i was in a school production of peter pan and the actor had to fly through a window that had a latch on it but somehow the latch locked again and when peter tried to fly through the window he just slammed into it and this 7ft wooden window thing and smashed down onto the floor. it was terrifying for us at the moment but now that i look back at it, it’s *HILARIOUS*
Once I was in a school production of Les Mis and a plastic prop tomato started rolling down the stage and into the audience during valjean's soliloquy...
During one of the barricade scenes there was a barrel and it fell off the stage and rolled into the audience and it happened to be the night they filmed
Okay, but during one show we did, someone's mic died on stage. They were fine, they performed through it. During a longer blackout, one of the crew members ran on stage and changed the battery. But the blackout ended before he could get offstage. This show's set was a courtroom made out of book cases. He had to hide onstage for the entire scene just crouching behind a book case.
One of my music professors said that he had a rule for onstage mishaps. “If nobody dies or is irreparably injured, it’s hysterical. Otherwise, it’s traumatic and why we have a psychological services offered on campus. We did Camelot. During ‘The Lusty Months Of May,” I was dancing (badly) with what was supposed to be a cameo dance with Lancelot and he danced himself into the orchestra pit and broke his leg. Curtain came down, an ambulance was called and we had a different Lancelot. Yup. THAT was traumatic.
Okay, I really don't want to take away from the fact that that does sound really scary & stressful for all involved. I hope he recovered well, & I hope that blocking was adjusted after that to pad the minimum intended distance from the stage edge a bit, yikes :( ... but also THE "BREAK A LEG" JOKES OH MY DOG I'm sorry I'm sorry I couldn't not say something I just {wheezes} I can't ... _maybe the real trauma is the terrible "break a leg" jokes we make along the way_
In our production of Mary Poppins with my local theatre company, the fire alarm decided in the middle of “Step in Time” while Bert was in the air would be the perfect time for a reset! Massive alarms started going off and the fire curtain came down on the stage with Bert stuck hanging in the air above the stage. We had to evacuate the whole theatre (300+ people). I was backstage crew for that show. It was quite the experience! 😂🙈 The cast were champs though and once we got the all clear to come back in, they started right at the spot they left off as if nothing had happened.
When I was in primary school the fire alarm went off during the senior school production. Someone had left a hair straightener on in one of the classrooms they were getting ready in and it started smoking. Everyone has to evacuate and it stopped everything for like 30 minutes while the firefighters checked everywhere. Luckily that year they had decided that each class would do their own small show of a fairy tail so I think whatever class was on stage just restarted and then they carried on.
During a high school production of pride and prejudice, i worked the show and SO MANY THINGS went minutely wrong. Bingley's ball flew off the stage, one of the couches had to be replaced mid performance because one of the legs were splitting, Mrs. Bennett's bell broke and she kept ringing it, without the outer shell, a mic was turned on by accident and the actress swore and it was heard throughout the whole auditorium, the downstage wings flew up instead of the scrim cuz flies unlocked the wrong one, when carrying it off stage, a stage hand hit a lattice against a wall, and our jello punch was moldy. :)
@@kaleighwiens1860 she got stuck on the bubble. She’s supposed to be able to walk off of it much sooner, finish like two or three more lines and then run off to do a quick change right after what was shown. But the person behind her couldn’t unclip her from the frame until quite a bit later.
I played Captain Hook. In the middle of my big solo, one of our trees on stage falls.. on an old lady in the front row.. in a wheelchair.. with an IV machine strapped to her.. I laughed by accident.
My daughters were in a high school production of Newsies. In one of the big numbers, a dancer high kicked and her shoe flew off, hit the ceiling, and bounced into the audience. It was hard, but I held in the laughter. Then I saw the director crawling through the audience to retrieve the shoe....
I remember one play we had a door that would slam and the adjacent picture frame would fall EVERY time and it became an ongoing joke throughout the play
In our school’s production of Mary Poppins, when George Banks drops the vase and it’s supposed to smash, it just rolled off the stage into the pit and hit the piano player’s head. The guy who played George is my best friend and he was so embarrassed 😭
my performance school did 9 to 5 last year, and we had several things go wrong. I am so bad with second hand embarrassment so i looked through the comments first and then just went "well whats the bug deal? ive had several mishaps in 9 to-" and then 9 to 5 shows up on the screen....
I was in my school's production of Legally Blonde in May this year, and the girl who played Brooke tried kicking Professor Callahan in the back of his shins and landed on her butt during bows
I was at a showing of Mary Poppins on tour and during that same kitchen scene where the table breaks, the table just kept jumping up and down malfunctioning. They actually had to pause the show to fix it.
1:02 Ack, something like that happened to me once. One for a one act competition my school was doing a show based off of Greek mythology, so our teacher wanted us to wear bedsheet togas. But during our live performance mine started to become untied and slip off, and I just had to keep doing this wacky dance number while desperately trying to hold it up. Luckily I had shorts and a tank underneath but WOW was I embarrassed lol
I was in a school production of Matilda a few months ago, played Matilda. I had a quick costume change in literally 2 minutes and when I was doing it, my mic wire got stuck in my bra and wrapped around my neck. I had no time to fix it, so ran on stage. I when I did that, the mic pack became loose from the belt, and I was trying to do my two times tables whilst it was slowly slipping, the wire was chocking me and the mic wouldn’t attach to my collar so I was holding it in front of my face.
funnily enough, our school's production of Matilda just ended last week and during one of our runs we had terrible feedback with Matilda's headmic. Stories like this make so so glad that while my character had the most amount of costumes I never had to deal with the quickchange bs. still, it's really impressive that you were able to get through it!!
