show bloopers — Page 2

the other night at RENT during "Happy New Year" Harley's camera slipped out of his hands and landed in the lap of an audience member in the 2nd row.

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Were you there for that?

Some first-hand info:
http://theguter.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-wasnt-on-stage-when-fall-occurred.html
http://jerseyboysblog.com/?p=1700

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Yes, I was. I just sat there stunned like the rest of the audience wondering if Erich was fine. There must have been a mad scramble backstage but the show went on smoothly after an announcement of substitutes, although it was hard to get back into the flow of the show with a Bob Gaudio who was suddenly of a completely different looks and personality. It must have been nerve-wracking for Eric Gutman to get into character that late in the show. He got a well-deserved applause at the end. It was definitely one of those unpredictable experiences that makes the theater an adventure for both actors and theatergoers.

I was talking to BWNUT, actually...

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I thought of yesterday's jump rope blooper as soon as I saw the thread. Nikki covered it so well and made it hilarious.

Another Blonde blooper I saw happened during the court room scene. I can't remember the exact moment, but there was a girl about three rows behind me from the front of the orchestra with a particularly "interesting" laugh best defined as a cackle. She did it when no one else did and Laura Bell had to stop herself, put her hand over her face to not laugh, then jumped back into it. My friends and I were talking to two cast members afterward and one said, "How about Cackly McCackler?"

Yeah, April's rope also got caught up last night and she tried to get back into the choreography but when she couldn't she just ran off stage with her jump rope since she was on the end anyway. haha.

Here's Laura Bell Bundy's shoe flying off in to the audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKgVT_qflwY&feature=related

This happened in the sunday Dec 16 evening performance, the same night the jumprope went flying into the audience in "Whipped Into Shape".

There was this young kid in the auditorium and in the scene right before "Take It Like A Man" Elle calls Emmet a butt-head. This kid instantly repeated the word "butt-head" and blurted it out so loud and clear that the whole audience heard it - as did the actors as well! Christian Borle was struggling not to laugh, Laura Bell Bundy kept it together a bit better. Borle turned his eyes to the floor, LBB kept looking into the audience as if she was deep in her thoughts. The audience just roared with laughter! LBB ad-libbed something, I couldn't hear what she said cause I was laughing myself. After a while Borle tried to continue the scene with his line "I can't believe you called me that! No one has called me a butt-head since 3rd grade!" LBB just lost it and said "Yes they have!" and cracked up. Which made Borle lose it too. Eventually, after he and LBB - and the audience! - had calmed down, Borle just smiled and said "Where are we?!", LBB replied "I have no idea!! Let's go!!" and they just walked around the stage and continued the show.

After the curtain calls as LBB made a speech about the Broadway Cares fund raising (it was the last night!), after she had asked for the jumprope back, the kid blurted out something again(!!) and LBB looked where the kid was sitting and laughed and said "Oh my god, you're The Butt-Head Kid, aren't you!?! Honey, you made my day!!!"

At the matinee of legally blonde on 1/5 during the scene where paulette is quizzing elle in her room, elle like stepped and her shoe was like falling off and she was like "oh! i almost lost m'shoe." then her shoe flew off a few feet in front of her and she said something like "ah, i did lose m'shoe!!" and she picked up up and made this really funny face and kind of hopped around putting it on for a few seconds as the rest of the scene played out. the people with me didn't even notice that it was a blooper she played it out real well and it was pretty funny too.

i love the butt head story.
i was also at the 1/5 matinee too and did reconize the blopper and no one around me noticed it either. LBB is great when something goes wrong big or just a tad bit. i was wishing though of another whipped into shape blopper though.

When I saw Rent on tour in Philly last week Heinz Winkler made two VERY noticable mistakes.
The first was during One Song Glory he repeated the lyric "One song, a song that rings true. Truth like a blazing fire. An eternal flame" and then was lost until "Time flies, and then no need to endure anymore."

And, I'm not sure if this one was his fault or not, but he played the opening chords to "Your Eyes" then sang the first lyrics, and then there was silence. And I'm in the first row and I look over at the music director and he's waving his hands at the guitarist in a way that said "Larry! Wake up!" So, they started the song from the top.
Also, Paul introduced himself as Gordon because Gordon was not yet onstage, but the backstage of the Academy of Music is massive, so I don't blame the actor for getting lost.

Also, this is my favorite blooper ever.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Blq_6VomgA

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I got the not so legal dvd of that LB performance when the shoe flew off.I must have watched the whole show about 3 times before i finally realized what happened lol.She saved it so well though and the end of the song with the note and the jump was great

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