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| Please,Hello |
Beauty bloopersThings that went wrong with your show and mistakes and such. |
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| Eponine23 |
I might have missed some stuff, being in the pit and all, but there were a few mistakes during the matinees--most of them by the orchestra, according to our conductor.
-Babette's microphone kept turning off at really weird moments -Cogsworth completely forgot his lines on the tour of the castle and had to ad lib I'm sure there were more, but I think the ones I remember best are from rehearsals... |
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| jarrod001 |
The bird didnt fall in "Belle" that Gaston shoots....
Le Fou was just like WTF to the audience and it worked... Then our cogsworth decided it would be funny if when he and I (I was Lumiere) are talking about the other people in the castle that turned into things, to have someone backstage jiggle the bird out of the thingy...so when it did he said "Oh Raoul! It's happening faster with some of the others!" It was a bad idea and NOBODY got it....this made me flub a line cause my next line was something like what he had just said so I was like oh...Im turning into a candle...It was dreadful... |
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| DontDoSadnessxx |
I saw a production at a high school (a very rich high school)
where the entire face and wig fell off and the beast stares at it for a minute and screams "MY FACEEE???!?!?!" So then Cogsworth is running around "Oh my goodness, I told you Lumiere, you can't work him up like this" And lumiere is trying to put his wig back on. After they covered up and tried to continue the audience was still cracking up. So finally after ten minutes of hysterical laughing they continued. Basically the best cover in the history of theatre. |
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| ConverseSneaker |
I fell down the stairs after "Gaston". We played it off as if I drank too much which convinced the audience.
Probably more, but I forget.... |
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| lottielou22 |
Wow.  That kills me.
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| WickedToo |
That's interesting... 
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| Please,Hello |
My production goes up in March and I just can`t get over thefact that we have sold 213 tickets.I can`t go in front of a audience like that. | ||
| audreydarling |
so I was a napkin/villager/dresser for Belle and we had a whole bunch of bloopers.
the most embarassing one for me is that fact that one night the bodice of Belle's dress wouldn't zip. we tried to pin it but it kept falling....so when she finally went onstage in the finale to meet the best they didn't dance he just had to hold her back. i felt so so so bad because that was my job. 
also the silly girls would fall from time to time which was actually quite funny and then there were some missed lines. the beast had some trouble with his face a few nights as well and one night belle's mic kept going out. the best one though...one performance on of the napkins forgot her white spankies so she wore black. it mush have looked pretty funny from the audience. such an amazing show though!!! |
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| Please,Hello |
the dresser drawrs broke. | ||
| StarDreamer |
Dress rehearsal - the seamstress who made my gold dress decided not to finish it, so they pinned me into it as best they could
The minute the Beast took my arm, the dress came undone. Thank God I was wearing a white tank top and not the skin colored bodice I wore for the regular show. But the dress started coming off... the guy playing the Beast is like a brother to me, but has also had a huge crush on me for years so of course he is just totally embarrassed. We tried to do the dance.... and we're doing ok.... until the seamstress jumps onstage and decides to try to pin me in while I'm dancing! I was so embarrassed and so upset. We got done and the Beast just looks at me.... thank goodness for the makeup because I knew his face was as red as the rose! "I umm... Belle.... I umm.... don't remember my line..." It wasn't the professional thing to do, but I can't say I blame the poor guy.... if the next line had been mine, I would've said the same thing! |
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| Pannic |
The year before I attended my high school, they did 'Beauty and the Beast,' and I went to see it.
Right before the 'Mob Song,' you know how Gaston tries to kiss Belle, and she slaps him? Well... his wig came off when she slapped him. He fiddled with it for a bit, but he couldn't fix it and it fell off. After a pause, he lowered his head and said, "Now I'm nothing." |
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| hilarylove |
We opened a few nights ago and our Beast's beard was left on stage after the transformation. And Gaston's chest hair started coming off. | ||
| ConverseSneaker |
hilarylove's story reminded me of this horrible production I saw when during the fight(while Gaston and the Beast were swinging thier fists three feet away from each other) one of them knocked the little disco-ball-like object to be used during the transformation off the stage and broke it so the transformation sucked and then the beast left his monster hands onstage.
