The Most Embarassing Thing You've Ever Had To Do Onstage?- Page 3

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 5:40pm

Okay, this wasn't onstage, but it's performing nonetheless, so bear with me.

I'm a voiceover actress, and a couple weeks ago I was doing some work with a friend at a Turkish TV studio - the shows are Turkish, we're providing the English dubbing. Anyway, my character and some friends went out to a bar and were singing a sort of Turkish drinking song - which wasn't translated. So now, not only did I have to sing (and when someone tells you to intentionally sing badly [because the characters were drunk], you just can't sing at ALL, I've found) but I had to sing in Turkish. I don't speak ANY Turkish, so someone had to come in the recording booth and teach me the song phoneticallly. So now my voice has been captured on tape (digital recording... whatever) singing unfamiliar words to an unfamiliar melody, OFF-KEY. I just know that's going to come back to haunt me someday. Hee.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 6:31pm

twasn't embarrising, more so funny now that I look back on it, but in 6th grade I was an Indian in Annie Get Your Gun. And the costume people for the show ran out to buy a bunch of Indian Halloween costumes, and they brought back one too few. I was the lucky person without a costume, so they went into the closet with stuff from past productions and brought out a hula skirt, brown vest, some kind of hippie head band and a fish net and chucked it at me and said "here see if you can make this work." I looked more like a drunk hula girl who was just laid than a Native American. I went on opening night like that. Luckily, when my mom saw what they put on me she ran home and sewed a costume for me.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 9:15pm

Drop mah pants.

I was Hines in "The Pajama Game".

Also, I recently played Hans in "Cabaret", which we did in a black box theater. Befor ehte show began, we ushered the audience to their seats and had to interact with them in slutty ways until the show actually started. When my parents were there...yeah...that was a little embarassing. Updated On: 6/21/06 at 09:15 PM

[justagirl2]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 9:25pm

Wear a very tight corset and bikini bottoms that my ass was hanging out of in front of a HUGE cast, HUGE audiences, and the fam. A picture of it ended up being in a local paper, ugh! I despise Li'l Abner, a LOT.

P.S. - To those of you who've been in Wonderland, I feel your pain...I was in it 4 years ago, and it scarred me for life. Awful.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 9:27pm

justagirl- what role did you play in Wonderland?

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 10:23pm

When I was in 4th grade, we did this play about native americans being taken back to England... or something? It was a long time ago, I can't remember. But I got to play this spirited Native American who dies of smallpox. So I had this random death scene, which I got REALLY into. It was actually a lot of fun to do. The embarassing part was afterwards, everyone made fun of me for being so passionate and emotional about it.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 11:35pm

The White Queen...how about you?

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 11:38pm

justagirl-

I was the white queen too!!

...and a dixie chicken *but we won't get into that*

Do you have pictures? If you do, PM me them and I'll PM you mine. But, I'll do it tomorrow because I'm about to get offline soon.

[ThreePennyJennyxo]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 11:49pm

I had a big show in the afternoon and I forgot about it and I drank so much soda before the show and i never do that, so I remembered I had the show and it was my song and I had to hit a huge note at the end, instead of hitting the note a huge burp came out! I was so embaressed! Then I walk off stage and my director says jokingly to me "you were sopost to bleh it Missy not burp it!" hahaha

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 6/21/06 at 11:57pm

I was in this really really really really bad production of the 12th Night about 6 years ago, it was set in the 60’s and nobody in the audience knew what the hell was going on. During the last scene I remember some kids in the front row making eye contact with me and they looked very confused, and completely not being in character all I could do was just shrug back.

[Dot2]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 12:54am

My high school did "Les Miz" and as there were thousands of girls there with better singing voices than me and not nearly enough boys, I was cast as Enjolras (p.s. I'm a girl). That was pretty embarrasing. There was a funny moment that made up for it - our HS double-casts its shows, and the other Enjolras was a freshman guy. On one of the nights he performed, my parents were sitting in front of a couple who knew that one of the Enjys was played by a girl, and by "Do You Hear the People Sing?", they had decided it was him.

My HS also wore our costumes to school during performance weekend, and I wore my prostitute costume...pretty embarassing until my friends had gotten to school and I wasn't the only one in a low-cut top and twelve layers of eyeshadow.

One more...this was in rehearsal, but I was attempting to be sexy as Olive in "Odd Couple Female Version" while laying on a countertop...and I fell off the counter. Oops.

person who orgasmed w/ snickers...was this for "Vagina Monologues"?

[justagirl2]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 1:08am

No way! That's hysterical! I don't actually have pictures, because it was so long ago and I never bought a picture CD, but I'd love to see yours! It was a really bad experience...the girl who played Alice is one of my worst enemies, my king was really creepy, and 90% of the other kids in it thought they were the s***. Actually, though, the girl in my avatar with me played the Red Queen. So funny.

One of my younger sisters was a Dixie Chicken...we aren't allowed to bring it up to her. :)

[WordedGrace]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 1:43am

Had to endure being in Godspell with an entirely tone deaf lead cast.. even the playing Jesus made me want to convert!!!! Don't get started on the fact I choreographed and it turned out to be a special dance moment...It was not pretty at all!!!

God save the people!

[theatregrl0456]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 2:14am

wow, i don't really have anything to add, but i loved reading all these, there were some really awful ones

[Weez]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 3:32am

Dot: I'd love to be a girl Enjolras, but he's waaaaay too low for me to sing. So it may have been a tad on the mortifying side, but on the other hand, it's kinda cool.

[big_girls_don't_cry]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 5:10pm

I didn't mean to do it!!! I was briggita in the sound of music and we had these tiny pillars like statues to put things on, on stage left/right in DOE RE MI i was backing up for the note FA and there was a vase and i backed up and it fell and broke... this was dress rehearsel.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 6:47pm

I'm so glad I'm not an actor.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 6:51pm

justagirl- I'll PM you my photobucket link to see the pictures. You think your King was creepy?

I still have nightmares about the red and white knights.

Edit: justagirl- I WAS going to PM you my photobucket link but...you don't accept PM's

Updated On: 6/22/06 at 06:51 PM