Most awkward moment you ever had in a theater? — Page 3

I was in a production of The Wizard of Oz, and we used a smoke machine for the melting of the Wicked Witch. There's only about 20ish minutes left in the show, but it took an extra 35 minutes because the fire alarm went off.

During a variety show, a crew member somehow left a hot dog on the stage and I stepped on it during a song and slipped.

During a production of Beauty and the Beast, during the song Belle, I accidentally knocked over the egg salesman, splattering his eggs everywhere. Luckily I was the bookseller and it happened right outside of the bookstore set piece so I grabbed a broom and rag and cleaned it as best as I could while Gaston proposed to Belle or whatever happens.

Oh I forgot! I was in Hugo in Bye Bye Birdie, and at the end of Act I when I punch Conrad in the face, he spun around and hit Kim hard. She was bleeding everywhere. When she said "Hugo Peabody, I never want to speak to you again!" She spat her blood in my face.

I want to bring this back because I thought of another. During a production of Hamlet, during one of Hamlet's soliloquies (can't remember which one) an audience member shouted out "try Prozac!". He was kicked out at intermission.

The national tour of Camelot with Lou Diamond Phillips.

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I saw Blithe Spirit a few years ago with my mom and sister and there was a teenage couple making out practically horizontal in the mezzanine.

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I will never understand why people have a problem with nudity in performance art??

I took my 60 year old co worker (in town from OHIO no less) to see Hair on Broadway. we sat in the boxes (rush seats) at the Hirschfeld and had a blast! Nudity was never an issue that I even thought about bringing up. Wouldn't having a problem taking my parents or even grandparents.

This week I sat front for Testament of Mary. Ms Shaw has a very in your face nude scene that is quite effective and I thought it worked very very well. Was not gratituos at all. Did I want to stare at her vajay vajay all night, no. Did it bother me, no!

I just don't get it people. To each his own I guess.

now the guy with the w**dy in his sweatpants. that's gross. unless he wants my phone #? :)

Well it's tacky and awful -- but you asked:

When PHANTOM opened at the Majestic, it was cold outside and I was wearing a giant 80's style overcoat.

I just really really really had to pee.

Down in the bathroom, I wrestled the coat open and was trying to keep its flaps at bay while doing my thing. I quickly realized that I couldn't hear the sound you're supposed to hear when relieving yourself... but I also couldn't stop. Horrified and trying not to react, I thought that I might be standing there pissing down the inside of my fabulous Dick Tracy styled coat.

As I bolted from the scene I awkwardly checked to see if I what I feared was true. It was not. All dry. To this day, though, I have no idea exactly where it all went. So if someone out there was peed on in the bathroom of the Majestic around that time, feel free to contact me. I owe you money for dry cleaning.

Updated On: 4/20/13 at 05:39 PM

I've had several.

- During The Wedding Singer, the little girl in front of me asked her mom what a "skanky ho" was after the grandmother sang about Linda being a skanky ho.

-During Spring Awakening, this much too young to be seeing the show boy in front of me asked his father if Hanschen and Ernst were gay during the infamous vineyard scene kiss.

-During Wicked, a gentlemen behind me fell asleep, and awoke with a start during 'Defying Gravity' and kept asking what was going on.

-During Brooklyn, this little girl seated next to me very loudly told her mother she hated the show, that it was stupid, and she wanted to go home - much to the horror of all on stage.

-During West Side Story, when Maria asked what Tony stood for, a drunk woman in the front row next to my friend and I screamed - "It's Tony, stupid!".

-During '..Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher' in Billy Elliot, Carol Shelley saw me clapping along and kept smiling and urging me to keep going with several thumbs up.

- This one is more adorable than awkward, but - during Mandy Gonzalez's last in Wicked, when Katie Rose Clark said "Let the little girl go, and that poor little dog, Dodo" - a little girl of maybe four, stood up on her chair in front of me and said - "It's Toto!". Mandy and Katie Rose couldn't keep it together, and just kept laughing.

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Updated On: 4/21/13 at 08:31 AM

...which was JACK (Barrymore), and he was so roaring drunk on opening night that he fell into the front row at one point (talk about awkward) It almost closed at intermission. I think it closed within a week - maybe two.

In "Catch Me if You Can" I was so excited to get great seats at the last minute but then my neighbor turned out to be a very drunk guy and his wife. They came in 15 minutes late and acted like it was an afterthought to go to the theater. He kept drinking and getting drunker, and then fell asleep. He snored a gutteral snore. Then he woke up and placed his wife's hand in his crotch. You can write the rest because I won't. My friend and I were repulsed, got up and left and told the manager, who offered us tickets to see the show again. Unfortunately the show closed before we could get back.

I know it was awful, but we were hysterical and to this day still laughing about it.

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