And thier Lumiere's candle blew out so he only had one hand that would light up. |
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| hilarylove |
During the finale Belle's top of the yellow dress couldn't be closed all the way so our Beast had to hold it during the whole thing (including the waltz!) | ||
| CayleeJo |
Right before "Be Our Guest" Lumiere was walking backwards out of the wings as he was swearing to Cogsworth that he hadn't taken his eyes off belle (take note that Belle is standing next to Cogsworth/Mrs. Potts directly behind Lumiere). Well Lumiere tripped on belle's bed which was still out from the previous scene, and his hat fell off. But he covered it amazingly, and went on to belle about how "Terribly sorry I am for you to see me like this Mademoiselle!". The best cover-up ever. | ||
| cheerRcker |
bloopersOur directer tapped a microphone on the floor and someone steped on it. it made a huge squeaking sound, and everybody started cracking up.Another one is when someone was in the sound room in the hallway and didnt hear when his line was some one had to run and get hime, and someone had to fill in for his line. know one noticed but the whole cast did, it was so funny. the same person forgot to get his prop, he was suppose to say something about tapping a parchment to a pole. he said something like if i had a partchement then i would tape it hear it was sooooo funny. |
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| sillygirl1 |
blog your memories!i'm doing this HUGE final project on my school's production of beauty and the beast. we had to create a blog, so spread the word and post your BATB experiences!http://beautyandthebeastexperiences.blogspot.com/ |
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| SDGmmc13 |
I haven't done the show (would LOVE to), but my old high school did it this past April. I saw it twice, and some of my friends in the show filled me in on the rehearsal bloopers:
I think that's enough for now. |
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| Matthunter05 |
I played Maurice, so here were a few of our bloopers:
WARNING, IT'S LONG! -During "Belle", townspeople dropped plastic food out of their baskets and carts and such, and rather than picking it up, they just left it onstage. -When I (Maurice) was supposed to bring my invention onstage, it would get caught on the vents on the floor and I would have to pull while Belle helped push from offstage. -While I was "working" on the invention, I would sit actual metal tools on top of it. One night I didn't sit the tool all the way on it and it fell off while Belle was saying a line and slid across the stage, thudding all the way. -My invention had an axe on it that (when a drill battery was pushed in place from the backside, out of audience view) moved in a chopping motion. The drill battery liked to get stuck and not go in all the way. There was also a smoke machine inside it that liked to not work alot. When both happened at once, I spun the bicycle wheel on the side and manually moved the axe-arm. -When I leave the stage after "No Matter What", I had a quick change from an apron over my shirt to a vest. While our Babette was taking off my apron and puting my vest on me, I am trying to get my 3x6 fixed-wheeled invention to turn around so I can take it back onstage for "No Matter What (Reprise)". The stage managers headseat cord always got caught underneath the wheels, and some nights, the invention didn't reappear for the reprise. -Babette put my vest on inside-out a few times. You could easily notice because there were big blue pockets sewn on that you only saw the outline of. -In the scene after "Me" with Gaston and the Silly Girls, one of the Silly Girls accidently knocked another's wig off. She grabbed it and started putting it back on as Gaston calmly said "I always knew she wasn't a true blonde." -I stumbled many times while being dragged out of the dungeon by the Beast. -Belle's bedroom set originally had a doorway built in, but once costumes were added to the picture, it was impossible to get a 5ft wide Mrs. Potts through a 3.5ft doorway. The doorway was built over and the characters just entered from offstage. -In "Be Our Guest", the plates had to cross paths on a 2ft deep platform while running sideways. Many little girls got hit in the face with large corrigated cardboard plates. -In "Maison de Lune", our D'Arque stood on top of a barrel-table, LeFou on his chair, and Gaston on the stage as the all 'raised their glasses high'. While getting on top of the barrel, D'Arque accidently kicked his mug off of the table and across the stage. When they all toasted, he rose his cane to cover. Also, the panties used in the wardrobe were stuffed inside Gaston's mug for one performance. -Each time Belle & I went onstage for "A Change in Me", the miniature portrait of Gaston was still sitting on the bench. As she began singing, I picked it up, looked at it, and placed it in her basket. -When the Beast is transforming back into a human, our Enchantress did the Prologue dance in reverse, accompanied by strobes and fog. One