Absolutely. you get that stuff out at the rehearsal before tech week. if (Big if) you have a particularly strong cast you can do one during a brush up (assuming your show is infrequent enough to need one), but that's a case by case call.
During a middle school play I was in, one of the 8th graders was notorious for switching off the mic during dress/mic rehearsals and cracking jokes onstage to try and get the other kids to break form (since nobody could hear him while the mic was off). On one of the _actual performance days_ he tried to do that to me after my line "Who's that masked man riding over the next ridge?" but forgot to switch his mic off, so the _entire middle school student body_ just heard the other actor onstage say "Your mom" at full volume he didn't land any lead roles when we got to high school drama club
@nevaehhamilton3493 That is someone getting fired on the spot! Not the sound… not the guilty look… that IS someone getting fired and promptly replaced with a substitute until they find someone fit for the role!
As a theatre kid myself, I know that if ANY techies tried to pull anything like THAT on any one of us during a show my high school director would have ripped them a new one…
My theater teacher and director was the anti Medusa. Everyone got a fair shot at every part. I spent time on stage (sometimes in multiple roles) and backstage (from stagecrew, to makeup and wardrobe, to lights and sound). And I can tell you with utmost confidence, if ANYONE had pulled a prank in the middle of a performance they would have never set foot in that theater again. RIP Mr. G. You are missed.
Ngl, I would've reamed the tech squad just for CONSIDERING pulling pranks during the *actual show.* Forget being one of the shortest people in my year and raising my voice in volume and pitch, because anger can still make QUITE the impact.
As a theatre tech it causes me physical brain cramps to hear of favouritism and chaos in a performance when caused on purpose! Theatre is supposed to bring people together, and it is a sin for any technician to attempt to sabotage a performance. We do not have attention thrown our way, our job is to support and embolden the performed for the audience, to raise it to new heights I’d love to hear more pirate / theatre stories!
Any theatre kid / techie who goes out of their way to ruin a performance is not someone I’d want to work with, even if it’s just a high school prank. Tho favourited kids probably got a shock when entering the industry
As a former choir kid, the fact that the good boy managed to keep his part going without much issue wasn't a surprise. Part of a good choir performance is remembering what your part is and where it goes in the song, no matter how off-timed and out of key the singing itself had become. This is especially true for smaller choirs. The best performances must adapt as it was better for the whole group to sink together, rather than one try to course-correct and stand out like a sore thumb. To add to this, dick pics means nothing when the choir's stage can literally be anywhere and the surrounding elements can be absolutely overpowering. Nothing like singing long-winded Christmas carols underneath both lights and black lights and seeing the slowly increasing number of wasps gather right above my head.
😅 not the choir kids I know, one was handed a "sword" drawing, and he screamed out, "IS THAT A P8N1S!!??!!?" Thankfully, it was during rehearsal, so only harm was the kids handing the paper around. They had to take it to their parents and get it signed by them.
Okay, judging by the responses, maybe I should set the stage, so to speak. I live in Australia, so summer Christmas. At the end of each year, the choir would go the local historical village (think of an old-looking town designed to teach kids history, aka no window coverings nor air control of any kind) and have an hour to two hour concert running through every Christmas song we learned, both in the current year and in previous years. Think of it as a final concert for the choir more than anything. The performance itself was set up in the town hall, on top of an elevated stage. There, the owners rigged up mics close to the front row and multiple coloured stage lights right above our heads (they weren't normally part of the building), including black lights which boggles the mind to this day. The last thing to note about this place is that the historical village isn't connected to the actual town I came from. It was sitting all by itself, surrounded by untouched bush and wildlife. By now, I hope you can see where this is going. Not five minutes after the stage lights were on, the bugs started coming in, attracted to the light. There were moths, flies and wasps. If you said boo, the mic would pick you up and everyone in the audience would hear it (including the choir conductor and mine was like Medusa, only less obvious and wrapped up in a "good church girl" kind of package, but more vindictive since she didn't have a school to answer to), so all you could do was pray none of the bugs landed on you. After that point, all the other bugs would slowly be chased away as more wasps would turn up, and more, and more, and more, until there was a swarm covering the stage lights. I was in that particular choir for four years and this happened every year without fail. No one was ever stung thankfully, but many of us choir members would have collective horror stories about how close the wasps got afterwards. It's a bizarre experience having your mouth wide open, trying to hold notes for as long as possible before breathing, all the while your face becomes the perfect lubricated cave for bugs to start exploring, should they choose.
You,Ben,and Fredrick did AMAZING and an amazing job handling all that immaturity!And as a choir kid proud of Fredrick part of choir is adapting no matter what
Poor Fredrick, no one should ever have had to gaze upon that "sword." And as a fellow theater kid, I admire how professional the three of you were about it. I'd love to hear more about this performance. I hope you're feeling better and great job to DaneBoe for lending their voice.
Honestly, and as someone who normally doesn’t like crude humor, a person holding a piece of paper with a faulic drawn on it and saying “You can’t hold me to this contract!” Is pretty funny in concept. Gonna steal that for a joke somewhere in my writing career and no one can stop me.
As someone who is a happy permanent crew member in high school I’m happy to see cast members working on set because they usually do a lot of mundane things as we have to do like carrying wood, getting stuff from supplies, and picking up trash.
I absolutely love how you design your characters, absolutely, buttt..... HOW DARE YOU MAKE FREDRICK THAT FREAKING CUTE? HE'S SO ADORABLE OMG I JUST WANNA SQUEEZE HIMM.
Two things. 1. The immaturity of jealousy of your classmates makes me so mad. I’m glad you were able to get out of that. 2. Did I spy a Monty Python reference?
