His Golden Eyes :: This one time at rehersal...

xweheldtheworld · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:12 am

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Amusing ones?
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Javelon · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 2:38 am

Oh god so many to pick from. Suessical is always the first to come to mind. All those little kids running around touching everything, moving stuff around, spilling paint on the set Evil or Very Mad

and of course I was the stage manager for it.
Noises Off is another one. Though this situation was kinda funny especially since it happened during the last performance. There's this scene where this one door isn't supposed to open which is downstairs and another door isn't supposed to close which is upstairs and the 'stage manager' is to come out and fix the doors. Well something happened (to this day we have no idea what) and the door downstairs wouldn't close and the one upstairs wouldn't open. But like the good actor Jeremy is he switched his line easily. Oh and our sardines were made out of bananas with vegetable oil on top of them. Yummy.
Those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head but I'll post the others when I think of them.

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koneyisland · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:29 pm

Once, when we were practicing lines for Hello Dolly the lovely lady who was playing Minnie had a line that said "That's too provocative!" but she switched it to "proactive"! We all started laughing and she had no clue!! It was FUNNY! Then in a different "mini-musical" (summer school + little kids = AHHH!!) We did the "Princess and the Pea"(or something like it!?). We did our bows and curtain call . . . one of the girls had a veil on and it fell of when she bowed so me being the "awesome" oldest kid there i went to pick it up. I SPILLED and FELL on it!! I'm graceful what can I say? My friend was also in this play so she (of course!) starts laughing at me . . . so I just sat on the ground for a while! Thats all I have for now . . .

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xweheldtheworld · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:41 pm

Haha.
Hopefully I'll have some good ones when I go back to tech next year.

In middle school, I was stage manager [good gods] for Charlie Brown. ><
Our Drama/Tech teacher had the brilliant [ Rolling Eyes

] idea that we should have little lights and stand on things and be 'fireflies'.
Me, ever so graceful at 14, on opening night, stood on a bench behind the scrim [evil!] and nearly fell right through it because I leaned over too far.
I could've died AND destroyed the production at the same time!

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koneyisland · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:44 am

Ha Ha ^^^
I have another. When we were practicing "When the Parade Passes By" (for Hello Dolly) we had to do this INSANE flip/roll over your dance partners back. NOBODY could do the thing right! But our "wonderful" choreographer wanted us to "keep trying". All the girls in the dance HATED it, we never did it to our full ability because of that dang flip thing! A lot of girls got little injuries (bruised legs and other body parts, twisted ankles, etc.). So, in the LAST DRESS REHEARSAL we had until the first show, one of the girls gets KICKED IN THE FACE by a person flipping!! She finally changed the move to a simpler move that wouldn't KILL anyone! Everybody was saying "Thanks for getting kick!" and she said "Happy to help!" We were so happy!! She was fine by the way just a red mark on her face. Crying or Very sad

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TopazAndIce · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:53 am

When I was in Little Shop of Horrors several years ago, we had this giant, light up sign that said "Audrey 2". One of the techies didn't tie it up right or something, and in the middle of one of the Ronnettes performances, the sign fell onto the stage missing all three of them by like a foot.

It was so funny...the audience panicked though.

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lamia · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:39 pm

oh my goodness....ok so were doing wizard of oz and i was dorothy and the little kis who were playing the munchkins...when they run around cuz the wicked witch is dead, one of th kids ranright off the stage and i had to take him to the nurse s office at our hs and it was a dress rehearsal so i walk across caampus in my plaid dress thing and my hair in ribbons with a munchkin in tow...i amost had to carry him cuz he was whining that his ankle hurt....omg i was made fun of by my friends the next day....wheres ur munchkin today stephanie? bla bla bla....bu it was kind of unny....just imagine m sanding there and a munchkin runs clear off the stage

lamia · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:45 pm

i have another one...so we were doing ummm what was it anne frank...and i was anne (what was i thinking?) and one of the lines said when i fell he picked me up of the ice when i was crying...and when we first read our lines i said ice cream and everyone starts cracking up and i had no clue what was going on and then one ofmy friends pointed itout and i turned bright red and was laughing so hard i had teaers coming out of my eyes cuz i felt like an idiot...the director threatened to recast me ifi didnt get serious and so i tried to pull it together even though he couldnt recast me, he didnt have that authority...and when i was reading id start laughing out of no were and everyone was like wats so funny...cuz when i get the giggles i get them and cant stop...it was positively horrific...

