OOWWW

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:20pm

Anyone ever get hurt during a show?

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:24pm

Tripped on stage during Cabaret and stepped on my other foot with the heel of my sandal. That HURT.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:27pm

One time when my friend's company was doing Macbeth someone said Macbeth and a minute later the girl playing Lady Macbeth accidently put her arm through a glass window. She did the whole show with a bleeding arm.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:28pm

OUCH.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:32pm

yea, i hav e afunnier one though. at a chorus line curtain call. 1 of the performers fainted so 2 other actors proped him up and bowed him forward, dragged him offstage and plunked him face first in the wing.. i hope he didnt hurt his nose! :S

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:34pm

Wow. I was in Alice in Wonderland when I was like 12 and I had to start my scene off sitting on the edge of the stage. I was the Dodo, and the costume designer had made my costume kind of bluky, so when I got up to talk to everyone, I went one foot off the edge of the stage.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:35pm

you didnt fall though, right?

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:37pm

No, I actually managed to catch myself, which I think hurt just as bad.

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:47pm

Well, I got hurt doing Anne of Green Gables, but it wasn't totally my fault. I played Miss Stacy, and became a sort of second mother to the ensemble who were playing the school kids. This often led to familial spats, of course, as they were often rowdy and I was called upon to calm them down. One spat occured backstage during a performance. One of the kids was being stubborn and rude for no real reason, so I gave her a quiet lecture in the green room and then sent her into the wings to get ready for an entrance. After the song - maybe it was "School Again"? - the kids come off stage left, and they always mill around in the wings, so I stand there and usher them into the green room. Well, the stubborn, bossy girl came off last, and I gave her a semi-gentle push on the back towards the green room door. She turned around and punched me in the stomach. It hurt. My solo was soon, and I went on totally winded. It was terrible.

Oh! And during a performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...well, I played a brother (yes, I am a girl, they needed more brothers). During "Canaan Days", there was a little choreography-type-thing where one brother would move in front of the other, trying to hog the spotlight, and then the other would try to get in front, and then we'd have little catfights until Jacob quieted us. On one of the nights, as I was fighting with Asher (I was Zebulun), he hit my nose with the heel of his palm by accident. I could barely breathe for the rest of the song (and show), and my nose was sore for months afterwards. Oh! And during rehearsals for Anne, I was telling someone how he had hit my nose, and they said, "Oh, like this?" and did what he had done. Ow. Just when my nose was getting better.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:49pm

oh Myth, that girl is a bitch, you shoulda punched her right back!

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:51pm

I try to refrain from punching children...but I should've. Updated On: 12/18/04 at 03:51 PM

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:52pm

come now, is punching an innocent little girl REALLY that bad!? I mean, if someone punched me i would smack the hell outta the little whore... i mean girl.

[edenespinosalover]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 3:58pm

When I was in West Side Story, a Shark accidently actually punched one of the Jets and his nose started bleeding on stage. Oh, and then in "Hello Dolly", somehow my foot got caught under Minnie's chair while she was frozen in a pose. And I ended up making the chair slip from under her and she fell straight backwards.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 4:01pm

tee-heee. that's funny

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 4:15pm

Opening night of Music Man no one thought to put a blue light backstage. We had never practiced at night before. It was PITCH BLACK. I was running offstage to do a quick change, fell down the steps in the dark, and popped my wrist out of joint. Luckily it popped back in by the end of the show, but it was SCARY!

[Kimsus123]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 5:31pm

I was in Oliver when I was about 13. I was Bet, and during Oom Pa Pa (the drunken bar song) there was a part where we all clanked glasses and then threw the wine bottles filled with water to our mouths to drink. welllll i clanked glasses and then clanked it to my mouth but my tooth kinda got in the way. Chipped part of the back of my tooth off right in the middle of the song! kept going though!! oh good times...