As a stage manager, this is my worst nightmare. I’ve had my fair share of pranks during rehearsal, but I cannot imagine it happening during a live show 😭
@@thomasfoster7387they were either in on it or had absolutely no idea, got most of the blame from the professor or medusa, and then reprimanded the crew, reported it to the director(s) then the crew got reprimanded. This is something that would happen in my school bc all the theatre and choir kids are friends or the same people so if some pranks were pulled they would either be in on it or have LITERALLY no idea. I was the little assistant stage manager who was classmates but not really a friend so no one would have told me and me and my sm were very no nonsense so we would have hated to have been blamed for something idiotic like this. I’m a techie at heart so i always made sure everything went as planned.
I’m not a stage manager, but as someone who has played in the cast of shows since freshman year of high school, pranks are funny during rehearsals, but so help me if pranks happen during any show nights.
My choir in middle school was taught by this eccentric opera singer who had us put on a play for third quarter every year and one of those years we did pirates of penzance. We had a lot of fun with all of the musicals we put on but this was one of my favorites, so I'd love to hear more stories if you got 'em.
I wouldn't be surprised if "Medusa" was actually behind the pranks since none of her favorites were cast in leading roles. She might have been telling the techies subtly to pull pranks on the ones that got roles so that way the next year she would get to cast the roles as she wanted.
@@somerandoladplausibel but honestly she probably won't actually care and put that much effort in. Maybe she encouraged her favorite to talk bad about her but that's probably it. It makes more sense that this came from some entitled teenager brainssscccells.
I'm not a theater kid nor a choir kid but I can tell you that the amount of focus, sheer will power and the TONS of embarrassment that Rebecca recieved just from that scroll alone just shows how much determination she was willing to put up and trying to NOT lose character and to continue on with the show. Believe me, I've had my shares of being pranked and embarrassing moments too 😅😅 (Overall the video was very awesome! Audio, animation, art and vocals were top notch Rebecca! Also I'm glad to hear that you're feeling better now!)
As a theatre kid and an ex-techie (sometimes actor), this is crazy. I can't imagine playing pranks on any actors, because one. It means also pranking the stage manager who's always overworked, and two. It's unprofessional and can ruin the show for EVERYONE. If they really cared about theatre, they would never have done the pranks.
Not even three weeks ago, my school was doing their second performance of our play, and I was a stage manager. The 6-7th graders in the audience were THE WORST that most teachers said they've ever seen. They were constantly laughing at the actors, tripping them in the aisles, and **taking photos of them to post online to make fun of them.** It got to the point that our second act had to be pushed back by several minutes because of the actors crying, and the rest of the play being miserable. Our school even had to try and investigate in order to find out who the children were. Luckily, on our next (and last) show, we pulled things together and had a great time, but it just goes to show who underappreciative some people can be. Being able to shake it off and continue is a skill that a lot of people have to learn to move forward.
gen alpha are awfully crude humoured assholes who think they have it made bc there parents give them everything, or neglect them and lets youtube raise them
i’m a fresh theatre kid, and just started doing it, and listening to these silly stories and you being so confident in your theatre abilities makes me feel really confident because we’re doing a show in february, and i’m gonna try auditioning! i’m super nervous, but just listening to someone who enjoys/feels confident in theatre it really makes me feel like i could get over my anxiety! also, this is basically me saying please share more theatre stories!
The fact that it all happens on a Pirates of Penzance production honestly just kind of makes it all work. An entire show where the premises that the crew is pranking the actors on stage? that is hilarious
I was a part of a choir in high school where the teacher absolutely had favorites. I'm not saying I was the most talented amongst the entire group, but she would completely ban other kids from auditioning for certain parts because she would reserve them for her favorites, which I found to be incredibly unfair. Making my life a total hell, I will say that the pettiness and the favoritism within the art departments, seems to be widespread, and I really think that they should be ashamed of how they treated the kids who finally got leads in this show.
Please Captain Rebecca! Give us more stories of your theater time! I'm so glad you three still pulled it off and some guy was nice enough to tell you about the prank even when he forgot the half of it. I'm also so glad you finally god a lead role in a play. The best ones have to shine too.
I recently did my first high school play and I would just like to say, it was very impressive for Fredrick, a “newbie”, to keep his composure after that. During our play, someone fell right before a very serious and important part of scene and one the primary actresses was practically in tears laughing. So just great job to Fredrick.
It absolutely warms my heart hearing fellow actors and techies bond over their shared experiences and instant reactions to this tale, Lord knows how flabbergasting this would be for any of us to face during a production, a live show no less.
Being both a techie and an actor in my school’s shows, I can gratefully say that this sort of thing only goes on during rehearsals, and not during shows. Thank god. Edit: and I do mean this exact thing. Theatre kids love drawing peepees
It took me a hot minute to realize what that meant. My first thought was that it meant she was going to disintegrate his neck. But, then I reread the "God of Mischief" part and remembered what Thanos did to Loki. 😅
I think this is the first case I see of a double meaning meaning the same (for what Thanos did to Loki in the movie and using Thanos as a substitute of "snap").
As both a theater techie and theater actor, that gives me the MOST amount of anxiety ever. Whoever schemed up something like that wouldve gotten BEATEN in our program omg
same here my program has a teacher that's about to explode any minute if that happened on stage you best believe the entire tech class would be thrown to detention and probably suspension if she could push it
I once had to perform in a pit orchestra for a musical in high school, the lead singer was clearly not listening to the pit and blasted through the song, so randomly you could here the conductor yell out "37!" for us to go to the measure and the entire audience could hear it. I will never forget that night
I recognized the song right away because "The Model of a Modern Major General" is perhaps the most famously recognizable song ever. I've heard it time and time again and still love it. Your rendition and parody of it was brilliantly done. This was a great story and I would love to hear more. Also you're a very lovely woman, I mean that sincerely.
two things: 1) I would absolutely LOVE a second part, this video was the light of my day. 2) I cannot be the only one who just NEEDS becca in an actuall movie, musical or a play. she can sing, act and who knows what else! love you, becca
I learned about inappropriate things at an age too young for my own good 🤭 BUT CONGRATULATIONS ON GETTING THE FREAKING PART FOR ONCE!! I’m so happy you experienced one of the best moments of your life this way. Really, I feel better just hearing about it :) RESPECT FOR REBECCA!
