Most embarassing moments on stage

Hey guys, I need to tell stories for my acting class and one of them has to be a lie. So, I figured why not tell someone elses story for my own....SO here's what I think would be fun. Tell me your most embarassing moment onstage, or an embarassing moment that you have witnessed. Its going to really help! Thanks guys!

My most embarassing moent on stage? Being in Will Rogers Follies

Singing the wrong verse of Captain Hook's Waltz, and having to go back and sing a verse... or knocking over the Piano I was standing on as Julian Marsh in 42nd Street... luckily that was just a dress rehearsal... but the Hook's Waltz.. yeah that was closing Night... erk.

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For my high school theater class, everyone had to do short scenes for this comedy show one night and we were going to be graded on them. The other person was supposed to "pull" me off stage with her, but she actually pulled rather hard, so I slipped off my shoe. The big chunky heel hit the stage (which was hollow underneath) and it let out this huge "BOOM!" that echoed throughout the theater. The two of us froze for a second, then started to walk offstage. I got almost behind the curtain when I realized my shoe was still out on the stage, so I had to run back out and get it. My friend burst out laughing at me from behind the curtain, when I picked up my shoe, then I started laughing and hobbled offstage with one bare foot and one shoe in a 4 inch heel.

Thankfully, we were doing a comedy scene, so the only person that knew we had screwed up was the director. Unfortunately, she was also the one grading us.

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Updated On: 9/14/05 at 04:33 PM

Not really the most embarrassing, but in the last show I was in: Ragtime, I was playing Willie Conklin and in my last scene for my last line I shout "White people should be grateful for what I done!" as the police drag me off-stage. well one night they dragged me off and their legs moved faster then mine did so I ended up falling on my ass as they dragged me off... it worked, I guess, but ya know... it wasn't supposed to happen...

When I was SM'ing Oklahoma one of my crew members brought the lights up too early for "Farmer and the Cowman" and there I was onstage still adjusting the house. The only way out would be to walk off the stage or slip through the fence which was upstage and then wait behind the house until the next black-out. The fence was the most discreet and thankfully, our Judd was great and stood in front of me as I squeezed my way through the fence. To make matters worse, my head-set fell off and got caught in the fence!! So I quickly untangled my head-set and rushed behind the house, Judd was hysterically laughing at that point. Miraculously, the only people who noticed were the lighting crew.

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Last year when we did Stand and Deliever we were doing the school performance and one of the stage hands tripped down the stairs dropped the American Flag in front of 2000 kids. It was soooo funny

I was playing finch in How to Succeed... . it was a matinee for all the blue hairs. we got to the old ivy fight song, and the lyric is "rip, rip, rip the chipmunk off the field" well, I was doing a little dance, and each time we sing "rip", we lunge a little further, well on the final, "rip", a lunged a little too far, and the crotch of my pants split open. it wouldn't have been so bad exept for the fact that I was wearing black slacks with white underwear. for the rest of the song, everytime I took a step, the audience got a full picture of my tidy whities.

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Updated On: 9/14/05 at 11:06 PM

I agree, Prisoner 24601, that story is absolutely hysterical. I would have peed myself.

I cracked up at that Sound of Music story... thing is, I can honestly see the guy who played the head-Nazi-persson in our production actually doing that.

not my story but I was there, Imn a production of greece i was the chorus had a very quick change from the greas lightening scene to regular teenage clothes. We had girls in our grease lightening scene and in the quick change between coveralls and pretty swishy skirt one of them manged to get hee skirt caught in the back of her panties and dida good bit of the next scene like that, luckily she did not turn around too much but obviulsey the poor girl was mortified when she came off, to make it worse the lead guy came and had a go at her for it during the interval right before the second act......he then promptly walked straight back on stage and did the rest of the performance with his flys undone and *everything* on show with out realising it.....funnily enough the chorus girl felt alot better after that and although we all remember what she did no one else does where as everyone still talks about Danny flashing his bits and pieces to a packed house

That is the best, Prisoner!

Along the same lines: I was in Big River and when the posse is looking for Jim, they were supposed to be in a boat that was pulled across the stage. Of course, the rope breaks and they are struggling with the rope backstage. I try to cover with a line "Ya'll having trouble over there" which gets a laugh but not as big a laugh as when one of the posse guys walked across the stage, paddling with an oar in the air.

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Our coach in Damn Yankees messed up the first verse of Heart, and then when we were supposed to come in--he just kept on singing the same verse again, only right this time--the orchestra had to drop out, and finally the horn player LAID DOWN his transition and my friend Blake screamed his lyric and we got back on--whew!