night toward the end of the run, she fell onto her back in the middle of the dance. She was a very petite girl, so from the audience, it looked like part of the dance as she didn't make a noise when she hit the stage. -When the Beast took his mask off, he was no longer wearing a microphone, as it was attatched to the mask. He had to get extremely close to Belle to sing his 'Belle look into....here before you'. -As Chip ran and jumped into Mrs. Potts arms one night, his hand caught her wig and torn it clean off. She finished the show in her wig cap. -While Belle was quick-changing into te yellow dress for the Finale, she realized her hairpiece was still on the other side of the stage from an earlier change. Unaware that her mic was already on, she said "S**T! Where's is my hair?!". To this day, we don't know if the audience heard it, but the cast sure did! -During one performance, Mad. de la Grande Bouche called in sick. We had no understudies assigned, though the older, more experienced actors had pretty much worked out in our heads who would go on for who in the event of an emergency. Mad. de la Grande Bouche was one we must have missed...our director called one of our Silly Girls (same one that's wig fell off) and asked her to go over the lines and be ready to perform the next day. She came in and not only performed the Wardrobe track, but also her Silly Girl track. We made no changes other than she didn't change into the Wardrobe dress while she was inside it, she just rolled her sleeves up, and Babette did the high pitched scream to scare LeFou in "The Battle", as the Silly Girls were in that scene. She didn't miss a beat and went straight from Silly Girl to the beautiful Madame for the finale. She was a trooper! Hope you got a laugh out of these, I sure did remembering them! |
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| Brigantine |
yes, thank you! I think this one was my favorite:
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| Matthunter05 |
Glad you enjoyed it, I thought it was quite funny. I had made the portrait myself by taking a picture from our poster (which had Belle, the Beast, and Gaston on it), cut out Gaston's picture and put it in a frame. The guy playing Gaston & I are best friends, and he had a hilarious face on the poster, so it was hard not to laugh when I saw it each night. | ||
| AGCvocalvixen |
well it was a final show prank but our lumiere wore glasses for the show (i was babette) because i believe he was incredibly blind with out them. any way the final night after lumiere is supposed to be making sure belle doesnt leave her room & he chases babette off, i had a bunch of left over feathers, so when he re-entered for the next part of the scene he was covered in feathers as if he'd been getting cozy with babette ;} | ||
| RED15 |
We didn't have too many huge bloopers except one night the beast forgot to come out during the wolf thing with Belle and the wolves performed the whole dance and she "died" OOPS
AND When Lumiere came back on before BOG we put feathers all over him to signify you know he and Babette were doing something.... lol but he had the brilliant idea to put one in his mouth, it worked every night but one when the feather got caught in his throat and he tried to deliver his line. he was like choking and couldn't get it out of his mouth, so our wonderful amazing (female/GNS*) Cogsworth took it out of his mouth and they continued, it was REALLY funny * in community theater its hard to come by good actors all the time so sometimes GNS, or Gender Non-Specific casting is very necessary |
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| Matthunter05 |
Oh, I totally forgot the two best ones!
They are from closing night: -In the scene where Belle first meets Mrs. Potts and Madame de la Grande Bouche, and she pulls the underwear out of the drawer...well, we had been using these giant white granny panties for the entire run of the show. On closing night, Belle reaches in (all three girls were in on this so it wasn't going to throw anyone off) and pulls out a petite, lacey black thong. Madame de la Grande Bouche, Mrs. Potts, and Belle all had wonderful "Oh My!"'s that night! -In the scene after "Me", where the Silly Girls are talking to Gaston, as they exited across the stage (rather than just going off as they did for the entire run), one of them grabbed one by the wig (using a theatre trick, so that her wig didn't fall off) and threw her to the ground, then ran off yelling "GASTON!". The one on the ground then crawled the rest of the way offstage. The other one (whose wig had fallen off during another performance) was running behind them, ran straight into the procenium wall, looked out to the audience and begin to cry very exagerattedly as she ran offstage. I loved our Silly Girls! |
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| lottielou22 |
At rehearsal on Tuesday night, when the servants are talking to the Beast about how Belle could be the girl to set them free, the guy playing the Beast said, "But I'm so beautiful, and she's so...." =) it was amusing.