Mid-show pranks are kinda the perfect way to turn any rehearsed program instantly into a snippet of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Something I think Becca would just kill at.
I remember I watched the last showing of pirates of Penzance in my local theater. Since it was the actors last day the kept doing unscripted funny things such as shooting water guns at each other and the orchestra, while the orchestra fought back with the bows for the violins, sticks for the drums, etc... It was a fun night.
I did lighting/set tech for various community/high school theaters for 10 years. While pranks and mishaps can suck, they do make for funny stories later on.
As a theater girl who really cares about my appearance on stage I can agree that this would be the worst prank ever. If you didn't have such a witch of a theater teacher I would've told somebody (the Assistant Principal perhaps) Just wanted to note that I have watched most of your video's and I really love your channel Glad you are doing well after your surgery ❤❤❤❤❤
Former Techie here, one time we had a mishap on stage where a prop broke during rehearsal and a lot of the techies in the wings started laughing just loud enough to be heard and we all got chewed out. If we did anything like that during a performance we all would've been orbital striked in the amount of fury our teacher would've had
As a proud member of my theater club’s costume crew, pulling a prank on the cast members is a terrifying thought. But if that were to happen I would have full faith in the cast members to keep going, as I’ve seen firsthand that there amazing improvisers. And as Lead of my costume crew I would make sure that a prank like that Would never happen, not on my watch.🙂 and have a nice day/night.
As an actor and theater kid myself I love my backstage crews. You guys make the show possible and I would never even consider that they wpuld try and play pranks lol.
@_Koi.Art_ every single techie I've personally met was extremely professional on show nights. Of course there was goofing off and pranks durring rehearsals but never on a show night
As a theatre kid, OHHHH BOY have I experienced many a prank during shows. Not really DURING the show, because my theatre friends have more sense than that, but I remember one time back when I did Into the Woods(since I was Cinderella’s Ghost Mom) one of my friends took the silver cape I was wearing and hid it an hour before showtime. I found it shortly after tho, and we just laughed it off 😂
I happen to be in theatre tech, and though nobody has ever played a prank that I know of, during one of our scene changes a guy accidentally pulled off both pairs of pants he had on and had to do a song in his boxers, we were all so proud he stayed in character
I would LOVE to hear more of your theatre stories!! My town’s summer theatre program did Pirates of Penzance one year, and that scene at the beginning of the second act is one of the handful I remember (due to it happening when I was still in elementary school.) Glad you and the others in the scene were able to keep it together, accidentally breaking character on stage is SO stessful
I would love to hear more pirate/theatre stories! While I wasn’t in a theatre group at school or outside of it, I have sisters who were. The stories they told me about favourites, the backstage drama and of course, bullying disguised as ‘pranks’, did put me off auditioning for anything. But when I graduated, I was happier helping backstage at a local theatre group my sisters went to and thankfully, most of these ‘pranks’ were off stage. Mostly it was an unwritten rule that if you pulled a prank during performances, your head would end up on a stake.
Love how a Gilbert and Sullivan parody has an interesting story behind it! As a former theater kid, I get the struggle of trying to cut it in a musical. I tried out for two musicals and failed both times. I was able to make it into a play my junior year, though, and it was one of my fondest high school memories. Also no, the tech crew didn't pull any pranks on us. Since it was a big cast, most of us played tech crew while offstage, and there was only one non-cast tech person and she was really friendly. There was a time we were doing improv games as practice and the main girl got me to leave the stage in one sentence playing "Bus Stop" by saying she was on her period. XD
As someone who also did theatre, I always love watching these types of videos! I would love to see more stories from this play, or any other theatre production you're willing to share with us. I hope the holidays are treating you well and that 2024 will be a golden year for your channel.
My class had to cut short on a song when I lost my voice for a concert, when I watched the video the song only lasted for a couple keys cause the pianist skipped 2 whole pages.
As a proud sound effects manager in my school's drama club, I'm glad to say that this never happens when we put on our plays since the actors don't need to do two things at a time.
My Lady~ always makes me believe in myself for acting because if i forget the script i'll just do my improve with funny jokes I REALLY WANNA DO ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND THE TALES OF SCROUGE!!!
No joke my local theater just did a show of Pirates of Penzance just last month. I'd never heard of it before then but it's one of my favorite musicals now, absolutely hilarious. Massive props to you, Ben, and Fredrick for holding it together through those pranks. Takes a lot for people (especially high schoolers) to keep a straight face and stay on script despite the unforeseen circumstances. And I'd love to see a follow-up video later about the rest of your high school Penzance show!
This one hits so close to home, so close. Being both choir and theater kid, me and a few others were targets for pranks on the stage (mainly rehearsals) but this prank happened opening night. Luckily our production was "A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum" which has plenty of Forth-Wall breaks, so... ultimately, opening night, a pranked happened and we rolled with it, and decided to include it for the remaining nights cause the audience loved it so much. I.E; Happened during "Everybody ought to have a Maid" song were a prop was thrown from back stage to being off stage at the feet of the crowd (with the intention to being broken). Those of us preforming the song needed the prop to pass along among ourselves, so, to get the prop, we turned the first to rows of the audience into a conga line that went from them back to the stage and a different cast member leading the audience back to their seats as the song was nearing the end.
