Pirate Queen Flips Its Wig
Pirate Queen Flips Its Wig
Brooklyn Bound
Understudy Joined: 3/9/04
#1Pirate Queen Flips Its Wig
Posted: 3/9/07 at 9:37pm
First act tonight, one of the ensemble men got his wig tangled in the ship's rigging. The show had to be halted mid scene. Stage hands came out to try and free him to no avail. Finally, he was extracted from the wig and he walked off stage hairless. How embarrasing. The show was restarted from the top of the scene.
Updated On: 3/10/07 at 09:37 PM
#2re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/9/07 at 10:05pmAside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show?
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fachedaluna
Stand-by Joined: 3/12/06
#2re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/9/07 at 10:10pmI'm glad it was only a Wig and not something else...$&%^&
#3re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:00pmFor the record again, though I have mentioned this elsewhere, the wigs on Pirate Queen are amazing. Jeff is downright leonine. Kudos to the wig crew at Tarzan also. Since these hard working folks rarely get a tip of the hat, it was worth mentioning again :)
#4re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:03pmI think a Broadway ghost is trying to warn them...
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#5re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 9:41amOT but I seem to remember a story about Rex Harrison loosing his toupee to the scenery during My Fair Lady. Don't recall how they handled it.
#6re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 9:54amLegend has it that one night the chandeliers in the ballroom scene were lowered too far and one of them hooked onto Harrison's toupe, lifting it off his head when they were raised to the proper height. He just continued with the scene, the wig dangling above the dancers until the curtain came down at the end of the act.
carnimiriel
Stand-by Joined: 12/16/04
#7re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 9:58amI was at the show too. Amusingly, when the stage manager(?) announced that they were going to hold there and for the actors to clear the stage, one of the women behind me thought it was supposed to be the "voice of God". I obviously didn't read my Playbill as carefully as she read hers.
#8re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 10:21am
"one of the women behind me thought it was supposed to be the "voice of God". "
Did she think she was in Spamalot?!
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#9re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 10:36amI was there as well. That was extremely amusing. The audience loved it.
Dibbledl01
Stand-by Joined: 1/7/07
#10re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 12:49pm
Yea, I was there too. Wonderful night. Fantastic show. But wasn't that the voice of Frank G., the director? I loved how the entire audience went "wwwwwhhhhhhaaaaaatttttt???" at the same time as soon as they asked the actors to exit the stage for a moment.
It's interesting. When I saw "Dracula" in previews Des M. got up and announced that due to the high risk of danger backstage for the actors and crew, because they were in previews, they had the right to stop the show at any time if anyone felt there was any danger. They didn't do that last night. Still amusing though.... 
carnimiriel
Stand-by Joined: 12/16/04
#11re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 12:56pmHence the question mark. I have no idea what the director nor the stage manager sound like.
fachedaluna
Stand-by Joined: 3/12/06
#12re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 2:45pmYes, BobbyBuddy...it's time for you to follow the light and be gone! LOL
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#13re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 2:53pmAnd just for the record - no apostrophe in the thread title.
#14re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 3:15pm
The same thing happened the 2nd time I saw it in Chicago. Not the wig thing, but something similar with an ensemble getting cuaght in the netting of the set, leaving him suspended and resulting in the show being stopped for a minute.
Reminds you how easy they make things look when you see something go wrong. I love live theatre! As long as noone gets hurt 
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#15re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 4:10pm
OT
what was so dangerous about being backstage for "Dracula"?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#16re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 4:26pm
I assume it was the flying sequences re Dracula
It is the ghost of Davy Jones.
fachedaluna
Stand-by Joined: 3/12/06
#17re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 6:59pmOooooooooooooo.......Mr. Roxy....Davy Jones’ spirit could lend a lot of excitement to the show...even more than there is. See what he did for Pirates of the Caribbean...Jack Sparrow lives on & on & and on.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#18re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 7:26pmHow come in Arthurian England, God sounds like John Cleese, but in the Garden of Eden, God sounds like Alan Alda?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#19re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 7:28pm
Speaking of Jack Sparrow
How about a Pirates of the Caribbean musical?
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#21re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 7:56pmI'm not sure Broadway would welcome a show about pirates... it's kind of edgy, no?
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#23re: Pirate Queen Flips It's Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 8:22pm
Um, I know. I was kidding :)
Pirates are Good
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#24re: Pirate Queen Flips Its Wig
Posted: 3/10/07 at 8:26pm
Man, I also have to give props to the hair folks on this show. To know that the wig was fastened so securely that the actor couldn’t get it off has got to be helpful to those who are worried that they fall off at the drop of a hat.
They must have used a staple gun.
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