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

Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 1:12 am

Horror stories?
Amusing ones?
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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.

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 . . .

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!

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

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.