My group pulled a prank on our director at the last showing of our shows every time by hiding a picture of his face and then revealing it in dramatic fashion. It was harmless and very fun for everyone, especially the audience who usually absolutely packed the theater on the last show every single time to see it. Good times 😂
As a actor and theater techy I find the fact that the actors had to do tech hilarious 🤣 I know very very few people that do both and honestly I don't get why it's so much fun!!! {Also glad you got to finally get a lead role in front of Medusa and show her that she is totally missing out on having a amazing actor play a lead!!!}
For those of you wondering, the loophole in question was that the contract stated that Frederic was to remain with the pirates until his 21st birthday, but being born on a leap day means that technically wouldn't happen until his 80s.
I grew up watching you and I'm now a theater kid, a theatre and band kid. I'm only a techie though, I barely had the courage to even sign up for that but I'm glad I did because our small little group of techies is so nice and amazing.
I love to imagine myself as an audience member witnessing all of this, seeing your panicked reactions and wondering what on earth was on that scroll to make you three stutter so much.
Thank goodness that Robbie got his conscience back and warned you. But that oversight, oh boy. But yes. PLEASE give us more of these stories. You're excellent at telling them and i'm learning more about theater.
As someone who also did theatre, I always love watching these types of videos! I would love to see more stories from this play, or any other theatre production you're willing to share with us. I hope the holidays are treating you well and that 2024 will be a golden year for your channel. As a former choir kid, the fact that the good boy managed to keep his part going without much issue wasn't a surprise. Part of a good choir performance is remembering what your part is and where it goes in the song, no matter how off-timed and out of key the singing itself had become. This is especially true for smaller choirs. The best performances must adapt as it was better for the whole group to sink together, rather than one try to course-correct and stand out like a sore thumb. To add to this, dick pics means nothing when the choir's stage can literally be anywhere and the surrounding elements can be absolutely overpowering. Nothing like singing long-winded Christmas carols underneath both lights and black lights and seeing the slowly increasing number of wasps gather right above my head.
I'm an assistant lights and sound manager for my high school (were currently working on the show Harvey). And we DEFENETLY did pull some pranks on the actors while working on previous shows like Guy's and Dolls XD
Medusa sounds so much like an evil stepmother I had who was somehow an even bigger control freak and narcissist that I’m scared further theatre stories might bring up something close to PTSD. There’s one moment permanently etched into my synapses, I might need to talk to someone about that. That being said; it’s you telling the story so I’ll happily watch it anyway, you do amazing work!
Wow! I was on the edge of my seat for this because it was all just too relatable. You perfectly captured the dread I felt when _I_ was the lead role in my first show! I was the innocent golden retriever boy who somehow pulled through and held it together amidst the chaos that always comes from a drama club, lol Anyways, the way you tell stories is so entertaining, and I hope you tell more about your theater club in the future!
As someone who’s been following you for years it was so satisfying to see Medusa removed from power so lil high school Becca could get the role she deserved
That was so cruel of those pranksters trying to mess with you guys during the play. They were jealous of you because you are better than them. And yes, I want to hear more theater stories from you. P.S. Why don't you apply for Broadway? You have the voice and talent. Go for it. If anything, you can be Eliza from Hamilton.
I can’t believe some high schoolers would do a prank like that, yet at the same time I can.😰 That’s insane, and this story was so interesting! Can’t wait to hear more!❤❤❤
One director I've worked with in a number of shows has a policy that if there are any pranks or otherwise intentional shenanigans that make a performance different than the others, she will never cast them again. (And it's community theater, so she otherwise casts anyone/everyone who auditions.) I'd love to hear more theater stories!
I like that you added in Mr. Krabs’ eyes when Frederic saw what was on the map, it was also nice that you didn’t write what it actually was, instead censoring it in many ways. 8:03 Justice is about to be served
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As a theater techie the idea of pulling a prank on the actors IN THE MIDDLE OF A SHOW gives me an aneurysm.
Absolutely. you get that stuff out at the rehearsal before tech week. if (Big if) you have a particularly strong cast you can do one during a brush up (assuming your show is infrequent enough to need one), but that's a case by case call.
YES if someone pulled a prank right actually in a show I'd disintegrate immediately
I urge you to never read Be More Chill
During a middle school play I was in, one of the 8th graders was notorious for switching off the mic during dress/mic rehearsals and cracking jokes onstage to try and get the other kids to break form (since nobody could hear him while the mic was off). On one of the _actual performance days_ he tried to do that to me after my line "Who's that masked man riding over the next ridge?" but forgot to switch his mic off, so the _entire middle school student body_ just heard the other actor onstage say "Your mom" at full volume
he didn't land any lead roles when we got to high school drama club
You had 666 likes I changed it to 667. I saved you from the devil, you're welcome
Rebecca: Fits role perfectly.
Other theater kids: And I took that personally.
Medusa had a hand in it too allegedly.
hate how accurate that is to the story as well as theater in general
It's called jealousy and it really makes people demonic
@nevaehhamilton3493 That is someone getting fired on the spot! Not the sound… not the guilty look… that IS someone getting fired and promptly replaced with a substitute until they find someone fit for the role!
Rebecca: *fits a role perfectly*
Medusa: I'll pretend I didn't see that.
As a theater kid I have to give you and your scene partner Ben credit for how professionally you took the situation in front of the audience.
and frederick too
They did a good job
Rebecca, Frederick and Ben definitely saved the show. Especially with the….ummmm…. drawing that was taped on the scroll 😐
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1:25 “the monster has been chained” dude I love that animation the eyes you can see the happiness
I love that part!!