I was on lighting for a one act at my school and at one point they had an actor under the table while the other two ate and drank orange juice. The table got knocked, and one glass spilled all over the guy under the table. A little while later, the second glass also fell over and spilled. In that same show, the cart they needed to set up the dinner scene didn’t get pushed out far enough (the actor that had to set the table was chained to said table) and some of the sound cues wouldn’t go. they handled everything really well though, and it worked because the show is meant to be a really chaotic comedy
When I was the cat in the hat in seusical, during one feather tail a little kid managed to get her way to the stage so I had to pick her up during the show and get her back to her parents 🥲
one time during OPENING NIGHT of a school production of james and the giant peach, a chair broke under a girl and we both had mics so we had to improv for like 10 lines while i fixed the chair
One time, we were doing Singing in the Rain, which has some filmed scenes, the computer we were using to show it (we plugged it into a projector) decided to ask to update while it was being used Also in that show, a lamp lightbulb broke spontaneously, a clothesrack fell apart, a chair broke and I had to kneel for a scene, the lid to a fake cake landed on my head and broke, among other things
I was in the Tempest as Trinculo. I had a belt on that Stefano was supposed to grab when I'd charge after Caliban. One night, he grabbed the belt and it snapped, causing me to hop forward unexpectedly. I looked back at Stefano, who was holding the ruins of my belt in his hands. I then went into a pose like an Olympic sprinter, to buy Stefano time before launching myself at Caliban. He ran up and grabbed me around the waist, making it all look planned. One of my best performances.
My favorite I’ve experienced was in Wicked when Galinda threw her wand offstage during Popular, she accidentally hit the wall and it bounced back and hit her in the back of the head!
During my beauty and the beast jr practice we were going through the whole show. I had a small part during belle and then had to wait for another small part in the mob song and the scene after it. While we were practicing the mob song I had a mic on. I was singing my part and throughout the entire song I heard an echo. I thought it was Gaston’s mic or the other person who had a small part. The next scene came and throughout the fight scene I heard grunting and fighting (Which I didn’t think much of ofc because that’s the whole scene.) I walk off stage and I pat my friend on the back and say “Good job! We finally did it!” In a whisper. I heard myself echo. Oh no. I try to hold on my laugh but it sneaks out and instead of a HA! It’s was a EEK! And we had gotten to the part where the beast was “Dying” so it was basically like “No! Don’t die! I love you!” “EEK EEK EEK.” I try so hard not to laugh again and I run down to get my mic off. Long story short, during the actual show they either didn’t turn my mic on or they just forgot to. So yup. Thanks for your time lmao
I was in a school production of Seussical. I played the Cat in the Hat. Everything went fine until opening night, when somewhere in the show my hat fell off on stage. Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, when I reached to pick it up, I bumped into my friend Hugo who had played Horton the Elephant, whose elephant ear fell off. It really freaked out the elementary schoolers in the audience 😅
Danny Kaye in Two By Two. He kept bucking his wheelchair at his stage son, who jumped backwards ea time, eventually jumping into the wings. Danny’s response was “Keep it up and you’ll be in No No Nanette next (which was playing in the theatre next door.)
I was one of the older kids in a community theater production, and someone forgot their lines in the middle of the play. I had to remind them of their lines while the show was still running💀
I was in this summer camp production of matilda last summer (I was Mrs wormwood) and there was this one scene where Sergei had to push my friend (she was playing mr wormwood) to the ground, but when she got pushed to the ground her green wig literally fell off💀
I went to a highschool play for Beauty and the Beast. One of the back up dancers fell on her butt. Nobody seemed to notice except for me, and the other two dancers that helped her up
My school did Sweeney Todd recently, and during The Contest, our Pirelli dropped the bowl with the shaving cream in it and it just _shattered._ And on our first performance, our Mrs. Lovett skipped ahead 100 measures during A Little Priest but our orchestra director knew exactly where to go and the recovery was practically seamless
i believe she said "i'll take the other exit" or "take the other exit" which is why they laughed, since she was referring to the wings, an 'exit' that the characters wouldn't know about.
My theater and I had an issue where we we preforming Murder in the Orient Express and one on the suitcases got stuck. The scene took 5 more minutes then it should have
I was in a play recently, and during our bows, someone almost fell onstage bc they had to enter dramatically, someone grabbed them right before they fell, we broke a floor mic and almost had two people fall into the pit. No one was hurt btw
When my theatre was doing a production of She Kills Monsters, we forgot to make a WHOLE ASS CHARACTER DIE, and one of the actors had to cover by pushing her out onto stage and saying “THEY GOT HER!!” 😂
I have one of my own!!! My school was doing a show that involved platforms onstage, and I was on one of them for my scene. When I had to step off of the platform to exit, I tripped over my skirt and fell! I was a freshman at the time and this was the first time this had happened to me, so I just laid there for a few seconds laughing. Then I got back into character and walked offstage. It was amazing.
