Theater oooops's?

Question

I want to hear all the awful or hilariouse things that have happened to you or your cast during a play or musical. Listen to mine it'll get you. Less than a month away from opeing night of Emma. Well our Frank Churchill has come down wiht mono. Our Mr. Knightly and Mr. Woodhouse were forced to swich roles do to some bad behavier of the ex-Mr. Knightly and our dear Mr. Elton has been forced to resign as his grade-point average was well not average. At our school grades come first as like most. But were're pulling it together and luckily our brave director hasn't killed anyone.... yet.
Come I won't to hear your stories!

Answer 1

During the show "Into the Woods," I was kicked in the face by Little Red Riding Hood while coming out of the wolf's stomach. I was the grandmother. I did the rest of the show with a throbbing pain in my eye and after the show went to the doctor and had to wear an eye patch for two weeks because of the injury.

During "Fiddler On The Roof," I played the part of Fruma Sara but also was in the chorus so I had a very quick change. The third night of the show my velcroed skirt for the wedding scene did not fasten enough and the skirt slowly fell down during a dance number. After the show an audience member came up to me and told me he loved the way I stayed in character even though my skirt was falling off. The next night the costume designer pinned me into the skirt.

Answer 2

Lots of cute stories here. Here's mine. The show was "Guys & Dolls" and I was Lt. Brannigan. Every night of tech week (and the first two performances) I was late for my first entrance, because I was also in the chorus and the changing and travel time was just a few seconds too long.
By the third performance, I had figured out a shortcut and was in position early. So early, in fact, that there was over a page of dialogue to go before my entrance. Once I was onstage and realized that I was too soon, there was nothing to do, but to cross the stage, eyeing the other characters suspicioulsy as my character would do, and exit on the other side. What makes this doubly embarrasing is that I was telling other cast members about this tremendous goof and ...you guessed it! It made me late for my entrance. Again.

Answer 3

Here's a few:

In "Into the Woods" in the scene where the stepmother is cutting off Lucinda's heel, she cut off the fake heel piece like she was supposed to, but it rolled across the stage and landed at the prince's feet.

In Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, the candyman was pushing her cart through the audience to get to the front of the theatre while saying her opening lines, and she hit a bump on the floor and a few pieces of candy, some real and some fake, fell out. A kid picked a Reeses up and began to eat it. Another kid saw this, so he picked up a piece, but it was made of styrofoam. He bit into it and you can imagine his surprise.

Also in CatCF, I (Mrs. Gloop) was waiting outside of the theatre in this hallway with Augustas for a scene where we came in one of the doors and were interviewed. Augustas was playing his gameboy and I was listening to the dialogue between the two reporters so we wouldn't miss our cue. I knew that there was still another 7 or 8 minutes or so, so I didn't really pay that much attention. One of the reporters skipped everything, mostly, and suddenly I heard our cue line, so I told Augustas to put his gameboy away because we had to go out NOW. He paused it and stuck it in his pocket and went on. Thankfully, the music stopped before any of the audience could hear it.

Not as much of an oops, but at the end of ITW I had about 5 seconds to put my shoe back on after trying to fit into Cinderella's slipper. That's not enough time to buckle a character shoe, especially when the stepmother won't put the stool down, so I had to perform "Ever After" while struggling to keep my shoe on during the choreography.

Answer 4

For a Cinderella show, a classmate stepped out of the play to focus on schoolwork ... 10 days before openning night. I said I would help out and learnt the songs, lines and just stepped into the character, bringing a funnier side to things than first expected.

My role was the Ugly step sister, and yes, I'm a guy

Answer 5

During my HS's production of the Wizard of oz, we used fire extinguishers for the Wizard scene to make "smoke" funnels. After the scene, one of the extinguishers got knocked over and went off tearing a huge hole in the curtain.

During the Importance of Being Ernest AND our musical Titanic one of the cast members posted pornographic images where only the actors could see them and the audience could not. It made staying in character pretty interesting.

Also in "Ernest" one of the scenes had a cake in it. Each night the cast members would write naughty things in the icing before it was used on stage.

Answer 6

In our local production of '...Forum' a few years ago, our Pseudolus got laryngitis about a week before opening night (he recovered in time) and our Hysterium lost *his* voice just before our second weekend run started.

A classic 'oops' for your collection:
In the opera 'Tosca', the title heroine is supposed to commit suicide by throwing herself from the roof of the Castel Sant'Angelo, where the final act takes place. Well, in one performance at the Metropolitan Opera, the soprano playing Tosca (I think it was Grace Moore) took the planned leap down behind the set. Unfortunately, the mattress on which she landed was too springy, and she was seen to pop back up again!

Answer 7

~i was supposed to jump over this "rock", but the equipment ppl put it out too far forward, so when i jumped over it...i landed in the pit....on top of a trombone. yea, it hurt.

~my friends were supposed to do this big, steal the show, sword fight scene. well, they were in the middle of it, and steve threw his sword in the air (planning on catching it), but it got caught in the beams.......and fell down later in the show.

~there was this great singer in one of our shows, but opening night, she got larangitis(?). so she did all the acting, but had to lip sink while someone in the pit sang and talked her lines.

~my partner in a play forgot all his lines every night cuz of stage fright, so i had to say them all. that was actually pretty funny....afterwards.