Me too!! The opera playing in the background was a nice touch to add to the humour
I know it was so beautiful 😊
That part SENT ME! 😂
As a theatre kid myself, I know that if ANY techies tried to pull anything like THAT on any one of us during a show my high school director would have ripped them a new one…
Ditto
Oh yeah
Can confirm that Heads would roll
Mine too. he has some strict rules he did.
I honestly just hope after the show they told one of the adult staff members so they could handle the situation.
My theater teacher and director was the anti Medusa. Everyone got a fair shot at every part. I spent time on stage (sometimes in multiple roles) and backstage (from stagecrew, to makeup and wardrobe, to lights and sound). And I can tell you with utmost confidence, if ANYONE had pulled a prank in the middle of a performance they would have never set foot in that theater again. RIP Mr. G. You are missed.
I think we had the same theatre teacher
Rip Mr G :(
Who be is Mrs G
dude i also had a theater teacher that was exact same way, and her name is mrs G, the only difference is that she is still alive
@@pig_rabbit6944 What was your High School mascot?
"Anti-Medusa"? Now I have this bizarre mental image of a snake with little human females emerging from its skull!
The fact Becca survived worst prank is proof shes a woman of focus, commitment and sheer feckin will, respect
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'Arr Ye Feckin' Irish'?
DUDE TOUCH SOME GODDAMN GRASS
The show must go on, right?
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Ngl, I would've reamed the tech squad just for CONSIDERING pulling pranks during the *actual show.* Forget being one of the shortest people in my year and raising my voice in volume and pitch, because anger can still make QUITE the impact.
People scream in terror when they see spiders, and those are smaller, quieter, AND can't hold a knife
SAME!
Hell hath no fury like a short person scorned! ❤
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im an actor, and 100% agree. you do that shit in rehearsal!
As a theatre tech it causes me physical brain cramps to hear of favouritism and chaos in a performance when caused on purpose!
Theatre is supposed to bring people together, and it is a sin for any technician to attempt to sabotage a performance. We do not have attention thrown our way, our job is to support and embolden the performed for the audience, to raise it to new heights
I’d love to hear more pirate / theatre stories!
Yeah the techies are here to do everything they can to save any mishaps not ruin the show for anyone else
Any theatre kid / techie who goes out of their way to ruin a performance is not someone I’d want to work with, even if it’s just a high school prank.
Tho favourited kids probably got a shock when entering the industry
I agree greatly
Always down for more theatre stories plz 😀👌
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As a former choir kid, the fact that the good boy managed to keep his part going without much issue wasn't a surprise. Part of a good choir performance is remembering what your part is and where it goes in the song, no matter how off-timed and out of key the singing itself had become. This is especially true for smaller choirs. The best performances must adapt as it was better for the whole group to sink together, rather than one try to course-correct and stand out like a sore thumb. To add to this, dick pics means nothing when the choir's stage can literally be anywhere and the surrounding elements can be absolutely overpowering. Nothing like singing long-winded Christmas carols underneath both lights and black lights and seeing the slowly increasing number of wasps gather right above my head.
That last sentence stopped me in my tracks-
Errm?! Care to expand on that last part, cause what the heck!?
If I see one wasp consider me skedaddled
😅 not the choir kids I know, one was handed a "sword" drawing, and he screamed out, "IS THAT A P8N1S!!??!!?" Thankfully, it was during rehearsal, so only harm was the kids handing the paper around. They had to take it to their parents and get it signed by them.
Okay, judging by the responses, maybe I should set the stage, so to speak. I live in Australia, so summer Christmas. At the end of each year, the choir would go the local historical village (think of an old-looking town designed to teach kids history, aka no window coverings nor air control of any kind) and have an hour to two hour concert running through every Christmas song we learned, both in the current year and in previous years. Think of it as a final concert for the choir more than anything. The performance itself was set up in the town hall, on top of an elevated stage. There, the owners rigged up mics close to the front row and multiple coloured stage lights right above our heads (they weren't normally part of the building), including black lights which boggles the mind to this day. The last thing to note about this place is that the historical village isn't connected to the actual town I came from. It was sitting all by itself, surrounded by untouched bush and wildlife.
By now, I hope you can see where this is going. Not five minutes after the stage lights were on, the bugs started coming in, attracted to the light. There were moths, flies and wasps. If you said boo, the mic would pick you up and everyone in the audience would hear it (including the choir conductor and mine was like Medusa, only less obvious and wrapped up in a "good church girl" kind of package, but more vindictive since she didn't have a school to answer to), so all you could do was pray none of the bugs landed on you. After that point, all the other bugs would slowly be chased away as more wasps would turn up, and more, and more, and more, until there was a swarm covering the stage lights. I was in that particular choir for four years and this happened every year without fail. No one was ever stung thankfully, but many of us choir members would have collective horror stories about how close the wasps got afterwards. It's a bizarre experience having your mouth wide open, trying to hold notes for as long as possible before breathing, all the while your face becomes the perfect lubricated cave for bugs to start exploring, should they choose.
You,Ben,and Fredrick did AMAZING and an amazing job handling all that immaturity!And as a choir kid proud of Fredrick part of choir is adapting no matter what
Poor Fredrick, no one should ever have had to gaze upon that "sword." And as a fellow theater kid, I admire how professional the three of you were about it. I'd love to hear more about this performance. I hope you're feeling better and great job to DaneBoe for lending their voice.
Agreed
Omg I swear we watch the exact same things
dude i see you like everywhere 😭
do we watch the exact same youtubers
Felt bad for all of them
i swear, i've seen you EVERYWHERE and i mean EVERYWHERE
Honestly, and as someone who normally doesn’t like crude humor, a person holding a piece of paper with a faulic drawn on it and saying “You can’t hold me to this contract!”
Is pretty funny in concept.
Gonna steal that for a joke somewhere in my writing career and no one can stop me.
send me a link when you're done so I can read it
*phallic
@@krystaloftheshoresphallus
Or phallic drawing
@@kittylittle1808 oh so that’s how you spell it.
