Whats the most embarrasing thing you've ever done in a play before a live audience?

Question

I've tripped over my lines, things on stage, almost completely ate it once.

Answer 1

Forgetting my lines & falling off the edge of the stage

Answer 2

I was supposed to throw a newspaper into the audience but I didn't throw it hard enough and it landed in the orchestra pit instead. Hit a cymbal and knocked it over. Scared the bejeezus out of the musicians. Forgot the lyrics to the entire rest of my song. Cracked the audience up, though.

That was onstage. Worst thing I ever did behind the scenes was (while stage managing) giving the go-ahead to start our show to the sound and light crew before the actors had taken their places. We had five minutes of music with a big, empty stage while I went flying backstage and shrieked, "YOU'RE ON! YOU'RE ON! GO GO GO GO GO!!!!!!"

Ah, theatre! No other field has horror stories quite so wonderful. =)

Answer 3

I was playing Oberon in a wild, rock-and-roll version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." In our production, Oberon and Titania were the King & Queen of ROCK; my costume consisted of spandex tights, a leather motorcycle jacket, knee-high leather boots, lots of rings and other jewelry...and a spiky blond wig that reached to my waist.

One night, in the scene in the forest with the young lovers, where I realized that Puck had charmed the wrong person, I gave an angry toss of my head...and the wig flew off! I just sort of stared at it, as it flew across the stage and landed in a furry head. The audience was dead silent, waiting to see what I was going to do. What COULD I do? I walked over, picked it up, slapped it back on my head, and spoke my next line, which just happened to be:

"This is thy negligence!" The place erupted in laughter, and the show went on.

After that night, I started pinning that thing on REAL good.

Answer 4

I was in a spanish play after taking four years of spanish in high school. I was the only one who had my lines down on the night of the performance and it was impossible to ad-lib because we didn't speak or understand enough of the language to ad-lib it. What's worse, our teacher had invited all these spanish-speakers from the community to this "Language theatre" event he was so proud of. About 10 seconds into the performance everyone froze and started saying "Si" and "que?" over and over again. My best friend (female) was playing a fat plantation owner (male) who smoked a cigar throughout the entire thing. When the play bombed she started doing a jig and pretended the cigar was a blunt and kept using the fire prop to "get high". I ran off the stage sobbing, later to be found in the parking lot.
I did "Pygmalion", the play "My Fair Lady" is based on and I (Eliza Doolittle) had to get pissed at Brian (my ex, playing Henry Higgins), storm off the stage into another room offstage, grab his slippers, return to the stage and throw them at him. The "offstage room" was a closet accessible from onstage and the prop people were supposed to put the slippers in there. So I stormed into this closet-room, which was small and pitch-black, groaped arounds for the slippers, but couldn't find them. So I slipped off my own white pumps and tried to hide the fact that they weren't slippers. When I returned to the stage I was crying out of embarrassment and when Brian saw the high-heels I was going to throw in his face he quipped, "My what feminine slippers, are you sure they're not yours?" A door stage-right "magically" flew open and the actual slippers came flying on stage. I had to trip over my dress to put my shoes back on and then tramp over the the other side of the stage to get the real slippers...

Answer 5

At one point in a show I had to get all flirty with another cast member (who all the characters were supposed to think was a guy, but later revealed that she was a girl) and she just kind of acted like I was weird and all that. It was embarrassing at first, but by the time performances came around I was so used to it that I made it really big and stuff.

Answer 6

During a choir concert, I was standing at the end of the riser, and I lost my balance and fell off the end.

In Drama class, we were performing a production, and I said a line where it was something like "And you need to wait for the sound of the whistle...." & then there was suppose to be a whistle go off from backstage. Well, no one did the whistle, so I was up onstage TRYING to whistle, when I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WHISTLE & it was embarassing.

My shoe fell off during a musical.

& that's about it.

<3

Answer 7

When I was much younger, I was in a selected version of the Tempest. I was supposed to be describing a male character "He's so.......so..." and I forgot the rest of the line. another actor offstage mouthed "improvise!" So without even thinking I said "He's so improvised!" without realizing what I had done until after I had said the line!

Answer 8

Me and my friends have been caught on a similar time as following this guy that looked like Chris Donathon of The Medic Droid by skill of his maximum suitable friends that worked at Hallmark. Me and one in each of my friends have been mortified, however the different replaced into all "you be attentive to HIM?" between the girls says: 'he's been my maximum suitable buddy on account that kindergarten' the different females says' he's my roommate' then the guy says 'I geared up his mattress!' ..... in basic terms a question, could YOU tell 3 females tailing your buddy which you geared up his mattress? hahaha. Then whilst the excited lady's mom got here to %. us up, we've been speaking approximately him, yet stated 'cupcakes' somewhat of his call so her mom does no longer finally end up. We have been in simple terms joking around and so the daughter says 'i pick those cupcakes in MY room!'. Her mom turns around and says "I extra perfect the he no longer discover cupcakes on your room! If I do, i visit discover them, placed them in my mouth, chew them, swallow them, digest them, sh*t them out, and flush them down the lavatory." The daughter replaced into now mortified as me and my different buddy have been biting our tongues so we does no longer burst out guffawing. She had NO concept what we've been speaking approximately and it replaced into ideal!

Answer 9

Forgetting over half of my lines...and I was one of the leads in the play. The shortest, and last, play I ever did.

Answer 10

My voice gave out in the middle of a solo.