[what_the_heck013]

What are your funniest improvs and bloopers from your production?

Our Miss Hannigan was hilarious. On the "dumb hotel" line, she said "dumb hoe... -tel". It was awesome.

I can't think of any major bloopers. Our Annie was late getting into her red dress once, and I had to make up a bit about how much I hated the champagne.

[LisaKitty]

[StarDreamer]

lol let's see ours had a few.. these were dress rehearsals here's a few that stick out in my mind...

One night when I was singing 'Tomorrow' the dog playing Sandy decided she was done and tried to walk offstage with me still hanging onto her leash

The one night they gave me a real apple I choked on it and completely botched the signature song

One night while trying to take the locket off it got caught on my mic and wig and we had to stop the show to untangle it

Let's see.. I'll have to think of some more lol

[musikal_geek]

Our pianist was kind of zoned-out during one scene, and he didn't start playing piano for NYC. After my little monologue about how much I loved it, I said... "I could almost just break out into song about it..." It was all I could think of!! It worked, though!

[what_the_heck013]

[OneSongGlory]

I always figured that the hotel line was supposed to be said like that.


Um.. our Sandy was horrible. It would never stay on stage. During the Annie/Officer Ward part, Sandy would just run off stage while Annie was calling her. Our Ward would just say something about keeping it on a leash then walk off too. Laaaaame.

[what_the_heck013]

[LisaKitty]

[StarDreamer]

Our director was our Sandy's owner and the night before Opening Night she jumped off the stage. We thought she was a goner as she has hip displaysia as well as other health conditions.

[happyguava]

Our Bert Healy performed the entire Oxydent scene as Cartman from South Park in the dress rehearsal. It was hillarious!!! I was Connie Boylan, and the three of us had to try so hard to keep from laughing.

[Sammy_beck]

I remember Sandy trying to run off the one time during the show. He just layed there and really didn't want to come, so from that time on I made sure that Sandy saw the treat right before the dog catcher pulled him away from me. It worked like a charm.

[phantomphan85]

LOL, these are all so funny!

[starletatheart]

Let's see here.... Our first Sandy was too big and kept trying to literally drag me offstage everytime, so we had to switch to a smaller dog a few weeks before opening night. One night the dog decided to "sing" or howl along with me during "Tomorrow". The audience, thankfully loved his rendition. Another night during the radio station reprise of "Maybe", the cord for the station microphone got caught on the uprising curtain, lifting the microphone stand clear off the ground for awhile. The Boylen Sisters were quite distraught.

[missywhitney]

Well, we haven't performed our production yet, however, one of our Annies (they're double cast) is black..lol. So one day in the scene where Grace says "Mr. Warbucks prefers red headed children"..instead she said "Mr. Warbucks prefers black children".. and just kept going in that vein for the whole rest of the scene. It was really funny...after the scene was over everyone was laughing for, like, ten minutes afterwards.

[musikal_geek]

Oh God!! That's so horrible yet so funny at the same time!

[Asha]

Yeah. She's referring to me. We go to school together and are both in Annie. Me being black is an amazing continuous joke in the show.

[Lara]

We (the orphans and Annie) were doing a preview for our show of Annie and we performed a few songs (Maybe, Hard Knock Life, Tomorrow, and Never Fully Dressed) for these people... when our Annie was singing Tomorrow she forgot a line for a moment and sang, "The sun'll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun....The sun'll come out tomorrow..." It was handled well though. She just kept going after that.

[Broadwaybaby2822]

haha I just got done playing the role of Annie....
Three things rele stick out of my mind during the show...

The opening night, right after maybe when we all were falling asleep, they had to stop the show cause people parked their car in the wrong spot, and they were going to be towed. And we had to stay asleep until everyone was back in! lol
Also that same night, when Rooster's supposed to be Ralph Mudge, he came on stage without the birth certificate....so he says "Oh I left Annie's birth certificate out their with the butler" and after a long pause with no words...the guy playing Oliver Warbucks says "I'll go get it then!" and he just left the stage, took a random piece of paper from back stage, and came back on! It was hilarious!

And the last show, during the last scence President Roosevelt's supposed to say "Turn them over Lewis!" but to be funny, he said "Book 'em Lewis!" That was the besst! hahahaha.

[Lara]

Our goof-up night was Saturday night.

The first problem was in the middle of Maybe. The music started messing up and finally shut off completley. After a moment, Annie started singing a capella. We finished the song and nothing seemed to go really wrong until the last scene. It went something like this:

Roosevelt: We tracked your parents through the note (or whatever the line is)
Annie: They're dead?
Warbucks: Yes...honey, but their names were Maragaret and David Bennet.
Annie: Where are they?
Grace: They're in heaven, dear.

Heh.

[Asha]

[Lara]

Yeah, everyone was a bit nervous about the final scene the next show. No one wanted to repeat that.

[KaytenMD]

So.. kinda bumping a dead-ish thread, but I have a few I can recall.. this was from my middle school's production of Annie Jr.