Wow I was way off.
Thanks.
@@PantherCat64 No problem! Wasn't expecting such receptivity
As someone who is a happy permanent crew member in high school I’m happy to see cast members working on set because they usually do a lot of mundane things as we have to do like carrying wood, getting stuff from supplies, and picking up trash.
I absolutely love how you design your characters, absolutely, buttt.....
HOW DARE YOU MAKE FREDRICK THAT FREAKING CUTE? HE'S SO ADORABLE OMG I JUST WANNA SQUEEZE HIMM.
Ayo
@@creatorB-25grow up
@@creatorB-25huh
Same bro he kinda gives the same vibes as my crush
Two things.
1. The immaturity of jealousy of your classmates makes me so mad. I’m glad you were able to get out of that.
2. Did I spy a Monty Python reference?
When
Idk
I spotted a SpongeBob one
@@TinaTirendid bro .... nvm
@@l.psimer6124I think I spotted a good omens reference 😭
As a stage manager, this is my worst nightmare. I’ve had my fair share of pranks during rehearsal, but I cannot imagine it happening during a live show 😭
I wonder how the stage manager in this case dealt with all this
@@thomasfoster7387they were either in on it or had absolutely no idea, got most of the blame from the professor or medusa, and then reprimanded the crew, reported it to the director(s) then the crew got reprimanded. This is something that would happen in my school bc all the theatre and choir kids are friends or the same people so if some pranks were pulled they would either be in on it or have LITERALLY no idea.
I was the little assistant stage manager who was classmates but not really a friend so no one would have told me and me and my sm were very no nonsense so we would have hated to have been blamed for something idiotic like this. I’m a techie at heart so i always made sure everything went as planned.
I’m not a stage manager, but as someone who has played in the cast of shows since freshman year of high school, pranks are funny during rehearsals, but so help me if pranks happen during any show nights.
as a theatre kid, the thought of someone MOONING me mid show is horrifying, i’d love to see more of these lol
My choir in middle school was taught by this eccentric opera singer who had us put on a play for third quarter every year and one of those years we did pirates of penzance. We had a lot of fun with all of the musicals we put on but this was one of my favorites, so I'd love to hear more stories if you got 'em.
I wouldn't be surprised if "Medusa" was actually behind the pranks since none of her favorites were cast in leading roles. She might have been telling the techies subtly to pull pranks on the ones that got roles so that way the next year she would get to cast the roles as she wanted.
@@somerandoladplausibel but honestly she probably won't actually care and put that much effort in. Maybe she encouraged her favorite to talk bad about her but that's probably it. It makes more sense that this came from some entitled teenager brainssscccells.
I'm not a theater kid nor a choir kid but I can tell you that the amount of focus, sheer will power and the TONS of embarrassment that Rebecca recieved just from that scroll alone just shows how much determination she was willing to put up and trying to NOT lose character and to continue on with the show.
Believe me, I've had my shares of being pranked and embarrassing moments too 😅😅
(Overall the video was very awesome! Audio, animation, art and vocals were top notch Rebecca! Also I'm glad to hear that you're feeling better now!)
As a theatre kid and an ex-techie (sometimes actor), this is crazy. I can't imagine playing pranks on any actors, because one. It means also pranking the stage manager who's always overworked, and two. It's unprofessional and can ruin the show for EVERYONE. If they really cared about theatre, they would never have done the pranks.
Not even three weeks ago, my school was doing their second performance of our play, and I was a stage manager. The 6-7th graders in the audience were THE WORST that most teachers said they've ever seen. They were constantly laughing at the actors, tripping them in the aisles, and **taking photos of them to post online to make fun of them.** It got to the point that our second act had to be pushed back by several minutes because of the actors crying, and the rest of the play being miserable. Our school even had to try and investigate in order to find out who the children were.
Luckily, on our next (and last) show, we pulled things together and had a great time, but it just goes to show who underappreciative some people can be. Being able to shake it off and continue is a skill that a lot of people have to learn to move forward.
Gen Alpha is doomed 💀
@@RyanSoltani i agree but what does gen alpha have to do with this comment?
@@almost_raymond the 6-7th graders were being menaces and since this story happened a few weeks ago then the 6-7th graders must be gen alpha
@@RyanSoltani ohhhhh right, forgot about that detail
gen alpha are awfully crude humoured assholes who think they have it made bc there parents give them everything, or neglect them and lets youtube raise them
i’m a fresh theatre kid, and just started doing it, and listening to these silly stories and you being so confident in your theatre abilities makes me feel really confident because we’re doing a show in february, and i’m gonna try auditioning! i’m super nervous, but just listening to someone who enjoys/feels confident in theatre it really makes me feel like i could get over my anxiety! also, this is basically me saying please share more theatre stories!
Good luck, I hope you get the part you want 😊
You got this!!
You're going to do great!!
It may be late for your audition, but I hope you broke a leg!
The infinity war refrece got me
The fact that it all happens on a Pirates of Penzance production honestly just kind of makes it all work. An entire show where the premises that the crew is pranking the actors on stage? that is hilarious
"How many times have you listened to this?"
Us: *YES*
I was a part of a choir in high school where the teacher absolutely had favorites. I'm not saying I was the most talented amongst the entire group, but she would completely ban other kids from auditioning for certain parts because she would reserve them for her favorites, which I found to be incredibly unfair. Making my life a total hell, I will say that the pettiness and the favoritism within the art departments, seems to be widespread, and I really think that they should be ashamed of how they treated the kids who finally got leads in this show.
