Most Unprofessional Thing You've Done as a performer!

It's time to confess!!!!
Me: When I did gypsy, I was a farmboy so all of Act 2 was free, i would run accross the street in full make up and get trashed for curtain call.
Also, i once did Joseph after some serious 420.

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Hah,

I dont think I have done one professional production where we didn't play drinking games backstage during the show.

Akiva

I was Chuck in "Footloose". Right after "Holding Out for a Hero", my character storms in looking for Ariel. On the final dress rehearsal, I walk in and I say: "Ariel! Where the fu-- Oh, sh*t. I'm sorry, let me do that over." The director wasn't happy, but he knew that I'm not good at covering myself (which is something I've improved on since then).

I also got really "smashed" with some friends the night before the final performance of another show...

Why in the name of heaven would anyone respond with an actual anecdote? I mean, unless you don't care if you're hired in the future.

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Updated On: 6/8/05 at 12:58 AM

I know tons of ppl that go out and get wasted the night before too. But this tops all of yours:
I was in the annual benefit show for Hospital anyway, this is a show people like doctors and corporate people and famous people pay $5000 to go see, and my friend shows up, whos suppose to a.be mic-ed and b. play his guitar during the opening number and he shows up 5 minutes before we go on high as a kite. He then forgets to bring on his guitar, so he's just standing on the riser, playing the air guitar completely oblivious to the situation. Then we went on (mind you this is 3 hours later) for the finale and they were showing a movie about the featured patient, a 10 year old with cancer. now everyone is crying in the house and my friend gets up, right next to a mic and starts laughing. I was sooooo embarrassed (trying not to laugh) but still embarrassed.

A piece of advice to would be performers, do not piss off the pit.

When I was in high school (when Cross Colour was still cool), we have one performer who was full of himself. Always act like the biggest diva the world have ever seen. Well, he was yelling at us for making him look bad, nevermind that he doesn't need our help to look bad. He also pissed of the student conductor by making his little sister (who was in the cast) cry one day. So, we decided to make him look bad by slowing down during his big number, then when he adjust, we speed up the number.

So, the moral of the story, be nice to the pit.

When I was in The Tempest in 7th grade, they had me play Ariel and I remember out of sheer laziness only memorizing the very beginning and end of every speech for an entire scene.

BAD PINGUIN!

:0)

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Let's see:
On stage, when I was in a show, called Runaways, I played a drug addict, and during my "Lullabye for Louis" number, (and in some parts of the second act) I was doing Poppers.

Also, when I met Mandy Patinkin, I asked "What's it like working with Bernadette Peters?"

And when I saw "Five Guys Named Moe" for the third time, the understudy was on as NoMax, and the original performer was sitting behind me. During intermission, I told him that he was so much better than the understudy, and I later came to find out, I was sitting next to the Understudy's mother who heard the whole conversation.

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Put ice into Nellie Forbush's rinse water bucket.

She deserved it.

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Fell down when I was in Dames in Sea. I don't think that qualifies as unpro., but it sure as hell was embarrassing.

I was a dancer in "Sweet Charity" and I found a big bag of polyester stuffing backstage. I put half the bag in one cup of my bra and half the bag in the other before I did the "Hey Big Spender" number.

Ok... here goes.

I was Sheridan Whiteside in my high school's production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner". On the final performance, the director (the world's worst director and biggest jackass) decided it would be funny to let everyone add things to their parts that he thought were funny.

So in the middle of the show, I'm doing a long scene of dialogue with the actress playing Lorraine, when all of a sudden the actress playing Harriet walks out on stage. Harriet was NOT supposed to be in the scene! Apparently the director told her that it would be funny if she walked out on stage in the middle of the scene and asked for Lorraine's autograph. This stopped the scene dead for like THREE MINUTES! All the while, I'm just sitting there going like "Now what do I do?" When Harriet finally left the stage, we picked right up where we left off, but you could tell by their reactions that the audience had absolutely no idea what we had been talking about before the interruption.

Needless to say, I was LIVID! Here is where I let my anger overtake my professionalism. For those of you who don't know the show, Whiteside gives a big Christmas Eve radio broadcast at the end of act two, delivered from Sheridan's desk. Set on my desk were prop liquor bottles filled with water and apple juice to stand in for real booze. I decided to get my revenge, when I spent the entire last half of the act, pounding down shots of liquor. By the time I was to give my radio broadcast, I had gotten myself so "wasted" that I was not even saying the lines of the broadcast (nobody else had any lines, so I wasn't screwing with people's cues). I was a happy, sloppy drunk, laughing hysterically and dribbling apple juice all down the front of my shirt. My favorite part was when I gathered a mouthful of apple juice and then burst out laughing and spit the mouthfull out! It was my most unprofessional moment on stage... but also one of the most fun.

I came off stage and the director was backstage, so I went up to him and was like, "So what did you think?" Hehe. So bad... but at least I got my revenge. Well that's my story.

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Probably the most unprofessional thing I've ever done as a performer was just being in the Mystery of Edwin Drood. On our last night, we were out of character for like, the whole play. It was one of those plays where you can't help but laugh in the middle of it, even when you're on stage.