he picked me up off of the ice cream when i was crying

good god i still cant believe i said that

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:02 am

Oh, I have a hilarious story. So my school was doing a musical called "The Boyfriend." Me and my best friend were singing a duet together. During the duet, our characters were at a masquerade. So my BFF comes out in this horribly made clown costume, because she's supposed to be dressed as a clown called Pierriette.
Right before we start our song, I'm supposed to say to her, "Polly, you look charming." So right before I say that she whispers to me, "I look like an idiot." And so I'm already on the verge of laughing. I say my line and see her trying to hold back unstoppable giggling.
Before I continue this story, you should know that me and BFF have that common friend disorder where if one of us starts laughing, the other one of us starts laughing and then we can't stop. So I lead her over to this table where we sit down to sing this long song. And so I start the song off, and I'm laughing while I'm singing, almost to the point where I'm missing some of the lyrics cuz I can't sing cuz I'm laughing to hard. And the whole time I'm singing, my BFF is sittting across from me shaking with laughter at my laughing and missing lyrics in between fits of laughter. This only makes me laugh all the more.
By the time my BFF comes into sing with me, we're both cracking up, and mind that we are the only two people on stage during this song. And we're laughing while we're singing. And we're missing lyrics. Come the end of the song, there's one note that we hold for a few meausures in harmonization, and neither of us can hold that note cuz we're staring at eachother and laughing our asses off at eachother.
The song ends, and our musical director goes, "What's wrong? Did my pants fall down or something?" And he says this in a serious voice. And we both are like, "No, no, its nothing. Sorry." It was the best stage moment I've ever had.

xweheldtheworld · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:04 am

I didn't actually work on Romeo and Juliet, but I saw the finished product and Romeo was the best creeper ever.
It was set around the school so he's climbing poles and hand rails and stuff and while he was hanging off the side, I was like, 'He's a monkey. What the hell is this?' and my friend said he was Spiderman.
The balcony scene is completely inappropriate for laughter.
I'll step away from him when I pass him in the halls now...

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TheTwilightMoonlight · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:13 pm

One time somebody did this HUGE sneeze on stage and then there was this little patch of flem in the middle of the stage. Everybody refused to clear it up so we had to rehearse without a stage for a day. It was pretty funny.

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lamia · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:33 pm

lol...u guys club rush finally happened! im in drama yayayayayay!!!!!! been way too long......since before summer zomg! and so im back in drama....first meeting monday! yayayay im excited

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mandytsagafan · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:36 pm

I stage managed for a show called Torch Song Trilogy and there was this scene were I had to place a chair onstage for an actor's use in a monologue which he had to use the chair throughout the whole scene, and during one of the performances I went to place the chair but it wasn't there and I ended up having to lengthen the time of the scene change just because one of the actors moved the chair prior to the scene. It was HORRIBLE. I was very upset.

Nikki Cullen · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:14 am

I did the Nutcracker every year. One year when I was playing in the party scene, one woman had to faint [fake] and this dude caught her and though she really fainted so he started yelling in the middle of the show:
"Stop stop! She's fainted!"
Everyone just stopped and freaked out, then the audience freaked out and she just stood up because it was a staged faint and everyone felt dumb... We laughed about it after though.

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xweheldtheworld · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:36 am

Haha.
Good actress.
I don't really like doing dance shows.
The dancers are difficult to work with and their instructors/choreographers are a nightmare. ><
We're still in high school and some of their rehearsals go from 2pm to 9 or 10.
The teachers are insane.
Oh, and let's not even start on the horrors of rolling and unrolling dance floors.

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