So we were doing a Mary Poppin’s show once and I was on the costume team. Which meant I made the costumes and managed them backstage. Though during a performance, the actor for one of the kids ran up to me and whispered that he lost one of the trousers in a scene. We panicked and searched for them everywhere. We even searched for them after that performance night and months/years after. We never found them. Sometimes I wonder where those trousers went
My college did a production of Heathers and we used real lockers. I don’t know what happened but when when one of the extras decided to lean on one, huge domino effect and they all came crashing down on Heather Duke. She was completely fine and announced it, everyone couldn’t stop laughing for a solid 5 minutes
Kevin Kline and Roxanne Hart starred in a play at the Circle in the Square many years ago called Loose Ends. He gave her a gift for her birthday and it ended up in a screaming match where they were on opposite sides of the stage facing away from each other and yelling at the top of their lungs. The audience laughter grew louder and louder because the huge bow from the gift was planted on Kline's butt, like a Playboy bunny's tail. She finally turned, crossed the stage and yanked it off like it was part of the stage business.
I love stage mishaps like the door getting stuck because we get to see the actors try to carry on in character. My personal favorite is an Into the Woods play at my highschool where the cow got stuck partway through wheeling it across the stage so the actor tugged once, twice, looked at the cow, shrugged, then picked it up and carried it the rest of the way across.
Theater actors are quick thinkers cuz they have to go one even when this happens, tv/film actors are used to stop and do again so they may have some trouble in those situations. The magic of live entretaiment
I had a school production of Narnia back in grade 3, and one of the swords of the enemies wound up breaking. The audience laughed when they saw the shocked expression on his face.
i did guys and dolls a few years back (i played a gambler for this specific scene) and right after sit down you're rocking the boat i felt a cough coming on but didn't want to interrupt the whole scene with the cops in the mission because i had a mic and the scene was fairly quiet so i held it in. turns out holding in a cough is not too good for you because i started crying on stage and had to find a way to play it off :))
i went to six and anne fully broke her mic and ran off then just appeared five minutes later and still to this day on none of our videos can we find when she came back on
During my most recent high school show my spotlight, during my first que of the show (my favorite too because one of the characters points right to me to do it) just wouldn’t turn on :’) about halfway through the first act it just randomly popped back on which was good because we had a duet coming the next scene, which only having one spot wouldnt work for
I actually have two theater fails to share. Both of them happened on the second performance of a show. The first one happened when my theater did Mary Poppins last year, I was a sweep, and me and my friend could not find some of the letters for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. They ended up not making it onto the stage that night, but somehow the cast managed to make it work. The second one happened very recently. I was Karnak in my theater’s production of ride the cyclone, and one night for some reason I froze and it took me so long to say “cue the mariachi band” (I eventually said the line) and the guy who played Noel started improving about his dreams in France and it was hilarious.
It actually became even funnier after that when he gave Elphaba the broom that he swung in with and kept her broom in his hands as the 'weapon' for the rest of the scene. The look on Willemijn's face (the actress playing Elphaba) was priceless
One time I was in Shrek, the musical, and for one of the scene changes it was just me and another guy who had to add trees and takeoff like a set piece so I was struggling to pick up one of the trees up and then one of the stationary trees that were on stage fell over, so I just picked it back up, and I had to stand behind it for the rest of the scene
When my theatre did Back to the 80s the volleyball we used for the foskicarskababadogobomx tournament kept rolling off stage for the first weekend so we had a backstage helper make sure it didn’t for the rest of the shows Edit: I also forgot to add that one of my friends broke her wrist while riding a hover board for the show and I sprained my ankle while running backstage to get a hat
Oh gosh I have a story for this. We were rehearsing and people were up on the beasts (which are like the big 12-feet-high set pieces) and they are NOT supposed to move. Anyway we're all dancing and the beast STARTS TO MOVE as people are on it, almost crushing like 20 people. It was so scary because we all heard screams and then looked over to see the beast moving. Also a side note is that a common saying in my theatre group is "if the beast touches you, you die". So yeah. It was fine in the end, no one was hurt and we all like to joke about it now even though it only happened a few weeks ago. But so terrifying in the moment!
Yo this is fascinating, I enjoy safety/design/emergency prevention topics like this a lot. Can I be a weird nerd at you & ask about what's known about how the structure began to fail? And like have they changed the design for the set pieces' base structure since then?
@@ItsAsparageese Haha you're always welcome to be a weird nerd, I'm totally one too Structurally, it was pretty sound. They were made from a lot of thick wood beams and supported us with all the jumping and dancing around we had to do. But the problem was that although we had brakes on them, they weren't super secure! So we used some wooden structures to hold them in place better until we could purchase better brakes and really lock them in place! Aaaand that was about all we did. But we tested them a few times after and they worked pretty well and were secure. I wasn't on the stage crew last year, though, so I don't know much, hopefully this answered your question though!
