Most Awkward Moment You've Ever Witnessed Onstage? — Page 2

A friend of mine owns a bootleg of Rent. Jeremy was playing Roger and Josh Kobak was on as Mark. Near the end, Mark is supposed to wheel out a projector to show off his film hes been shooting throughout the play. Josh flies out with the projector and as he goes to stop, the projector tips over and spills the film EVERYWHERE.

Josh looked so helpless, the line was "Turn the projector on.." but since there was no film, He just looked at the projector and said it more like "How do we do this now."

Jeremy was chuckling the whole time. When the lights cut out Jeremy, who was totally on, said his next line "Ah well...maybe we wont screen it tonight."

One of my favorites.

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Updated On: 10/1/05 at 01:02 AM

not something i saw personally but a story eric mccormack told on a tonight show interview. Apparantly one night while he was doing the music man he forgot ALL of the words to 76 trombones, and ended up scatting the song.

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During Dracula...when Lucy's clothes get ripped off and she has to run butt-assed naked into the bed. It was just like...WTF?

Also, when Mina and Drac take out their boobs during that one song in Act 2, that was just bizarre.

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Updated On: 11/11/05 at 11:44 PM

This story happened tonight as I watched "Bat Boy" being performed. I was working backstage as part of the wardrobe crew a few weeks ago and that was supposed to be my job throughtout the run of the play. Sadly, hurricane Wilma got in the way. So, afterwards, the play was rescheduled. Unfortuantely I couldn't work backstage because this weekend I am busy. However, I went to see the show tonight.

A bit into the second act, there was only 3 people onstage. Everyone had microphones and they weren't working very well. All of a sudden we hear a little voice saying "...but 2 more performances and..." There were a few of these cut in's with off stage mics. After about 45 seconds, I wanted to run out and into the backstage door and tell them all to shut up! Finally, it stopped but it was very scary. I tend to notice things that others don't but everyone in the audience was laughing. I felt terrible!

Also, I feel bad because this throat sickness is going around and Bat Boy has to kiss Shelley and some of their voices were crackly. Bat Boy sang notes in a different range because he would crack in the middle of the note and Merideth sounded so congested. Uhh-- I hope they can make it through 2 more shows!! The singing teacher told them that after they left, that they couldn't go out and had to go home and sleep and they couldn't talk until they came for the next performance. She also told them to drink tea with honey and all that stuff. Now I'm just wondering which of the cast members actually followed those rules...


EDIT: The story actually happened LAST NIGHT if you want to get technical with the midnight timing thing.

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Updated On: 11/12/05 at 12:21 AM

The only awkward moment I've ever experienced was during a performance of Cinderella at the Paper Mill the other night. During the first scene, someone announced that they had techincal difficulties and had to stop the show for a couple of minutes.

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temms, that is hilarious, but tis' awkward!

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Kind of like temms'...I went to see my friend's Les Miz, and for the drop-down scenes (like "Montreuil-sur-Mer 1823" etc), they were using a Powerpoint. Well, one time something went wrong, so the Windows welcome screen dropped.

Once during rehearsal of our Les Miz, our Marius had to run offstage because he suddenly got very sick and had to throw up, but nobody knew/saw him/was told, so we were all very, very confused.

Ok, I've said this story before on the board but whatever:
During the pre-Broadway tryout of Spamalot, right after when Lancelot has the "gay number" and the knights all gather back together, Hank Azaria comes running on in his knight costume, but with the flower in his hair from the flamenco costume poking out of his helmet. All of the other cast members just stared at him for a good two minutes until he looked and saw the flower sticking out, then quickly tucked it under his chain mail. Funniest happy accident I've ever seen, though not really too awkward, considering that it's Spamalot.

This moment started in the audience. I was at Pillowman. This part of the play was pretty serious and quiet when Goldblum was questioning Crudup-about 20 minutes into the play. A latecomer was seated and immediately YELLED out-"AM I IN THE RIGHT SEAT?" I mean YELLED. The entire house heard it. To make matters worse, someone across the house YELLED back-"BE QUIET OR I'M CALLING SECURITY" "NO, I WILL NOT BE QUIET!" etc, etc. I never felt more uncomfortable, know that the actors heard this and it wouldn't stop. I was sure Goldblum would announce that the play would stop immediately. Thank goodness the yelling ceased and the actors hadn't completely lost their focus. I'm also glad it didn't ruin the experience for me, as this was the most exquisite theatre I have ever seen.

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LOL

Okay, I was playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan and right at the beginning of "Hook's Waltz" my microphone fell of my waistband and dropped to the bottom of my nickers. I added some choreography and cleverly tried to make its retrieval look casual, but the mike pack was at my knee, and the pins from the headset were pulling at my hair. So, I just quickly clipped it to my sword holster.

But wait....

Captain Hook passes out each time he hears the crocodile. So, a little later in the show, i hear the crocodile and "pass out" as i fall, i land on my Mike pack/ sword holster and the sword breaks in half. No one realized this but me, and, if you are familiar with the show, you know that right after the final "pass out" there is a very important Sword fight between Peter and Hook. At a quick moment, appropriate for all the other actors, I ran off stage and grabbed another sword. It was the scariest moment of my life.

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i was at the first performance when the car broke down in chitty chitty bang bang. While awkward it was so much fun!

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THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK: There was this scene where all the leads (Lucy Arnaz, Maria Friedman, Joanna Riding) were standing outside of a house, behind a piece white picket fence. All of a sudden the fence fell over for some reason. Maria Friedman, who played Sukie, was eating ice-cream in the scene and she scooped this huge spoonful of ice-cream and quickly put it in her mouth to keep herself from laughing. Lucy Arnaz (Alexandra) and Joanna Riding (Jane) just stared the fence and started to crack. Somehow they managed to finish the scene - with the fence on the floor - and they went off the stage. A few seconds later Maria Friedman returned and picked the fence up and just simply walked off carrying the fence.