And then when Babette says to Maurice, "Do my eyes deceive me or is this a man?" Maurice went, "Mmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm!" I don't know if these are actually funny when written down, but they were pretty hilarious at the time... |
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| Mistress |
I ushered during a children's theatre production-it was a weekend of three shows, youngest group to oldest group, and I saw the last two groups, the 2 oldest. Anyway, in the last show (the teen group) when Maurice was trying out his invention after fixing it, it didn't quite work. It was much like what Matt Hunter described but a little more low-tech I think-Axes attached to the wheels of a bike that Maurice would ride onstage. Anyway, the ax parts were supposed to move automatically after being "fixed", but something happened and it didn't work, so Maurice just went over and moved one of the axe handles manually and was like "OMIGOD IT'S WORKING". It was really rather amusing to watch...
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| jetblack_diva |
In my production we had a full night of pranks!
Gaston put a Naked wrestler in the picture frame for belle. The scene were the Beast and Belle were eating in something there that wasn't... ne ways we did it like the movie and he had to put his face in the bowl well someone put a picture of a enormous women in a bra and thong. I, belle, was dressing in the big yellow dress and the beast walked in on me. It was pitch black but i said: hey *name of actor playing beast* I'm changing here. He was so embarrassed that he ran out of there knocking over everything in his way scaring everyone on stage thinking something had went terribly wrong like the set was falling apart or something |
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| stumpy457 |
In our production three years back...
*Cogsworth's epaulette fell off, and then later, he slipped down the stairs and broke his winding handle. That was a good night. He also discovered, early int he run, that the bottom of the clock portion of his costume knocked against his crotch, so he had to wear a cup. XD *When the Beast was transforming, he threw off his mask (in the dark, like it is supposed to be)...but when the lights came up, the mask was hanging out on the edge of the castle. Great. *I played M. d'Arque in this production, and I danced on the table. And almost fell off. Several times. |
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| Teazer_9009 |
I did this show my freshmen year of high school...lemme see how many I remember...
* At rehearsal, in between the wolf attack (beginning of Act 2) and the scene just before Something There, we had a semi-low backed chair standing in for the one we would be using for the show. Our Beast decided it would be a good idea to jump over the back of the chair. Well, that failed in a major way and he ended up stradling the back of the chair. He fell to the ground in massive amounts of pain while everyone else laughed hystarically. *Same rehearsal (I think), we were right before the transformation when Belle is singing the Home reprise. At the time, we weren't sure whether we would be using a double for the Beast during the transformation or not (if we could get the equipment to fly him...brand new stage) so we were rehearsing with a double, a kid named Aaron. Aaron was on the floor with Belle. Charlie (the Beast) was supposed to be backstage doing his lines. He, for reasons unknown, wandered onto the stage. I should probably note that there is a rim of some sort at the front of the stage and when you are very close to the front, you can't see the floor of stage. The convo with our director went something like this: Director: Charlie, you're supposed to be dead! Charlie: No, Aaron's dead! Aaron: *Sits up, waves, falls back to the floor with a thud* *Our Mrs. Potts had this ridiculous habit of taking Chip off the stage and turning the table thing around so you could see the kid's feet sticking out the back.. *One of the kids who played Chip (we had two Chips...this was the good one) came in for his first rehearsal, said his first line, and every single person went "Awwwwwwwwwwww" at the same time. The poor little kid was scared to death! *Our Lumiere (who was AMAZING) was supposed to chase Babette off stage in the scene before Be Our Guest ("I've been burned by you before!"). They were supposed go off on the upper part of the castle, but something happened to the door and they couldn't go out that way and had to go down the stairs. So the first time they had to do this, he chased her off and was yelling things like "Get back here!" and laughing manically. It's not really a blooper, but he did something different every night and it was always