@@ryleem371 Ohhhh! Tbh, due to the set pieces I've seen up close, it totally didn't occur to me that the ones you spoke of may have been on wheels 😆 That totally makes sense lol glad to hear it was a matter of rolling rather than wobbling and wound up being an easy fix! I appreciate you taking the time to indulge my nerdy curiosity 😊
@@ItsAsparageese Oh yeah! I get that confusion haha, they definitely had wheels although we didn't actually move them during the duration of the musical. And I'm glad too! That would have been a tricky thing to fix four weeks before opening 0_o
i was in a high school production of peter pan jr. and during the scene where peter and hook swordfight, hook knocked my (i was peter pan lol) sword out of my hand and it went flying offstage into the audience 😭 thankfully nobody got hurt
I’m currently rehearsing for a play “Seussical” and in one of the scenes, my castmate has to run and grab a prop item and midway through saying his line he feel down and pretended to do a backflip 💀
❤❤❤❤My college current major is "Theatre", although I know it pertains to musical theatre,acting for the professional camera, and vocal performance----
I had an embarrassing moment happen to me in my first high school theatre production. My school did Legally Blonde that spring in which I was in the ensemble, I was getting ready for the show that night and we were doing notes before. I was running behind and getting these tan heels on so in my schools auditorium there are seven ways to get to the stage. There are three sets of steps, the wings, and the doors that lead to the wings on each side. So the stairs in the side of the stage lead our to double doors and a hallway so I was going from the girls dressing room to the auditorium, and the fastest way is through the double doors that lead to the stage left steps and down to the seats in the lower level (I was doing this with my heels unbuckled and I walked through the doors down the stairs and suddenly I missed a step and fell. I was fine I just reopened some old wounds and they bled but after notes, I went to the bathroom and cleaned the reopened wounds.
See, a similar thing happened to Glinda once when I was backstage at a performance of Wicked, I was wondering why she was talking very slowly until I could see that the person behind her was having issue with the safety clip, so she was covering by not queing the music too early. "I did... *know her*.... that is..... our paths.... did..... cross............. (gets the go ahead).... at school."
At one of the touring productions of newsies I saw, at the end when Teddy Roosevelt comes out, his mustache was not staying on. He tried to keep going while trying to re-stick it but gave up on hiding it and ended up saying "I'm Teddy Roosevelt, I promise." Or something like that. Lots of fun.
i was in a school production of peter pan and the actor had to fly through a window that had a latch on it but somehow the latch locked again and when peter tried to fly through the window he just slammed into it and this 7ft wooden window thing and smashed down onto the floor. it was terrifying for us at the moment but now that i look back at it, it’s *HILARIOUS*
Hahaha!
Glad no one was hurt!
Wait did it go viral, I’m certain I’ve seen the video 😭
@@detrell3101 ruclips.net/video/1_kx3byv8ow/видео.html This one?
lmfaooooo
Once I was in a school production of Les Mis and a plastic prop tomato started rolling down the stage and into the audience during valjean's soliloquy...
During one of the barricade scenes there was a barrel and it fell off the stage and rolled into the audience and it happened to be the night they filmed
@@cara9851 haha 😂
🤣🤣
Same thing happened to me but it was Steel magnolias. We all broke and started laughing but it was a dress rehearsal thank god
i love this, thanks for sharing 😂
The fact that they keep going is both funny AND impressive lol
i mean, that's just professionalism. as they say in theatre, the show must go on :)
I mean they don’t really have another option. They can’t just stop and start again.
@@rachelcookie321 They could. But it never works out lol
I can totally see Britt looking back at Sam, laughing. And Sam trying to hold her laughter cause Britt is just holding her shorts haha!
I think Andrea did notice it.
britt's shorts get me every time
Her expression is so so good
@@decoydamsel she's trying to decide how seriously to take the situation 😂
She really said “ 😳”
I love how she just stood there awkwardly and then kept dancing like “Aw, screw it. Let’s keep dancing.”
@@NaviNeku24 “eh, they were gonna see me without shorts later anyway”
1:00 Andrea's riff is theeeeee best. One and only.
1:06 Brittney's face was like 👁️👄👁️
It took me a hot second to figure out what was the mishap
@@avacassidy5401 what was it?
@@e.c.1367 Brittney’s (Cleves) pants fell down
@@avacassidy5401 Ohhhh!!! I see it now thank you!!!!!! lol
DON'T LOSE UR SHORTS
Okay, but during one show we did, someone's mic died on stage. They were fine, they performed through it. During a longer blackout, one of the crew members ran on stage and changed the battery. But the blackout ended before he could get offstage. This show's set was a courtroom made out of book cases. He had to hide onstage for the entire scene just crouching behind a book case.
Wait… this happened to me
I read someone died on stage and was so confused at "They were fine, they performed through it"
@@Butterflydr3w 😂
@@keylime_pi3.143 😂 Hi Keyera, this is Margo lol
We're talking about the same incident
@@MxNEWCASTLE ohhhhh. I thought it must be someone I know. This is too specific to be coincidental 😂
I'm a simple person. I see Henry VIII's six wives, I clicc
Mood lmao
Me
Yes
Hi, Jane!
Henry didn't love you.
He just wanted a son.
Btw what was the mishap with that one? I didn’t get it
One of my music professors said that he had a rule for onstage mishaps. “If nobody dies or is irreparably injured, it’s hysterical. Otherwise, it’s traumatic and why we have a psychological services offered on campus. We did Camelot. During ‘The Lusty Months Of May,” I was dancing (badly) with what was supposed to be a cameo dance with Lancelot and he danced himself into the orchestra pit and broke his leg. Curtain came down, an ambulance was called and we had a different Lancelot. Yup. THAT was traumatic.