We had a really goofy 8th grader playing Drake, and when Warbucks gives him some sort of good news (maybe it was taking the night off? I kind of forget, it was seven years ago..) he decided to add in a line and yelled out "Oh, goody-goody gumdrops!" It was okay, though, and everyone laughed.

When we were singing "Anything but You," there was a lamp right next to the couch we started the song on, and when Warbucks stood up and held up his arm for part of the dance, he knocked the lampshade off the lamp. We got really flustered, but kept going, and I accidentally kept singing and almost sang his entire "I'm richer than Midas" line. Oops. It kind of came out as "I'm richer than... *giggle*" haha. It's funny watching the recording, though.

When I was singing "Maybe" on the radio show, I couldn't figure out why the audience was clapping in the middle of the song. Turns out the stage crew members were joking around and blinking the "applause" sign. Oh, lovely. haha.

That's all I remember, but being that it was a middle school show, I'm sure there were more. It was still a great show, and I'll always be grateful to have had the chance to play Annie! <3

[Lara]

Sounds like a fun show! The worst thing that happened in our show was probably some of the people with mics, hopefully not myself, were whispering when they were on stage and the mics were on. So...you'd hear things like "Where's my bucket?" and stuff.

I didn't know they could hear us until we got the videos. The best not-supposed-to-be-heard line was from Molly as they put her in the laundry basket off stage.

"Okay, I'm in! Go, go, go!"

[That High Soprano]

I had the role of Grace and I had this beautiful strapless black dress to wear for the last scene. When I had originally tried it on I had actdentally tried it on with the things you use to hang strapless dresses up, you know, those weird straps. Anyways, we just figured it would be fine and I didn't ry it on without the straps.
Well, our show was triple casted and we only had 2 nights of dress rehersal in the theater before we opened. Lucky me, I was the one without a dress rehersal.
Althought the dress was actually to tight for one girl, I hadn't though I would have any problems, except for it being my first quick change, so the show is going great and we get to the scene and I do my quick change. The Dress Doesn't Fit!! Not to small, too big! Because it was a quick change we couldn't do anything to alter it, so for my last 15 min on stage I was fighting to keep the dress up!
The most imbarassing part was, afterwards, one of the moms of one of the orphans in the play came up to me and told me that she would help me with the dress for the next show, she could tell I was having problems from the audience! I was so embarased! I was trying to do it without being noticed!

We also had this time when Warbucks had forgoten the check, and so I had the paper saying all the "ralph and sherly mudge arn't real" stuff in my hands and when Warbucks couldn't find the check he just took the paper from my hands and folded it in thirds and handed it to "Ralph"

[RTTugger1977]

Not an "Annie" malfunction per se, but definitely an "Annie"-related one. When I was in sixth grade, for one of our programs, we sang a medley of showtunes, one of which was "Tomorrow". Now think about how most people who sing "Tomorrow" perform it. ("When I'm stuck with a day that's grey and lonely, I just stick out my chin and grin and SAAAAAYYYY...OHHHHHHHH...", etc.) Well, we weren't supposed to do the "standard showbiz Broadway kid belter"-style version, but one girl kept forgetting, causing our (very persnicketty) music teacher to have a hissy fit.

I didn't like the fact that he yelled at us a lot (nor the fact that some of my friends sort of kept on testing him), but that was pretty funny when I look back.

At least no one sang it like Eddie Murphy (as James Brown) did on SNL.

[missywhitney]

[psych_out]

My (Middle School's) production, where I was an orphan-

-Our sound person messed up the cue for NYC one rehearsal, and our Warbucks tried (successfully, might I add) to fit his last line into about 2 seconds, so it sounded like, "Ah, smell those bus fumes! There'snoairliketheairofNewYorklet'sgettotheRoxybeforethepriceschange! *Huge breath* NYC!"

-Our Rooster's false mustache fell off during one of his exits on the second night. The best part is the next night- he delievered all of his lines with his hand on his face holding the mustache (/small furry caterpillar) in place. Fantastic image!

- Not really a blooper, but: A snowstorm delayed/canceled school for 3/5 days the week before our shows.... (Yeah, our Annie almost had a nervous breakdown...but it turned out okay!)

-Our director gave Grace (played by one of my friends) some dresses to try on for the final scene-and one of them was totally see-through. Obviously it wasn't used, but the memory of an entire moving mob of girls covering her on her way to tell our director about it-priceless.

-But the winner is our Miss Hannigan, who sat back down in her chair after Grace's exit in Little Girls....and the chair totally collapsed/splintered. She was okay, but the rest of us were totally freaked out (especially b/c I'd been sitting in that chair for Never Fully Dressed).

Yay Annie productions! (Our performances actually went really well overal; best show the Drama Club has done in the last three years!)

P.S. And referring to the last post, I split the job of getting Molly into the hamper with another 8th grader....and before we had our basket, Molly sort of crab-walked offstage really fast, cracking up most of the cast.