[keatonbynumbers]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 5:46pm

The Domino Effect -

When I directed Guys & Dolls, I remember opening night - as the Hot Box Dancers were filing off-stage, the girl in back tripped and slammed into the girl in front of her, who slammed into the girl in front of HER, and they all fell down. The one in the front ended up with a pretty severe broken nose.

Our Nathan was brilliant though, and threw in an ad-lib about none of the girls wearing their glasses because they thought it spoiled their looks. The audience laughed, thankfully.

[pab]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 5:56pm

Does dying count?

71-year-old Irene Ryan suffered a stroke while performing in the Broadway musical "Pippin" and died six weeks later.

Cyril Ritchard suffered a heart attack during a performance in Chicago of the musical "Side By Side", causing him to slip into a coma from which he never recovered.

Arnold Soboloff suffered a heart attack during a New York City performance of "Peter Pan".

While giving a comedy performance at the UC San Diego campus, Dick Shawn fell and struck his head on the stage. The comedian lay there for nearly five minutes before the audience realized it was not part of his act and an ambulance was called. He died forty-five minutes later in hospital, apparently of a heart attack.

Richard Versalle a 63-year-old tenor died onstage at New York's Metropolitan Opera immediately after delivering the line: "Too bad you can only live so long" in Janacek's "The Makropulos Case". It was the first performance and Versalle, who was playing the legal clerk Vitek alongside Jessye Norman, climbed a 20 ft ladder to file a legal brief, but had a heart attack and plunged to the ground. Janacek's opera is about the secret of eternal life.

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 6:00pm

I remember reading somewhere that...wait, let me find it.

"Playing Judas in a Greek production of Jesus Christ Superstar, Anthony Wheeler's performance was supposed to conclude with Judas hanging himself, a stunt he'd successfully negotiated 20 previous times. This time he forgot to fasten the rope to his safety harness."

[BroadwayBaby21]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 6:02pm

*raises hand* I have! and it was quite embarrassing...

During this past summer, i was in Joseph..., We had these sets of high platforms and stairs... At the end, we had a blackout where everyone had to run off quickly and change into the MegaMix costumes... well I couldnt see (it was the first time we did the blackout, and they hadnt put the glow tape down yet) and I didn't realize the high platform had ended... So I fell like 3 feet down to the stage. Luckily I just bruised my shin, though...

[pab]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 6:06pm

Another actor, Renato Di Paolo, playing Judas mistakenly hanged himself in Camerata Nuova, a town 45 miles from Rome. Di Paolo's death was captured on film by someone shooting a video of the outdoor play.

[cturtle]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 6:24pm

i've gotten hurt on several theatrical occasions. i've left the theatre with my eardrums splitting.

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 6:26pm

Which reminds me...I saw a community theatre production of Dracula (which was incredibly cheesy, for the record), and for one of Dracula's entrances, something...exploded. I don't know. It flashed and made a loud noise and gave off smoke. I was right in front of the stage (it was a dinner theatre), and it must've been the air pressure change, but my left ear really hurt afterwards. All I could hear was ringing for the rest of the performance.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 9:56pm

During a production of Sleeping Beauty-

Right before the last scene, during a blackout, I was rolling on the bed and Sleeping Beauty was already on it. The edge of the bed went over my foot and I had a shooting pain. I quickly put the bed where it belonged and ran offstage and outside (I had a minute before I had to go onstage). I knew that something was wrong but I took a few deep breaths and went back inside and got onstage in time for my cue, and did the scene. After the curtain call I fell to the ground. The cast helped get my shoe and sock off, and it turned out the nail of my big toe was standing straight up. One of our techies came over and said that the same thing happened to him and that the pain was unbearable and he had no idea how I could have gone on with the scene.
As soon as I got home my mother stuffed a towel in my mouth and my grandfather cut, and ripped my toenail off.

OWWWWWWWW!

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/18/04 at 9:59pm

Ow ow ow ow OW. Just reading that makes my toe hurt.