What's The Most Embarrassing Moment You've Ever Seen In a Musical?- Page 2

[dancinfan]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 7:21pm

Mary Ethel, to tell you the truth, I don't know Goodbye Girl well at all, and this was so long ago...about the only thing I can tell you is that it might have been at the end of the rooftop love scene. You never know - it may have been a moment that was cut before the show got to NY.

I just remember being mortified that someone could be standing there with such enormous amounts of egg on her face and not give a damn.

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 8:58pm

Most embarassing that I've seen?

Robert Morse performing "Wonderful."

[N0tThatGirl213]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:00pm

George Hearn singing "Sentimental Man" and "Wonderful." Idina just stood there the whole time with this pained look on her face.

[morosco]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:03pm

Lynn Redgrave singing a half measure ahead of the orchestra during Ladies Who Lunch in Company at the Kennedy Center. (The conductor, Johnathan Tunick, held up his hand to stop her and let the orchestra catch up.)

John Barrowman screwing up a vital lyric in Being Alive. When he was supposed to sing "Somebody hold me too close" he sang "Someone to hold you too close". (I thought oh lord he's starting all over! He quickly recovered.)

Sean McDermott forgetting the lyrics to Something's Coming during West Side Story at Virginia Opera. (I wanted to sink under my seat. It was so awkward. After a few moments of only hearing the orchestra he found his place.) Updated On: 10/13/04 at 09:03 PM

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:14pm

Wicked.

[QuiteSo]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:35pm

Okay, this was actually kind of cute, but it must've been embarassing for him.

When I first saw The Producers, Roger Bart (as Leo) cracked on the first "He filled up my empty life"...so, it was "Hee*crack* filled up my empty life"...like I said, I thought it was cute. It was like he was getting emotional! Awww.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:39pm

bjivie - i saw that wicked blooper too. was it at the end of april? (cuz i know those wicked bloopers are far and few)

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:43pm

I hope that was sarcasm TAT

[NoDayButToday2]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 9:46pm

I think it would be rather embarrassing at first to be a straight guy and sing 'Today 4 U'

[Alix]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:04pm

Jon Secada making fish faces in CABARET...scary stuff.

Alix

[CaliforniaCarrie]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:15pm

Aaron Carter. In Suessical. LORD!

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:45pm

Sitting through a dreadful performance of my former college's "42nd Street", listening to a cast of musical theater majors who could not freakin' sing.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 10/13/04 at 11:47pm

P. Diddy.

Nuff said.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:02am

I saw a tour of The King and I and during the scene where the wives all lift up their skirts and run offstage because the ambassodor scares them with his beard, one of the actresses skirt fell off the hoop and she just stood there in her underwear for a few seconds in shock and then ran offstage by herself.

[LiTtLeDaNcEr729]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:07am

One night during one of my performances of West Side Story, a bunch of us were in the rehearsal hall just hanging out. Apparently the guys up in the booth randomly turned on the girl playing Anita's microphone- and the whole audience heard a few seconds of her singing rock music...

[MusicMan]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:34am

At the end of Act One in BRING BACK BIRDIE, Donald O'Connor was seen sitting on a toilet bowl as a huge latex tongue, protruding from a plexiglass cube stage left, bobbed lasciviously up and down in time to the metal thrashings of a punk rock band called Filth.
The worst.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:40am

Please tell me you're kidding. I know "Bring Back Birdie" was supposed to be bad but...

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:43am

during my school's production of annie during the leadin to the song maybe the sound woman turned up the wrong mic and suddenly annie was riffing through "tomorrow" (a mic backstage turned on and one of the boylan sisters was singing it)

[elphie327]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:55am

When I saw Little Shop last February, during one scene in the second act Hunter Foster tripped over something on the set and fell down, and the desk fell over with him. So during Suddenly Seymour you could see techs running on to the stage to pick everything back up

[thespian geek]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 3:42am

I never saw this, but I heard about it from someone who went and saw Wicked - it was sometime while Idina was in South Africa filming for "Ask The Dust" so Eden was in for her. Anyways, they got to the part where Elphaba and Glinda are fighting over Fiyero and the guards come in and capture her and Norbert swings in on the rope.. and when he crouches down to say the "Let the green girl go!" line, his pants ripped right up the seam. Apparently Eden and Kristin just lost it and were both nearly on the floor in hysterics. Norbert's a funny guy and does silly stuff anyways so he probably wasn't too badly embarassed.. but still. Oh man. That would have been so funny to see.

[MusicMan]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 10:33am

Not kidding, Rose McShane---it's been twenty years but it remains the nadir of my theatre-going experiences.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 12:03pm

"I hope that was sarcasm TAT"

I thought that was evident SOAT.

[JakeB]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:28pm

The other day at Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, when the childcatcher goes off on his bike thing, it wouldn't budge. Cue stagehands to run on and save it. The look on the actor's face as he realised it wasn't going anywhere and the scenery from upstage was starting to move downstage... priceless.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:33pm

CATS.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 10/14/04 at 1:46pm

A bloated, poorly aging Bonnie Tyler singing the "rock" ballad "Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts" during an Andrew Lloyd Webber concert. The song title alone is an embarassment.