Looks like there are many Medusa like teachers among us
@@RyanSoltanimost theater teachers seem to be
Ooooooh art departments are petty af
Please Captain Rebecca! Give us more stories of your theater time! I'm so glad you three still pulled it off and some guy was nice enough to tell you about the prank even when he forgot the half of it. I'm also so glad you finally god a lead role in a play. The best ones have to shine too.
Medusa getting put in her place is so satisfying to hear. Good on Rebecca!
8:37 YES!!! An Animaniacs reference! 😆
AGREEe
I feel bad for the kid playing Fredrick but he handled that without freaking out, so props to him, especially since it was his first time
I recently did my first high school play and I would just like to say, it was very impressive for Fredrick, a “newbie”, to keep his composure after that. During our play, someone fell right before a very serious and important part of scene and one the primary actresses was practically in tears laughing. So just great job to Fredrick.
It absolutely warms my heart hearing fellow actors and techies bond over their shared experiences and instant reactions to this tale, Lord knows how flabbergasting this would be for any of us to face during a production, a live show no less.
1:25 the monster.. has been CHAINED✨
Being both a techie and an actor in my school’s shows, I can gratefully say that this sort of thing only goes on during rehearsals, and not during shows. Thank god.
Edit: and I do mean this exact thing. Theatre kids love drawing peepees
“Come here God of Mischief, so I can Thanos that neck of yours!” REBECCA THAT WAS FOUL 😭
It took me a hot minute to realize what that meant. My first thought was that it meant she was going to disintegrate his neck. But, then I reread the "God of Mischief" part and remembered what Thanos did to Loki. 😅
I think this is the first case I see of a double meaning meaning the same (for what Thanos did to Loki in the movie and using Thanos as a substitute of "snap").
That was the most beautiful insult ever I loved it
As both a theater techie and theater actor, that gives me the MOST amount of anxiety ever. Whoever schemed up something like that wouldve gotten BEATEN in our program omg
same here my program has a teacher that's about to explode any minute if that happened on stage you best believe the entire tech class would be thrown to detention and probably suspension if she could push it
I once had to perform in a pit orchestra for a musical in high school, the lead singer was clearly not listening to the pit and blasted through the song, so randomly you could here the conductor yell out "37!" for us to go to the measure and the entire audience could hear it.
I will never forget that night
I recognized the song right away because "The Model of a Modern Major General" is perhaps the most famously recognizable song ever. I've heard it time and time again and still love it. Your rendition and parody of it was brilliantly done.
This was a great story and I would love to hear more. Also you're a very lovely woman, I mean that sincerely.
I love how Rebecca keeps portraying her animated self as super unhinged, it makes it so entertaining to watch!
two things: 1) I would absolutely LOVE a second part, this video was the light of my day. 2) I cannot be the only one who just NEEDS becca in an actuall movie, musical or a play. she can sing, act and who knows what else! love you, becca
I learned about inappropriate things at an age too young for my own good 🤭
BUT CONGRATULATIONS ON GETTING THE FREAKING PART FOR ONCE!! I’m so happy you experienced one of the best moments of your life this way. Really, I feel better just hearing about it :) RESPECT FOR REBECCA!
Mid-show pranks are kinda the perfect way to turn any rehearsed program instantly into a snippet of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Something I think Becca would just kill at.
I remember I watched the last showing of pirates of Penzance in my local theater. Since it was the actors last day the kept doing unscripted funny things such as shooting water guns at each other and the orchestra, while the orchestra fought back with the bows for the violins, sticks for the drums, etc... It was a fun night.
0:50 you can never ever animate a character lying unconscious on the ground without at least one of the poses being THIS one
I swear movies or shows doing the Family Guy dead pose is funny
@@israeljrjuan2682honestly it’s a good excuse to use the pose now a days cause it funny it just works.
I did lighting/set tech for various community/high school theaters for 10 years. While pranks and mishaps can suck, they do make for funny stories later on.
Absolutely more pirate stories, please! Major props to you for keeping in character through that insanity
I wanna know if Medusa's kids who pulled the prank were punished
As a theater girl who really cares about my appearance on stage I can agree that this would be the worst prank ever. If you didn't have such a witch of a theater teacher I would've told somebody (the Assistant Principal perhaps)
Just wanted to note that I have watched most of your video's and I really love your channel Glad you are doing well after your surgery ❤❤❤❤❤
Very proud of Frederick for continuing the show despite the shocking and stupidly funny scroll in his view.
I love hearing fellow theater kids tell there funniest stories from highschool theater.
8:09 “COME HERE GOD OF MISCHIEF SO I CAN PROPERLY THANOS THAT NECK OF YOURS” -Rebecca 2023
Love an Infinity War reference
Ahem 8:14
I understood that reference
I’m realizing now what she means when she wants to “THANOS” his neck
@@em.loves.dr.pepper yup… RIP Loki
Former Techie here, one time we had a mishap on stage where a prop broke during rehearsal and a lot of the techies in the wings started laughing just loud enough to be heard and we all got chewed out. If we did anything like that during a performance we all would've been orbital striked in the amount of fury our teacher would've had
As a proud member of my theater club’s costume crew, pulling a prank on the cast members is a terrifying thought. But if that were to happen I would have full faith in the cast members to keep going, as I’ve seen firsthand that there amazing improvisers. And as Lead of my costume crew I would make sure that a prank like that Would never happen, not on my watch.🙂 and have a nice day/night.
Happy holidays :D
As an actor and theater kid myself I love my backstage crews. You guys make the show possible and I would never even consider that they wpuld try and play pranks lol.
@@hadeskingoftheunderworld7010 lol ikr like sure we’re known for being crazy but not that level of crazy my god
@_Koi.Art_ every single techie I've personally met was extremely professional on show nights. Of course there was goofing off and pranks durring rehearsals but never on a show night
8:30 YES PLEASE 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
As an acting student myself I noticed something odd about your VO for the video.
