What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you on stage?- Page 3

[noloversfool]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 12:02pm

I was Vi Moore in Footloose in my last show. It was the sunday matinee and by then everyone is pretty much tired. So I said my cue line for 'Can You Find It In Your Heart' and I waited to hear the opening notes from the keyboardist.

Nothing. I just stood there staring at my 'hubby' for a few seconds and I had to start a capella. It was so terrifying. I thought I forgot a line or something. But thank god it was my music director not me.

[Phantour]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 11:33pm

It was my first college production and I was in Paderewski's Children, a play that my director wrote about the famous Polish politician/musician Ignacy Paderewski. Well it was a scene where an army troop stationed in Buffalo, NY was putting on a show with about the life of Paderewski, using a marionette to impersonate Paderewski, for him to view when he was visiting and some dancing girls near by as well. As one of the soldiers it was my job to be in charge of the curtain on our small platform stage built on the actual stage. It was opening night and I was strugging with the "boot camp" I had to go through for 6 weeks prior to the show and getting the marches and commands down so I was really nervous. Well anyway I was closing the curtain for a transition of a scene of this mini play and I pulled on the rope too hard and half of the curtain fell down. I panicked inside but I ran to it to tried to fix it, which was hopeless so I pulled it as close to the center as possible so there wasn't a big gap. Then I smiled at the dancing girls watching our performance and sheepishly returned to my seat. But since we were amateurs in the theater world, only being soldiers, people I worked with said it looked like it fit the show and the audience members probably didn't notice a thing. But being my first college show, I didn't think I ever get cast again after that.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 11:42pm

Picture it Anything Goes..... Well during Blow Gabriel Blow i was fortunate to do triple time steps on top of a fake piano in the "lounge" set. Opening night i am doing my buffalos and falaps and then it happens i do my first tripple and then the second and the i fall off the back of the piano. I was sooooooo embaressed.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 3:00am

I am a very hard person to embarass onstage. And what I have to relate didn't embaarass me at the time, but it has subsequently.

I was Molina in a production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman: the musical" and our director had this thing that he loved to do called "Word of the Day", a word or phrase that someone had to seamlessly work into the script of the show. It was o.k. when it started, but as the run went on they got more and more sexual and/or obscene.

Well, it's the last performance. It's the scene that leads into "Mama, It's Me". After, the bit where I'm getting the shopping list from Mama and giving it to the Warden, the guard says to the other guard, "Don't write his mother's chicken, write his Personal Satisfaction Device. (that day's word of the day) He probably needs it." The actor playing the Warden and I just stare at him for a second and proceed with the scene.

The embarassing thing about that incident is that that night is the night that we videotaped the show for our archives. And whenever I show that to someone, when it comes to that scene, I die a thousand deaths when that bit comes up.

[HeartandMusic]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:13am

I had just finished a two hour long volleyball practice and had to rush over to my middle school for a choir concert that I was in. I didn't have time to eat or drink a whole lot of water, and I was exhausted. We (the choir) had to stand onstage for about forty minutes, under stage lights, etc... Well, during this one girl's solo (she was singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") I passed out onstage. In front of about two hundred and fifty people. Now I think of it as a really funny story, but at the time I was mortified.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 7/27/06 at 2:50pm

I was playing Hot Blades Harry in a production of Urinetown last month.
At the beginning of Act II on the opening night performance, somehow our Hope's head mic fell off, she doesn't have that much to say in the first scene of Act II anyway so we were okay. Before Bobby and Old Ma Strong come in we put a noose over her ("That's it she gets the rope!"). After her talk with Bobby and her reprise of Follow Your Heart, there's a blackout for the next scene, so I clipped her mic back on.
Then durring 'Tell Her I Love Her' I was supposed to take the noose off, I lifted it up over her head and noticed that I had clipped the mic over the rope! I took a few seconds to mentally freak and mutter **** in my mind, then put the noose back on her. I could hear some people in the audience doing a general "uh-oh" kinda chuckle. When Hope takes over as leader of the rebels and removes her gag and ties she just wisked the rope off and her mic went flying behind her, she just held it there until she could put it back on when we hid in the "sewers" (the blocked off first row of the audience) after We're Not Sorry.

[Robos89]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 5:41pm

Well I was playing Friedrich vonTrapp, in a regional production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC here in Miami in a professional theatre (Actors Playhouse). We used the Broadway SOUND OF MUSIC revivel costumes (they were the actual costumes worn, we rented them). Well it was the scene change right into the concert scene during the blackout. I was running onstage and tripped on the procenium. It was almost lights up so I got up and ran to my place. Throughout the beginning of the number, this pair of old women in the front were pointing and laughing. When I looked down, my lederhosen opened (basically the flap in the front that which buttons the two sides together). So it was really embarassing to have my crotch exposed, although I had a tucked in shirt and underwear on. So it wasn't so bad, but still very embarassing.