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#26

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/13/06 at 11:24am

i was sky in guys and dolls and in the scene in the mission when sarah opens drawrers to hand me the phamplets the tech crew had put handcuffs and condoms.......needless to say we almost lost it when she opened the drawrer and for the rest of the scene into "i'll know" you could tell we were smiling more that usual.
it may have been one of those "you had to be there" moments....
#27

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/13/06 at 11:34am

I was doing The Music Man as Marian, and one of the kisses was my first kiss. We didn't even practice in rehearsals, up there on stage was my first kiss. And I wasn't nervous or anything, the guy was gay and my best friend. So we got it over with but then backstage, his mic was still on and he was making jokes to me about how I should use more tongue. Everyone heard it. Everyone. Including my parents and my grandmother and my teachers and...everyone.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#29

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/13/06 at 12:05pm

I was playing a nurse in our college production of this very unusual Japanese play called The Head of Mary. In this one scene the patient that I am speaking to is supposed to remove a thermometer from under his arm pit, hand it to me, and then I'm supposed to shake it and then hold it up in the light. One night he reached for it and apparently couldn't find it so he handed me nothing, but still pretended like he was handing me something. So me being panic stricken, I pretended I had a thermometer in my hand, when clearly I didn't, and pretended to shake it and hold it to the light. I felt pretty stupid.
"It's the smile you smile that counts, happy thoughts in large amounts, any problem you can trounce, you can bounce right back."--Donald O'Connor
#30

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/13/06 at 2:17pm

I just thought of another, even though it happened in rehearsals...

I was doing "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with Jack Eric Williams who was playing Big Daddy (duh, he was the original Beadle--BIG guy).

Our first rehearsal together (we had not yet even met), I was laying on the brass bed and he was to circle around and sit on the end. He did and the brass bed bent in half and collapsed. We were both sitting on the floor under the twisted brass and sheets and I didn't know what to do... I look over at him, and see him shaking. Shaking with laughter. Next thing you know, we are all screaming with laughter. We became fast friends after that...

They reinforced the bed (and stage) for the run of the show.

Miss him.

EDIT: In case anyone was wondering, I played Brick, NOT Maggie. HaHaHa re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

Updated On: 7/13/06 at 02:17 PM

#31

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/13/06 at 11:43pm

I was playing Moritz in a production of SPRING AWAKENING. One night, in the scene where I was to kill myself, I fired the gun, but there was no shot. I fired again...still no shot. This repeated about six times until finally there was a shot. As I was "lying dead" on the stage, I could barely contain my laughter, and I got a huge applause that night at the curtain call.
#32

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 1:21am

Geez, sorry to bump this up, but I was hoping there were more performers out there with a funny story! Don't be shy...we won't judge (HAHAHAHAHA)!

(We all have these moments, even though we would prefer to forget them!)
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#35

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 1:37am

I recently played Albert in Bye Bye Birdie at my high school. During the final scene of my final performance (my last performance at my school since I was a senior), I was trying to keep from crying and completely blanked on a line. I was suppose to say that I had a ticket to Pumpkin Falls, but instead I said that the tickets were for Sweet Apple (which is where we were leaving from). Then I kind of skipped over a few lines and gave the cue line to "Rosie," the final song, at which point I started to really choke up. It was just a really difficult scene to get through.
#36

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 1:38am

In jr. High I was in this very serious play about the holocaust. I was standing on a platform in the back as the narrator. As one girl had a monologue I started to cough.... and couldn't stop. I had one last monologue to do before my exit. So i speed (and coughed) through it and sprinted off stage. IT was horrible.

THEN>>>
LAst year we did Footloose and I was a townseperson, one night backstage i realized, my dress had ripped. All the way up to my ass. I had to be so careful when dancing in the final number... and my bf was there

THEN>>>>
PETER PAN; I was an indian dancer. We incorperated these sticks into our dance which were on the ground at the end. Well, during the dance my leg wrap came off. So at the end everyone runs off and some people are supposed to grab the sticks. I was busy trying to find my leg wrap, I then look up realize i'm the only one left onstage and see there are 2 sticks left on stage. I grab the sticks stare at the audience and in my be imporization, let out an "aeieieeiei" Xena cry and wave my sticks like weapons as I run off.

Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. ~Cymbeline
#37

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 2:45am

I'm loving all of the High School and JR High stories, but, please... I know some of you PRO's are out there. I've seen alot of crazy sh*t on stage. I'll start telling... re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#38

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 4:47am

Sorry... another high school story.

So, we were doing this rather hilarious farce entitled "Lily The Felon's Daughter" in which I played a British gentleman who goes off to Alaska at the end of the second act, and returns at the end of the third in a hilariously gigantic fur coat. Now, I was already rather notorious with our school's head costume mom, but this took the cake. I guess I had just forgotten that I went on near the end of the second act, and took the oppertunity to change costumes before the act was over. So I walked out on stage, in the middle of the show, in the huge fur coat, and I had to play the rest of the act with it on. Thank goodness it was the dress rehearsal!