Okay, I really don't want to take away from the fact that that does sound really scary & stressful for all involved. I hope he recovered well, & I hope that blocking was adjusted after that to pad the minimum intended distance from the stage edge a bit, yikes :(
... but also THE "BREAK A LEG" JOKES OH MY DOG I'm sorry I'm sorry I couldn't not say something I just {wheezes} I can't ... _maybe the real trauma is the terrible "break a leg" jokes we make along the way_
In our production of Mary Poppins with my local theatre company, the fire alarm decided in the middle of “Step in Time” while Bert was in the air would be the perfect time for a reset! Massive alarms started going off and the fire curtain came down on the stage with Bert stuck hanging in the air above the stage. We had to evacuate the whole theatre (300+ people). I was backstage crew for that show. It was quite the experience! 😂🙈
The cast were champs though and once we got the all clear to come back in, they started right at the spot they left off as if nothing had happened.
When I was in primary school the fire alarm went off during the senior school production. Someone had left a hair straightener on in one of the classrooms they were getting ready in and it started smoking. Everyone has to evacuate and it stopped everything for like 30 minutes while the firefighters checked everywhere. Luckily that year they had decided that each class would do their own small show of a fairy tail so I think whatever class was on stage just restarted and then they carried on.
During a high school production of pride and prejudice, i worked the show and SO MANY THINGS went minutely wrong. Bingley's ball flew off the stage, one of the couches had to be replaced mid performance because one of the legs were splitting, Mrs. Bennett's bell broke and she kept ringing it, without the outer shell, a mic was turned on by accident and the actress swore and it was heard throughout the whole auditorium, the downstage wings flew up instead of the scrim cuz flies unlocked the wrong one, when carrying it off stage, a stage hand hit a lattice against a wall, and our jello punch was moldy. :)
I’m just surprised you casually had a spare couch.
@@rachelcookie321 was it the one from the green room?
After a while, ya kind of start to feel cursed! Did anyone say the name of that Scottish play or bring a peacock feather on stage? 😆
Mary poppins did NOT hesitate
But what did she say? I can't make it out
@@Gogoroth2 the door will not open take the other exit
I love how she stayed so in-character. Lol
Live theatre is the best. Here's the reminder that even the pros mess up.
VERY wonderful composure from that Glinda holy crap. She has a quick change right after that too.
What was wrong? I didn’t catch the mishap!
@@kaleighwiens1860 she got stuck on the bubble. She’s supposed to be able to walk off of it much sooner, finish like two or three more lines and then run off to do a quick change right after what was shown. But the person behind her couldn’t unclip her from the frame until quite a bit later.
I played Captain Hook. In the middle of my big solo, one of our trees on stage falls.. on an old lady in the front row.. in a wheelchair.. with an IV machine strapped to her.. I laughed by accident.
Oh my god
Then you're not very professional at all.
How very villainous of you
@@meginmd7879 what exactly were they supposed to do
Tbh I would've laughed too
🎶don’t lose ur shorts🎶
My daughters were in a high school production of Newsies. In one of the big numbers, a dancer high kicked and her shoe flew off, hit the ceiling, and bounced into the audience. It was hard, but I held in the laughter. Then I saw the director crawling through the audience to retrieve the shoe....
I remember one play we had a door that would slam and the adjacent picture frame would fall EVERY time and it became an ongoing joke throughout the play
OMG Brittney's pants falling off meanwhile she's just like 🧍♀ and her face I'm DYING
In our school’s production of Mary Poppins, when George Banks drops the vase and it’s supposed to smash, it just rolled off the stage into the pit and hit the piano player’s head. The guy who played George is my best friend and he was so embarrassed 😭
LMFAO
Mary Pppins stayed so in character😂
What did she say?
@@erikachristiansen1361 not 100% sure but she started with ‘oh dear the door won’t open’
How attached are you to this scarf? Apparently very 🤣
my performance school did 9 to 5 last year, and we had several things go wrong. I am so bad with second hand embarrassment so i looked through the comments first and then just went "well whats the bug deal? ive had several mishaps in 9 to-" and then 9 to 5 shows up on the screen....
I was in my school's production of Legally Blonde in May this year, and the girl who played Brooke tried kicking Professor Callahan in the back of his shins and landed on her butt during bows
lmao
I was at a showing of Mary Poppins on tour and during that same kitchen scene where the table breaks, the table just kept jumping up and down malfunctioning. They actually had to pause the show to fix it.
I wish the camera stayed on Britt’s face a little longer for her expression lol
Britt: * Loses her shorts *
Andrea: IM NOT SORRYYYYYYYY
1:02 Ack, something like that happened to me once. One for a one act competition my school was doing a show based off of Greek mythology, so our teacher wanted us to wear bedsheet togas. But during our live performance mine started to become untied and slip off, and I just had to keep doing this wacky dance number while desperately trying to hold it up. Luckily I had shorts and a tank underneath but WOW was I embarrassed lol
Britt losing her shorts has to be the funniest thing to ever happen to that cast on stage second only to Andrea's spacebars falling out
Wait, what happened with Andrea? I'm not sure what the spacebars you're referring to are.
