Your Most Embarassing Theatre Moment — Page 3

omg I feel so bad for you guys!

When my friend and I were in the city looking for a show to see at TKTS and this young guy walked up to us and asked if we wanted tickets to All Shook Up. i said, "oh no thanks it looks really bad."

he just kind of blinked and walked away and I heard him go up to the people next to us and say, "Hi, I'm from All Shook Up and I have some extra tickets to today's performance..."

oh. my. god. I felt sooooo bad!! but hey, it DID look really sucky.


Everytime I meet Gary Beach something embarassing happens with the camera but he's so nice about it.

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I did Thoroughly Modern Millie in February at my school (I was in the ensemble). We had one set piece that our director had told us repeatedly was ridiculously unsafe - the wall that served as the lobby of the Hotel Priscilla (on one side) and the laundry room (on the opposite). When it was flown in, two techies would crawl onto the 16-foot turntable that they had built and attach it to hinges with metal pins. The fly crew would let in enough slack so that it would be able to be turned on the turntable and serve as two sets. The cord would twist as the turntable turned and they would turn it the opposite way, detach the wall from the hinges, and fly it out.
Anyway, during the LAST scene of the LAST show, the techs in charge of the turntable got kind of lazy and TURNED IT THE WRONG WAY. We were all waiting to come on for the finale, and I was standing in the wings behind the tech teacher's daughter (who was in the show) and she looks at the wall, just about to be disconnected from the hinges and flown out, and says, "Oh my God, it's the wrong way." The flycord had been twisted twice instead of being untwisted. So we have no choice but to walk out as they fly it out, and the 300-pound-wall begins untwisting itself MIDAIR AS THERE ARE 50 KIDS WALKING UNDER IT. Anyway, it just started spinning faster and faster until someone had the presence of mind to grab it. It was PROBABLY the scariest moment of my life... hahaha but in retrospect it was freaking hilarious. The band director had this terrified look on his face (probably mirroring all of us) and then he just gives this enormous cue to start the music for the finale. It was crazy. It was a shame it kind of killed the end of the closing show (although most of the audience had no idea what was going on).

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I was just reminded of another one of mine.
Again in Guys and Dolls, during the crapshooters dance there was this one point where we all got in a line, and we passed back our hats. What we did was at intermission we would put our hats in a pile in the order that we were in the line, so when they were passed back we would get our hats. Then the first person in line would take the first hat and put it on his head, then the second person took the hat off and put it on theres while the first person put another hat on his head, and then the third person took it off the second persons hat and put it on their head, until we had 14 hats going down the line. Well my hat was on the 8th count (we were going a hat a count, and it was going very fast) and I had to pass back six hats. Well it started and it was going fine, until I don't know what happened nor do I remember it, but I stopped. I all of a sudden wake up, and realize that the kid in front of me had three hats on his head, because I never took them off! It was awful.

Edit: Also, during another show I did another cast memeber accidently smacked me in the genital area with a bottle of whisky, and I jumped a mile high and went AHHHH real loud in the mic, and that was the night it was taped.

Updated On: 6/1/06 at 10:49 PM

I too have an embarassing moment.
I was doing a production of PIPPIN and I was cast as the young boy Theo. In the final scene, I am stripped of my big dress-cloak thing. The stage crew was supposed to leave it on the side of the stage for me to pick it up and wear it for bows. But, on the second night, one of the crew took my costume and put it back in the dressing room! I ended up going out for bows in Charlemagne's huge cape, but it didnt cover much. It was pretty embarassing!

My friend went ot the bathroom during a dress rehearsal, and her mic was still on. So we heard this SUPER loud toilet flush out of no where and we had to stop the run for probably 3 minutes.

John Owen-Jones (london phantom) once got an erection during a performance.

haha neddyfrank, i lost a shoe durring havanna

i was playng muff potter in the long island premier of tom sawyer and i had alot of family in the audience and it was opening night and i had jitters and when i got out i forgot one of my lines and just couldn't remember it so the man who played injun joe was add libbing and said"give me some kind of money" and so i went " money yeah thats right i forgot thats what i give you" I was so embarraseed.

Thesbijean's Cosette molestation made me laugh out loud. It's going to take all my self-control to not relay the story to everyone I know for the next week or so. XD (Most people I know don't care quite as much about theatre, so the set-up would take too long for the pay-off to be quite as amusing to them. Sads. ;_

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When I was a kid I had a horrible lisp, so durring my one solo of this play no one could understand me. People were laughing the whole time. And I cried at the end because of embarrasment, only a dress rehersal (thank god)
reminder: I was only 6.

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Updated On: 7/26/06 at 09:07 PM

Meeting Sutton Foster:

Sutton Foster: Hello!
My sister: Hi, my sister's obsessed with you!

First time my family saw LesMis (second time for me) after Bring Him Home, the house is going crazy with clapping and cheering. My mom gives him a thumbs-up from the back of the balcony.

Stage door Chicago Wicked - Mom to Ana Gasteyer - "I loved your work on SNL!"

****MOST EMBARASSING THING EVER***** Me, first time I saw LesMis, Valjean was understudied (by Bart Shatto, who I still think is amazing). I read the understudy insert, knowing nothing about the show. I turn to the girl next to me from school and said "Eh, I hope this Jean Valjean guy isn't IMPORTANT or anything." (I'm embarassed to say that was ever me.)

In real theatre - one of my friends had a quick change on stage, the tech's brought the lights up too quickly. There's Lisa in her underwear, lights full, and guess what - its dress rehearsal, all the parents are taping. Beautiful.

I saw Spamalot and my cousin Amanda was so hammered! So, she was talking to everyone around her in the theater and even to the actors onstage, mid song!! I was so embarassed and she laughed at things that weren't even funny. I will never see another show with her again!

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