Wicked Tonight Jan 8th Major Flub :)

I saw WICKED tonight for the 3rd and final time.. got tickets for christmas to see Taye and while the show was wonderful tonight,full house and the leading ladies/taye gave fab performances... Kristin was laughing almost the entire show and then the 2nd act comes where taye swings in on the tarzan rope and throws the broom to idina..he missed idina and hit a guard, the entire audience BURSTS out laughing and taye looked mortified so Idina started to laugh and then kristin grabs Idinas witch hat and puts it over her face...idina then goes "CUT!!!"and did the motion with her hands like one of those movie thingies... and taye proceeds to take the broom and put it back where it was at the start of the scene and they did the entire scene over again with major flubbed lines... Kristin could not stop laughing..they tried to get serious again yelling but then, Idina starts to laugh and Kristin threw Idina her witch hat goes yells "JUST GO!!!" if i didnt know better, i'd say they were having a real oz dust backstage lol... It was a great flub though but, heard some very mixed reviews from people around me.

Updated On: 1/8/04 at 11:29 PM

that's the kinda stuff that i always wish would hapen the 2nd time i see a show....SOOOOO FUNNY!

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I would have laughed and winced at the same time, if I saw that!

I hate seeing when actors handle those things badly. It's horrifingly funny...but I'm not too sure if I'd want to see that at a Broadway show.

Updated On: 1/8/04 at 11:49 PM

When is Taye leaving?

That is one FEISTY homosexual

Equus..



you ain't seen nothing yet......

he he he he. Copeman naughty boi

I agree that would be entertaining for someone who's seen the show before but I feel bad for the first time $100 seat people:o

I always love little flubs but that kinda sucks for the audience bc its kind of an important part of the show...oh well i still LOVE Idina, Cheno, and Taye!

I was there last night as well and was majorly distracted by Kristin's constant laughing, to the point where she couldn't finish songs. The first time I saw the show happened to be when Kristin was out sick in November, so I saw her understudy and though Kristin is clearly better all around, it was a much different show for me. It seems more Elphaba-centered without Kristin (which I think I enjoyed more). Perhaps I would have appreciated it more if there weren't at least 3 ocassions when Kristin couldn't sing because of her laughter.

Everybody seemed to be off last night, Carole Shelley lost her blocking, Taye was flat on several notes (more charismatic than Norbert, but not particularly a great singer and forced Idina to sing in a totally different key during their duet), Defying Gravity was somehow less emotional than I remembered it the first time (but Idina kept clearing her throat, so I wondered if she was getting sick), Joel Grey flubbed a line and of course the big broom flub.

I might have to see it again when everyone is on all cylinders to get a true feel for the way the show should run.

Not to make excuses for the performers in this situation, although it is pretty damn funny, yet unprofessional...I have been in a situation such as this during a performance, and although you might have seen them laughing and not having the ability to pull themselves together, it could be a case of nerves and embarrassment that caused them to have reacted that way.

I was doing a staged reading in the past year, and in a moment that was supposed to be very intense and serious between another actor and myself, I flubbed a line somehow...I guess getting so caught up in the emotion, and the actor I was speaking to started to snicker, and contort his face in the funniest expressions trying to hold it together. I tried to continue and ignore, but then I couldn't take it anymore, and we both laughed through the rest of the scene. Although I was praying to God that I could pull myself together, and combination of thinking, "Well, I'd might as well let it out now that I have already snickered and lost control to the point the audience has already seen it....", and the fact that I was embarassed beyond belief that I allowed myself to break character during a serious moment and professional production, all I could think about the rest of that night was guilt that I broke character in the back of my mind and that I had cheated the audience.

When an actor is distracted by thoughts such as those, who knows to what extent it might affect their performance. For me, I had gotten so sidetracked and nervous throughout the performance, that I had forgot lines, and lyrics, and stammered throughout the reading. The fact that I had my script near me was no help. It was all nerves and guilt affecting me. So who knows? Maybe Kristen and Co. might have felt very bad about what happened, but didn't know who to handle a situation that was out of their control.

SH*T happens.


Cheers,
The Balladeer

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Updated On: 1/9/04 at 10:35 AM

You're more forgiving than I am. I saw it once and would love a partial rebate for the ridiculous amount of money they charge for a show that mostly does not work. If the two good aspects of the show (Kristin and Idina) were clearing their throats and one half of the show was laughing all the way through it, I would be livid and never plan on going back.

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Maybe they feel "Nathan & Matthew cut up all the time and the audience devours it. By golly, if they can do it, SO CAN WE!"

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