[The Duchess of Mint]

Dear Musicals.Net Posters,

If you have any disaster/ mistake/ prank stories which relate to your musical theatre production, feel free to share those stories here.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

[disneybeauty]

Prank Story:

I was playing Milly in a production of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. It came for the lullaby scene, and I couldn't find my baby doll. One of the brothers turned up with it and I ran out onstage and sat in my rocking chair. I started to sing Glad That You Were Born, and pulled back the doll's blanket. The brothers hijacked my baby and gothed her. She had black eyeliner encased around her eyes, black lips, and a lightening bolt drawn on her cheek. I nearly lost all self control. I was able to give each brother a look to tell them "game on".
SO . . . I hijacked the coffee cups in the first house scene: I got each bride to make the most hideous facial expression and then taped the pictures inside each of the coffee cups. The moment the brothers saw the pictures inside their cups was priceless( they were frozen in place and couldn't look away from the bottom of the cups). Good times . . .

[Artistic_heart]

lol Aladdin...

in my production of aladdin the tech crew discovered some technical difficulties during one of the shows.
it was horrible! Exectaly at the part when the Geanie said, "let there be light!" the lights went completly off for 15 seconds.
Then when the lights came back on it caught the Geanie and Aladdin rolling the set of the stage,luckily they improvised
and Aladdin said," uh so you can really make this place disapear?"
and then the Geanie said," uh yeah, watch."
and then he rolled the set off and the curtains closed
and then the Geanie said," See! Gone!" the audienced laughed so hard after that!

[Elphaba22]

Dear lord, I was in Lucky Stiff, and I was supposed to push uncle anthony on in a wheelchair, and our set had various doors, and there were little ledges at the bottom of the doors that you had to push the wheelchair over when you went out of them so you had to tip it up. So the "knock" sound affect happens, and i open the door and say "is this yours, monsieur?" except i can't get the wheelchair over the ledge, and for like five minutes I improvise with the guy playing harry witherspoon about why im not coming into the room, and then I got applause when i finally got through the door.

[Artistic_heart]

lol i'm sorry Elphaba22 that sounded pretty embaressing! don't worry i have like a novel of mistakes that happen to me! lol but it's part of theater!

[rcs]

This one happened in a performance of Oklahoma! at my high school (I was not in it, but I was sitting in the audience). It was in the smokehouse scene, when Curly is demonstrating to Jud that he can shoot a bullet straight through the knothole. What happened was the kid playing Curly pulled the trigger, and the gun WOULDN'T GO OFF!!! It must have been an empty chamber or something. Anyway, he ad-libbed his way out of it by turning to Jud, looking perplexed, and asking "Does this thing work?" He then tried it again and it went off fine.

A year later, the same kid was in Bye Bye Birdie, playing Conrad (I was in the production this time), and on the very last night the orchestra didn't give him his note to come in on at the start of "Honestly Sincere" (I think an amplifier in the pit wasn't working properly). When it was clear that he wouldn't get his cue, he started to sing on his own, and miraculously came in on the right note. Once we were both backstage, I congratulated him on having now pulled off amazing saves in TWO different musicals.

[rcs]

This one happened in a performance of Oklahoma! at my high school (I was not in it, but I was sitting in the audience). It was in the smokehouse scene, when Curly is demonstrating to Jud that he can shoot a bullet straight through the knothole. What happened was the kid playing Curly pulled the trigger, and the gun WOULDN'T GO OFF!!! It must have been an empty chamber or something. Anyway, he ad-libbed his way out of it by turning to Jud, looking perplexed, and asking "Does this thing work?" He then tried it again and it went off fine.

A year later, the same kid was in Bye Bye Birdie, playing Conrad (I was in the production this time), and on the very last night the orchestra didn't give him his note to come in on at the start of "Honestly Sincere" (I think an amplifier in the pit wasn't working properly). When it was clear that he wouldn't get his cue, he started to sing on his own, and miraculously came in on the right note. Once we were both backstage, I congratulated him on having now pulled off amazing saves in TWO different musicals.

[IntoTheSpotlight]

In our production of Oklahoma on the last night, the "nude" pictures on the wall of Jud's cabin mysteriously dissapeared, then were "found" by the one of the stagehands. I was playing Aunt Eller, and when I rushed in to tell off Jud and Curly for scaring everyone, I noticed the pictures. Our backstage crew had cut out pictures of the head of our musical director and stuck them over the faces of the naked women. It was traumatising. If you look closely enough and pause the dvd in the right place you can catch a glimpse of one of the monstrosities. .

[rcs]

Not exactly a mistake, but this was something funny that happened when we were in rehearsal for Bye Bye Birdie. It was tech week, and our director was giving notes at the end of one of the (long) dress rehearsals. She had just finished giving notes on "Happy Face" and wanted to give some for "Telephone Hour," but somehow the two merged in her mind, and what she ended up saying was "Happy Hour"! Needless to say, the WHOLE CAST burst into laughter for several long minutes.

[Dancing_Queen]

During Hell Week of LSoH, our director was being a total bitch to our lighting people. They weren't doing a bad job necessarily, but she didn't want to take it out on the performers so we wouldn't get discouraged. SO they decided to get back at her...

In Somewhere That's Green, our set was in complete darkness except for a spotlight on Audrey. Right at the climax of the song, the lighting people TURNED OFF THE SPOTLIGHT. Audrey sang in pitch blackness for the remainder of the song.

It was LOUD in the control room where the lights people were when this happened, but luckily our director took the hint.

[LisaKitty]

[me-shellmybelle]

[broadwayxdoll]

the only on i can think of right now is when i was in seussical for the second time and the director was talking to us about the pianist and it actually came out penis. it was SO funny.