Also, during a performance of Bye, Bye Birdie, there was this really cool circular set piece that Birdie sang on at the beginning of "Honestly Sincere", but the entire cast was supposed to faint at the end, and I managed to bang my head against the piece during the faint. I felt like a total idiot.
"I could use a little... Miracle." ~SWIWS
#40

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:21pm

During a "preview performance" for Into the Woods at a huge library here in town all hell broke loose. At one point, my music just didn't start [we had it computerized] and I ended up singing a capella. It was awkward, to say the least...

The best was that our cow had declined to show up, so we were using this kid who I think belonged to our technical director. He was very serious about his role but wandered off about ten minutes before the witch's transformation scene, so our Baker - clever as he is - runs out into the lobby ina bout thirty seconds when it's not his scene, and grabs a huge stuffed pig wearing - I am not kidding - a striped sweater.

So he runs on carrying this HUGE pig and yells "I've the cow!" The Witch takes one look and says... "You've covered... the cow.... with COSTUMES!"

We didn't regain our composure for about a minute, and we kept breaking into giggles for the rest of the night. The director wasn't pleased... to say the least.
#41

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 5:22pm

I love being a writer for the simple reason that if something goes wrong on the stage, I can leave the theatre!

I don't mind being blamed for bad writing if I'm not there. Hated being a performer dealing with bad writing and the audience blames you for it. hehehe

It's nice to stop by the theatre every once in awhile to check in on the actors, have a drink at the bar and leave before anyone throws something at you...

Of course, it's also great when an audience member walks out of the theatre humming one of your tunes.
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#42

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 7:58pm

I was playing Emile in South Pacific in my school. Right after some enchanted evening i screwed up the dialogue: the line is: "I am older than you, if we have children I will die while they are still young. you could afford to take them back to america if you wish. think about it."

I said, "I am older than you. If we have children they will die, for I will die. You could afford to take them back to America if you wish. Think about it."
#43

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/17/06 at 8:11pm

In junior high, I was in a school Broadway revue. Our finale was "One" from ACL, and we all had these silver top hats that were part of the choreography. Well, right before the number, I couldn't find my top hat. I said I wasn't going to go on, and the girl next to me goes "Just blend in!" I was on the FRONT ROW of dancers; like I could "blend in". She convinced me to go on, so there I was dancing and moving my hands as if there was a silver top hat in them. Everyone around me was cracking up, and so was I. Halfway through the song someone offstage found the hat and they passed it along my row. Everyone was still laughing at curtain call. Ah, good times...
#44

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Posted: 7/21/06 at 10:49pm

Bounce! Um, I mean Bump!

EDIT: the bump was due to recent spamming... (now it looks, like I'm doin' the same--)
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx

Updated On: 7/21/06 at 10:49 PM

#45

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/22/06 at 1:15am

While we were doing a production of Les Miz, I was about to enter (Thenardier) and the turntable broke before I got out there so as the customers were coming in they didn't have any chairs to sit on because the chairs and tables were still in up stage and like in the dark. Luckily before we got too far one of the bigger guys on our stage crew came out with some sort of metal rod or pipe and pushed the truntable by just pushing it. At intermission (which ended up being 33mins long) the crew came out on the stage and started to pull up all the boards to get to the cable underneath and reattach it properly.
(SAME PRODUCTION, different night)- This wasn't to do with me by it still was still embarrassing...Its the beggar scene where Valjean and Cosette are spotted by Javert and then he sings Stars...anyway Valjean enters and starts walking around with no Cosette to be seen. And I would have to say that this scene is REALY crucial for the of the show because this is when Marius bumps into Cosette and there love blossoms from that point. Well when I get offstage I find out that she was just in the back watching T.V. with some of the other cast members...I couldn't even beleive it. Lets just say when Marius sings the line about how he saw a ghost after returning to the meeting with the other revolutionaries he ACTUALLY did! hahaha
#48

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/22/06 at 5:08am

Picture it, NYC, 2003, CABARET @ Studio 54, Broadway...I was swinging on for the part of Rudy the sailor, I'm supposed to run out on stage with my pants around my ankles while blowing a party whistle and yelling "Fritzy, where are you?"...well, wardrobe had forgotten to sew the fly shut on my vintage boxer shorts, and sure enough I run out there when my****AND balls bounce OUT of my boxers for ALL to see. It worked for the show but the audience and cast onstage got more than they expected that night.
"The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not..."
#50

re: What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?

Posted: 7/22/06 at 11:13am

Fiddler on the Roof, this past March at my school.

It's curtain call after a mini-preview infront of half the school. Me being me, I wasn't paying attention and when my friend jokingly told me to go, I went. And I ran on stage at the wrong moment to bow with these two kids I hate the most in the world. Being a jerk, I ran right back off stage. The whole school laughed.

I tend not to think about it.

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