hilarious. *Again, not really a blooper, but the Silly Girl who had the "Oh no you don't, he's mine" line was dating the guy playing Gaston at the time. Thought that was pretty funny. *You know how at the end of the movie its kind of hinted at the Mrs. Potts and Maurice are going to become a couple? (At least that's how everyone I know saw it). Yeah, in our show, Maurice and Mrs. Potts were played by siblings. Twins even. Oh were there jokes. *Kind of on the same vein as the last one, Gaston, Cogsworth, D'Arque and this other random kid were all really good friends and they would hang out back stage and do crazy stuff when they weren't on. And they would come out with insane lyric changes. They made up a completely new version of BOG. The title? Try Incest. They had a dance, too. It was scary. *One of the guy in the chorus was pretending to cut down the curtain with his knife costume. *The guy who played Gaston...wasn't that great. We were doing the mob song at rehearsal. At the same as Gaston sings "It's time to follow me," my friend half-whispers/half-sings "I need to sing on key!" About ten people on stage around her, myself included, spent the rest of the song trying not to laugh. I know it wasn't professional, but it was sooooooo funny. * Opening night, a friend of mine was talking about how he had English homework, but didn't bring it with him, because he didn't think he should. When asked why, he said he couldn't say. Another friend pipes up "Oh, you're reading MacBeth!!!!!!!" We all screamed at her, but the damage was done. Both Belle and Lumiere's mics went out, and we had THE OBOE SOLO FROM HELLLLLLLLLLLLL during the title number, and had a whole pack of chorus members, myself included, fall up a backstage ladder (to the castle) during the mob scene. None of us could get on because of where we were and a few of us were hurt. I skinned my leg, middle of my shin to my knee and ripped my rented costume. The one who caused the pileup on the ladder? MacBeth girl! I became an offical believer in the Scottish Play business after that night. I know there sooooooo many more of these, but that's all I can think of at the moment....I might be back. |
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| hamham |
When I played Cogsworth last year in BATB, we had a few mishaps.
FDR - In Scene 7 I think with the winding handle, I was saying all the "Get it off me lines!" and was complaining that no one could get it off. Then it fell off... haha. On the night with some V.I.Ps, Madame de la Grande Bouche couldn't open her cupboard doors completley. She had a rope to keep them open, but she couldn't quite put it in. As this was happening, some of the clothes fell out of her draws, and because of the size of her costume, couldn't bend down to pick them out. She then proceeded to swear with the S Word, and then was like AHH coz she swore, so pretended it was part of it and started singing an aria. She was so nervous when she came offstage and avoided the director the whole night! |
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| iLovett |
The first thing that happened was that during dress rehearsal I forgot my first entrance!  I was freaking out... My friend (who was playing Cogsworth) had to ad-lib and cover for me for a really long time. All I remember is re-entering the main backstage area and hearing her say: "Oh... where is Lumiere always running off to?"
During our Saturday matinee, the track for "Home"* didn't come on for about three minutes. Belle had to sit in her room and wait for it to come on, just looking sad and trying not to look worried (she did a great job  ). We were just about to fetch Mrs. Potts, who (trust me) is the master of ad-libbing, then the track finally came on... and we all shared a sigh of relief backstage.
(*Keep in mind that we were doing the Jr. version, so there was no orchestra; just an accompanying CD.) Then, during "Be Our Guest" on closing night, when I was leading my friend (Belle) down the steps to the dinner table, I nearly tripped... then she knocked one of the platters off the table by accident... then we started laughing. So, yeah...
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| jazzerina11 |
This was during rehearsals, but I found it funny....during Be Our Guest, Lumiere had to go offstage after tangoing with Babette, and he completely missed his next cue for whatever reason, and our girl playing Belle just kinda coughed and said Lumiere's line "Napkins sil vous plait!" to cue the napkins' dance...then Lumiere came running onstage.
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| ~Masquerade Dancer~ |
Guys, these are really funny, but I'm getting kind of scared about what will happen when it comes to our performance!
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