Is there another video somewhere?
her space b uns fell out of her hair in wisconsin. i couldnt find a vid but i remember her talking abt it ona interview @@kentthompson6407
@@kentthompson6407 probably mean the space buns
@@greeeeee1234Ah, that makes sense! I thought maybe they were talking about one of the black bars on the costume coming unsewed or something.
@@kentthompson6407 ooooh lol
glad I helped!
I was in a school production of Matilda a few months ago, played Matilda. I had a quick costume change in literally 2 minutes and when I was doing it, my mic wire got stuck in my bra and wrapped around my neck. I had no time to fix it, so ran on stage. I when I did that, the mic pack became loose from the belt, and I was trying to do my two times tables whilst it was slowly slipping, the wire was chocking me and the mic wouldn’t attach to my collar so I was holding it in front of my face.
funnily enough, our school's production of Matilda just ended last week and during one of our runs we had terrible feedback with Matilda's headmic. Stories like this make so so glad that while my character had the most amount of costumes I never had to deal with the quickchange bs. still, it's really impressive that you were able to get through it!!
I love how Anna of cleeves kept preforming-
I was on lighting for a one act at my school and at one point they had an actor under the table while the other two ate and drank orange juice. The table got knocked, and one glass spilled all over the guy under the table. A little while later, the second glass also fell over and spilled.
In that same show, the cart they needed to set up the dinner scene didn’t get pushed out far enough (the actor that had to set the table was chained to said table) and some of the sound cues wouldn’t go.
they handled everything really well though, and it worked because the show is meant to be a really chaotic comedy
When I was the cat in the hat in seusical, during one feather tail a little kid managed to get her way to the stage so I had to pick her up during the show and get her back to her parents 🥲
one time during OPENING NIGHT of a school production of james and the giant peach, a chair broke under a girl and we both had mics so we had to improv for like 10 lines while i fixed the chair
One time, we were doing Singing in the Rain, which has some filmed scenes, the computer we were using to show it (we plugged it into a projector) decided to ask to update while it was being used
Also in that show, a lamp lightbulb broke spontaneously, a clothesrack fell apart, a chair broke and I had to kneel for a scene, the lid to a fake cake landed on my head and broke, among other things
I was in the Tempest as Trinculo. I had a belt on that Stefano was supposed to grab when I'd charge after Caliban. One night, he grabbed the belt and it snapped, causing me to hop forward unexpectedly. I looked back at Stefano, who was holding the ruins of my belt in his hands. I then went into a pose like an Olympic sprinter, to buy Stefano time before launching myself at Caliban. He ran up and grabbed me around the waist, making it all look planned. One of my best performances.
opening night of my school's production of addams family my wig flew off stage
Who were you playing as?
How did that happen?
OMG HAHA
that better not be me…my school is doing the addams family this year and i think i might have to wear a wig 😭
Andrea: Don't lose your head!
Britt: *She didn't say anything about my shorts...*
My favorite I’ve experienced was in Wicked when Galinda threw her wand offstage during Popular, she accidentally hit the wall and it bounced back and hit her in the back of the head!
omg lmaooo
During my beauty and the beast jr practice we were going through the whole show. I had a small part during belle and then had to wait for another small part in the mob song and the scene after it. While we were practicing the mob song I had a mic on. I was singing my part and throughout the entire song I heard an echo. I thought it was Gaston’s mic or the other person who had a small part. The next scene came and throughout the fight scene I heard grunting and fighting (Which I didn’t think much of ofc because that’s the whole scene.) I walk off stage and I pat my friend on the back and say “Good job! We finally did it!” In a whisper. I heard myself echo. Oh no. I try to hold on my laugh but it sneaks out and instead of a HA! It’s was a EEK! And we had gotten to the part where the beast was “Dying” so it was basically like “No! Don’t die! I love you!” “EEK EEK EEK.” I try so hard not to laugh again and I run down to get my mic off. Long story short, during the actual show they either didn’t turn my mic on or they just forgot to. So yup. Thanks for your time lmao
Finally, some She Loves Me boot footage😍 thx
I was in a school production of Seussical. I played the Cat in the Hat. Everything went fine until opening night, when somewhere in the show my hat fell off on stage. Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, when I reached to pick it up, I bumped into my friend Hugo who had played Horton the Elephant, whose elephant ear fell off. It really freaked out the elementary schoolers in the audience 😅
Danny Kaye in Two By Two. He kept bucking his wheelchair at his stage son, who jumped backwards ea time, eventually jumping into the wings. Danny’s response was “Keep it up and you’ll be in No No Nanette next (which was playing in the theatre next door.)
I was one of the older kids in a community theater production, and someone forgot their lines in the middle of the play. I had to remind them of their lines while the show was still running💀
At least Cleaves didn't lose her head 🤣
The fact I could understand all of these clips even without subtitles had me really confused for a second lmao
I was in this summer camp production of matilda last summer (I was Mrs wormwood) and there was this one scene where Sergei had to push my friend (she was playing mr wormwood) to the ground, but when she got pushed to the ground her green wig literally fell off💀
I went to a highschool play for Beauty and the Beast. One of the back up dancers fell on her butt. Nobody seemed to notice except for me, and the other two dancers that helped her up
THE PERSON BEHIND HER AT 1:07 😭😭😭
I was the wicked witch once and Dorothy couldn't find the bucket backstage... Ended up having to just die suddenly anyway 🙈
My school did Sweeney Todd recently, and during The Contest, our Pirelli dropped the bowl with the shaving cream in it and it just _shattered._ And on our first performance, our Mrs. Lovett skipped ahead 100 measures during A Little Priest but our orchestra director knew exactly where to go and the recovery was practically seamless
I wanna so Sweeney so badly omg
what did Mary Poppins say directly after "Oh dear, the door will not open"?
i believe she said "i'll take the other exit" or "take the other exit" which is why they laughed, since she was referring to the wings, an 'exit' that the characters wouldn't know about.
