Scary Stage Stories — Page 2

I was in Arabian Nights and we had this HUGE group scene coming up where it focused around the princess and the equivalent of Jafar in Aladdin. It was all about the girl who was playing the princess because she had the most lines in that scene and all the action and blocking revolved around hers. Well we get on stage, lights go up etc and lo and behold the girl who was playing the princess was no where to be found. She wasnt on stage with us and we were all silently freaking out about how we could work this without her. One of the other actors even slipped off stage to send someone to look for her. We ended up doing 20 min of improv (pure improv) and prayed that no one noticed. Turns out the girl was in the bathroom giving some guy a BJ (sorry to be so crude but its true.)

During an acting workshop we all pulled together some scenes and performed them. I was doing this scene called the Date Tests which was about this boy getting drilled by two REALLY overprotective parents so he could take their daughter on a date. (IE: interogations, scenarios, written tests etc.) Well the dad was supposed to have a temper so the guy who was playing him (this guy is 6 foot 1 mind) was supposed to bang his hands on a table at one point. Well instead he thought it would be fun to THROW the table. He grabbed it from underneath and shoved it off the shallow platform (it wasnt a stage, just a floor and then audience) and sends it flying with this huge crash. I nearly jumped out of my skin and lost character becuase all the stuff on it had come shooting off the table and the table even cracked. REALLY funny and the audience loved it but man did it scare the **** out of me. ^^

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My theatre group did a show a long time ago and the girl who was the lead could not stand up during intermission. It turns out she had a brain tumor and for the rest of the show someone had to stand in the wings and hold her up...


BTW Great discussion! Its kool hearing about other people's freaky stories

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I was in a production of 42nd Street, and the set we rented from Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, and was so decrepit that it serioulsy could have been the origional broadway set from way back in 1980 (same design, and waaaay old). Anyway, the train station stairway was falling apart, and in order to enter from the stairs you had to climb up these tall ladders. Our stage manager told us that we should only use the hand rails in extreme emergency because they "might break off at any moment." After we got past the scary clumb up, we had to dance down the incredibly shakey narrow stairs, and then for the end, literally run back to the top to do a big "hands in the air, high kicking ending." and of course, me being at the very top, i had the least amount of time to get the furthest distance. Lullaby of Broadway = scary beyond all belief.

Updated On: 1/13/05 at 02:48 AM