[The Duchess of Mint]

Dear Musicals.Net Posters,

If you've ever been in a play, musical or not, and you got to a scene wherein you were supposed to open a book, and look at it, and you suddenly found that the book that you were supposed to have had been replaced by a dirty book, or a porno magazine, or something else of an innuendo-esque, or explicit nature, feel free to tell your story.

Which book were you supposed to have? Who replaced the regular book with a dirty book, and which book served as the replacement book? Were you surprised? How surprised were you, and what was your reaction to the dirty book? What did your peers do, and what was the director's reaction? What was the audience's reaction to your reaction?

Thanks in advance for your replies. I posted this thread, in part, because I was always reading the "dirty book surprise" horror stories that were posted on the Music Man forum, and I was curious to know if any "dirty book surprises" had occurred during any other plays and/ or musicals.

I only know about one alleged "dirty book surprise" incident, which supposedly occurred during a rehearsal for the 1983 Disney movie, Something Wicked This Way Comes. The Disney company didn't have anything to do with the incident; someone who knew the actors substituted a dirty book for a clean one as a joke.

The prankster was the guy who supplied bottled water to the actors. His name was Johnny Blockmer, and he was a friend of several of the actors on the set, including Jonathan Pryce. Johnny apparently thought that Pryce's seriousness during the book destruction scene was slightly funny, so he decided to test Mr. Pryce's acting skills by substituting a cheap porno novel called Naughty Night Nurses: Midnight Medicine, for the original prop; he even covered the book so that Pryce wouldn't know the book's title. Jonathan Pryce hadn't rehearsed that particular scene more than a time or two, so he hadn't payed much attention to the exact look of the original book. During the "foiled" rehearsal, he started to say his memorized lines while "reading" the book; of course, halfway through his monologue, Pryce's eyes scanned over a few choice words, and he did a double take, and then he proceded to grin, and then to laugh. When the director asked Pryce what was wrong, the actor took the fake cover off of the book, looked at the book's real cover, and said, "Well, there SHOULD be NOTHING wrong, because I'm apparently in the care of the Naughty Night Nurses!"

The director was confused, so Pryce showed him the book, explaining that he himself couldn't possibly have brought that book to the set. Upon examining the book, the director went into fits of laughter, and he started coughing. The water supply man had to give the director a bottle of water, and while the director was drinking the water, the water supply man pointed to the porno novel and nodded his head towards Pryce. Pryce gave him a mock angry look, and then he smiled, and the water supply man knew that his secret was safe.

[Quique]

lol!!!!!!!!

Crazy, crazy Duchess.

This really made me laugh.

I LOVE YOU!!!!

*Frenches her*

[The Duchess of Mint]

[star2ballie]

In Beauty & The Beast last summer, we played a mean joke on our Gaston. In the book I (Belle) was reading in the opening, [and the one he steals later on], we pasted in all these gay porn pictures...because our Gaston was pretty "Gaston-like"--macho and overly masculine...so when he grabbed it from me he had the line that was something about, "How can you read this? There are no pictures!" but of course there were pictures...heh-heh-heh.

One of my finer moments, I must say, seeing him squirm like that.

[The Duchess of Mint]