I like how she stayed in character when she said it though
cleves' face is the FUNNIEST THING and then she immediately breaks back into dancing
I once watched a play where everything went wrong. And people just kept laughing.
brittany's shorts falling off gets me every time
My theater and I had an issue where we we preforming Murder in the Orient Express and one on the suitcases got stuck. The scene took 5 more minutes then it should have
1:03 this is why I love this actor
Laughed out loud at Mary Poppins alternative exit!
I was in a play recently, and during our bows, someone almost fell onstage bc they had to enter dramatically, someone grabbed them right before they fell, we broke a floor mic and almost had two people fall into the pit. No one was hurt btw
When my theatre was doing a production of She Kills Monsters, we forgot to make a WHOLE ASS CHARACTER DIE, and one of the actors had to cover by pushing her out onto stage and saying “THEY GOT HER!!” 😂
I have one of my own!!! My school was doing a show that involved platforms onstage, and I was on one of them for my scene. When I had to step off of the platform to exit, I tripped over my skirt and fell! I was a freshman at the time and this was the first time this had happened to me, so I just laid there for a few seconds laughing. Then I got back into character and walked offstage. It was amazing.
Lol! That first clip. Laura’s such a legend.
So we were doing a Mary Poppin’s show once and I was on the costume team. Which meant I made the costumes and managed them backstage. Though during a performance, the actor for one of the kids ran up to me and whispered that he lost one of the trousers in a scene. We panicked and searched for them everywhere. We even searched for them after that performance night and months/years after. We never found them. Sometimes I wonder where those trousers went
I was in the Wizard of Oz and our Glinda also got stuck in her bubble!
My college did a production of Heathers and we used real lockers. I don’t know what happened but when when one of the extras decided to lean on one, huge domino effect and they all came crashing down on Heather Duke. She was completely fine and announced it, everyone couldn’t stop laughing for a solid 5 minutes
1:04
I'M DYING 😭
My third grade music teacher was the woman who played Mary popping and she showed us that 😂 she said they forgot to unlock the door
Kevin Kline and Roxanne Hart starred in a play at the Circle in the Square many years ago called Loose Ends. He gave her a gift for her birthday and it ended up in a screaming match where they were on opposite sides of the stage facing away from each other and yelling at the top of their lungs. The audience laughter grew louder and louder because the huge bow from the gift was planted on Kline's butt, like a Playboy bunny's tail. She finally turned, crossed the stage and yanked it off like it was part of the stage business.
I love stage mishaps like the door getting stuck because we get to see the actors try to carry on in character. My personal favorite is an Into the Woods play at my highschool where the cow got stuck partway through wheeling it across the stage so the actor tugged once, twice, looked at the cow, shrugged, then picked it up and carried it the rest of the way across.
Theater actors are quick thinkers cuz they have to go one even when this happens, tv/film actors are used to stop and do again so they may have some trouble in those situations. The magic of live entretaiment
Don’t loose your pants lol 😂
I had a school production of Narnia back in grade 3, and one of the swords of the enemies wound up breaking. The audience laughed when they saw the shocked expression on his face.
i did guys and dolls a few years back (i played a gambler for this specific scene) and right after sit down you're rocking the boat i felt a cough coming on but didn't want to interrupt the whole scene with the cops in the mission because i had a mic and the scene was fairly quiet so i held it in. turns out holding in a cough is not too good for you because i started crying on stage and had to find a way to play it off :))
That first one, she played that off beautifully.
Well done.
Don’t lose a r shorts
i went to six and anne fully broke her mic and ran off then just appeared five minutes later and still to this day on none of our videos can we find when she came back on
Victor and Victoria reveal was amazing with her taking the wig off loved it
I couldn't even catch some of the bloopers! The actors improvised so well 😅
I would’ve shouted “IVE GOT A BROOM AND IM NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!” During the last one
The first one is even funnier like that! 😂😂😂
During my most recent high school show my spotlight, during my first que of the show (my favorite too because one of the characters points right to me to do it) just wouldn’t turn on :’) about halfway through the first act it just randomly popped back on which was good because we had a duet coming the next scene, which only having one spot wouldnt work for
I actually have two theater fails to share. Both of them happened on the second performance of a show. The first one happened when my theater did Mary Poppins last year, I was a sweep, and me and my friend could not find some of the letters for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. They ended up not making it onto the stage that night, but somehow the cast managed to make it work. The second one happened very recently. I was Karnak in my theater’s production of ride the cyclone, and one night for some reason I froze and it took me so long to say “cue the mariachi band” (I eventually said the line) and the guy who played Noel started improving about his dreams in France and it was hilarious.
