thought it was part of the show.

LOL Agreed, Taylor Dayne as Amneris. Oy!

When we talk mistakes, are we talking things that happen or mistakes people make? I've never seend anyone make a mistake regarding lines or actions, but I caught a few bloopers the first time I saw Aida.

1. During the scene where Radames takes off Aida's hand shackles, one had fallen off already.

2. While Amneris sang "I Know the Truth" her wedding dress refused to zipper down, (the part where the handmaidens sew her into her dress), and poor Idina was being yanked on by the handmaiden. She kept singing, though, as though it was perfectly natural to be jerked downwards.

A dear friend told me of a production of MAME he saw at a stock house (Beef & Boards maybe?) and the entire production was canned...meaning the orchestra was on a recorded track. Anyway, out came Mame, bugle and all and started 'It's Today' and then...well...here's how it went.

Get the ice out.
Get the ice out.
Get the ice out.
GET OUT THE ICE!!!!!!!

It still reduces me to giggles.

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Her rendition of "Some People" was ridiculous. She mangled those lyrics. It was shocking.

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Updated On: 10/8/03 at 03:59 PM

um nothing totally major


1) When I saw 42nd st. one of the dancers fell up the stairs in the last number. I thought that was awesome because I have fallen on staged during a show a few time. But ya just get up and keep going.

2) I saw Annie get your gun when Reba was in it and I saw the under study for frank butler and he was also the guy who tells the story (buffalo bill maybe) and there was a part where questioned Annie and he asked a question first and he asked bill's question instead of Franks and you could tall because the next question was the same one but out of bill's mouth.

3) When I saw grease like 4 years ago at one point Danny smoked a cigarette but he pulled it out of his pants put it in his mouth and stared smoking it have never light it yet it was smoking?

4) My friend saw HAIRSPRAY the week before Marissa left but she saw Kathy as Tracy and during the part where Tracy adds hair to the top of her wig "I'm keeping up with all the styles I'm teasing my hair as high as I can" The added hair fell off but she just bent down picked it up put it back on and kept going.

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When I saw Noises Off, Faith Prince accidentally dropped the wine bottle off the stage in the scene where they toss it around... and someone in the front row PICKED IT UP AND LAY IT ON THE EDGE OF THE STAGE. Faith looked at it and just laughed, and then went on with the show. =)

Updated On: 10/8/03 at 08:01 PM