They just go with it, some even make funny jokes about it, which is just so talented to use a mistake to make everyone laugh
We had this school play… one of my friends leaned back on the set and well, take a guess.
can anybody tell me what was wrong with the last one (fiyeros broom)? i’ve never seen the show so i don’t know what is meant to happen
He's suppose to be holding a weapon 😂 unless he has powers too, i dont know how much a broom will help in that situation
He’s supposed to be holding a gun since yknow a broom isn’t gonna so much in terms of threatening to harm Glinda lol
It actually became even funnier after that when he gave Elphaba the broom that he swung in with and kept her broom in his hands as the 'weapon' for the rest of the scene. The look on Willemijn's face (the actress playing Elphaba) was priceless
One time I was in Shrek, the musical, and for one of the scene changes it was just me and another guy who had to add trees and takeoff like a set piece so I was struggling to pick up one of the trees up and then one of the stationary trees that were on stage fell over, so I just picked it back up, and I had to stand behind it for the rest of the scene
When my theatre did Back to the 80s the volleyball we used for the foskicarskababadogobomx tournament kept rolling off stage for the first weekend so we had a backstage helper make sure it didn’t for the rest of the shows
Edit: I also forgot to add that one of my friends broke her wrist while riding a hover board for the show and I sprained my ankle while running backstage to get a hat
Oh gosh I have a story for this. We were rehearsing and people were up on the beasts (which are like the big 12-feet-high set pieces) and they are NOT supposed to move. Anyway we're all dancing and the beast STARTS TO MOVE as people are on it, almost crushing like 20 people. It was so scary because we all heard screams and then looked over to see the beast moving. Also a side note is that a common saying in my theatre group is "if the beast touches you, you die". So yeah. It was fine in the end, no one was hurt and we all like to joke about it now even though it only happened a few weeks ago. But so terrifying in the moment!
Yo this is fascinating, I enjoy safety/design/emergency prevention topics like this a lot. Can I be a weird nerd at you & ask about what's known about how the structure began to fail? And like have they changed the design for the set pieces' base structure since then?
@@ItsAsparageese Haha you're always welcome to be a weird nerd, I'm totally one too
Structurally, it was pretty sound. They were made from a lot of thick wood beams and supported us with all the jumping and dancing around we had to do. But the problem was that although we had brakes on them, they weren't super secure! So we used some wooden structures to hold them in place better until we could purchase better brakes and really lock them in place! Aaaand that was about all we did. But we tested them a few times after and they worked pretty well and were secure. I wasn't on the stage crew last year, though, so I don't know much, hopefully this answered your question though!
@@ryleem371 Ohhhh! Tbh, due to the set pieces I've seen up close, it totally didn't occur to me that the ones you spoke of may have been on wheels 😆 That totally makes sense lol glad to hear it was a matter of rolling rather than wobbling and wound up being an easy fix! I appreciate you taking the time to indulge my nerdy curiosity 😊
@@ItsAsparageese Oh yeah! I get that confusion haha, they definitely had wheels although we didn't actually move them during the duration of the musical. And I'm glad too! That would have been a tricky thing to fix four weeks before opening 0_o
@@ryleem371 Omg yeah no kidding! Glad it all worked out XD
i was in a high school production of peter pan jr. and during the scene where peter and hook swordfight, hook knocked my (i was peter pan lol) sword out of my hand and it went flying offstage into the audience 😭 thankfully nobody got hurt
Brave but great how they stay cool and funny!
"dont lose your head!"
*loses shorts*
I’m currently rehearsing for a play “Seussical” and in one of the scenes, my castmate has to run and grab a prop item and midway through saying his line he feel down and pretended to do a backflip 💀
❤❤❤❤My college current major is "Theatre", although I know it pertains to musical theatre,acting for the professional camera, and vocal performance----
I had an embarrassing moment happen to me in my first high school theatre production. My school did Legally Blonde that spring in which I was in the ensemble, I was getting ready for the show that night and we were doing notes before. I was running behind and getting these tan heels on so in my schools auditorium there are seven ways to get to the stage. There are three sets of steps, the wings, and the doors that lead to the wings on each side. So the stairs in the side of the stage lead our to double doors and a hallway so I was going from the girls dressing room to the auditorium, and the fastest way is through the double doors that lead to the stage left steps and down to the seats in the lower level (I was doing this with my heels unbuckled and I walked through the doors down the stairs and suddenly I missed a step and fell. I was fine I just reopened some old wounds and they bled but after notes, I went to the bathroom and cleaned the reopened wounds.
FERRRRRYYY dutch wicked!
See, a similar thing happened to Glinda once when I was backstage at a performance of Wicked, I was wondering why she was talking very slowly until I could see that the person behind her was having issue with the safety clip, so she was covering by not queing the music too early. "I did... *know her*.... that is..... our paths.... did..... cross............. (gets the go ahead).... at school."
At one of the touring productions of newsies I saw, at the end when Teddy Roosevelt comes out, his mustache was not staying on. He tried to keep going while trying to re-stick it but gave up on hiding it and ended up saying "I'm Teddy Roosevelt, I promise." Or something like that. Lots of fun.
awesome!!!!!! lmaooooo I would've loved to see that.
I’m dying at the first one.
Britt is a national TREASURE! 💜👑
No, she isn't.
Bravo, greetings from Zagreb, Croatia