You have...so much energy. And yes, being a theater kid, that tracks.
🎉rfc🚇🚘🚒🛴🐜🦄🐴
8:05
“He didn’t tell us the scroll! Rattle em boys!”
Bang bang bang bang bang
Why did he sound like Pear from AO
@@zombie_gamer2122 I think it was if you look in the description or something
*ROBBIE!!!!!!!!*
@@kailynrowe-uw4lx wat
As a theatre kid, OHHHH BOY have I experienced many a prank during shows. Not really DURING the show, because my theatre friends have more sense than that, but I remember one time back when I did Into the Woods(since I was Cinderella’s Ghost Mom) one of my friends took the silver cape I was wearing and hid it an hour before showtime. I found it shortly after tho, and we just laughed it off 😂
I happen to be in theatre tech, and though nobody has ever played a prank that I know of, during one of our scene changes a guy accidentally pulled off both pairs of pants he had on and had to do a song in his boxers, we were all so proud he stayed in character
Note taken: Never prank a theatre kid, Even if you become one, Don’t prank other theatre kids.
Oh no you can totally prank a theatre kid! Just make sure it’s not right in the middle of the show or during last min rehearsals..
And make ABSOLUTELY certain you don’t come clean, after all, you can’t make up for your misdeeds if you’re dead
I would LOVE to hear more of your theatre stories!! My town’s summer theatre program did Pirates of Penzance one year, and that scene at the beginning of the second act is one of the handful I remember (due to it happening when I was still in elementary school.) Glad you and the others in the scene were able to keep it together, accidentally breaking character on stage is SO stessful
I would love to hear more pirate/theatre stories!
While I wasn’t in a theatre group at school or outside of it, I have sisters who were. The stories they told me about favourites, the backstage drama and of course, bullying disguised as ‘pranks’, did put me off auditioning for anything.
But when I graduated, I was happier helping backstage at a local theatre group my sisters went to and thankfully, most of these ‘pranks’ were off stage. Mostly it was an unwritten rule that if you pulled a prank during performances, your head would end up on a stake.
if you pulled a prank during a live performance, down with witch in the trials they say. but in seriousness it would be well deserved
1:34 THE FACES I CAN'T-
Love how a Gilbert and Sullivan parody has an interesting story behind it!
As a former theater kid, I get the struggle of trying to cut it in a musical. I tried out for two musicals and failed both times. I was able to make it into a play my junior year, though, and it was one of my fondest high school memories.
Also no, the tech crew didn't pull any pranks on us. Since it was a big cast, most of us played tech crew while offstage, and there was only one non-cast tech person and she was really friendly. There was a time we were doing improv games as practice and the main girl got me to leave the stage in one sentence playing "Bus Stop" by saying she was on her period. XD
It’s honestly disgusting how petty they were! Also I would love to hear more stories from this play!!
As someone who also did theatre, I always love watching these types of videos! I would love to see more stories from this play, or any other theatre production you're willing to share with us. I hope the holidays are treating you well and that 2024 will be a golden year for your channel.
6:42 Choir kids can also carry on with the songs if the teacher/director made a mistake like playing the wrong piano key or note
My class had to cut short on a song when I lost my voice for a concert, when I watched the video the song only lasted for a couple keys cause the pianist skipped 2 whole pages.
8:13 "Come here God of Mischief so I can properly THANOS THAT NECK OF YOURS"
I love that joke.
As a proud sound effects manager in my school's drama club, I'm glad to say that this never happens when we put on our plays since the actors don't need to do two things at a time.
Rebecca: That's all the information you're getting from me!
Also Rebbeca: **draws sword, telescope, canon and bone**
We know exactly why she was talking about
@@Abb-overseerI don't.
I don't get it...
@@supermario1460 Your to innocent Now i think Bowser is racing without you
@@supermario1460 mario is telling mario its a cock
@@supermario1460penis.
My Lady~ always makes me believe in myself for acting because if i forget the script i'll just do my improve with funny jokes I REALLY WANNA DO ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND THE TALES OF SCROUGE!!!
No joke my local theater just did a show of Pirates of Penzance just last month. I'd never heard of it before then but it's one of my favorite musicals now, absolutely hilarious. Massive props to you, Ben, and Fredrick for holding it together through those pranks. Takes a lot for people (especially high schoolers) to keep a straight face and stay on script despite the unforeseen circumstances. And I'd love to see a follow-up video later about the rest of your high school Penzance show!
This one hits so close to home, so close. Being both choir and theater kid, me and a few others were targets for pranks on the stage (mainly rehearsals) but this prank happened opening night. Luckily our production was "A Funny thing happened on the way to the Forum" which has plenty of Forth-Wall breaks, so... ultimately, opening night, a pranked happened and we rolled with it, and decided to include it for the remaining nights cause the audience loved it so much. I.E; Happened during "Everybody ought to have a Maid" song were a prop was thrown from back stage to being off stage at the feet of the crowd (with the intention to being broken). Those of us preforming the song needed the prop to pass along among ourselves, so, to get the prop, we turned the first to rows of the audience into a conga line that went from them back to the stage and a different cast member leading the audience back to their seats as the song was nearing the end.
That sounds like a lot of fun honestly.
My group pulled a prank on our director at the last showing of our shows every time by hiding a picture of his face and then revealing it in dramatic fashion. It was harmless and very fun for everyone, especially the audience who usually absolutely packed the theater on the last show every single time to see it. Good times 😂
As a theatre kid, the idea of playing a prank on somebody during the REAL show makes me so mad
8:01 apparently, running to people screaming at them, runs through your family (I guess)
As a actor and theater techy I find the fact that the actors had to do tech hilarious 🤣 I know very very few people that do both and honestly I don't get why it's so much fun!!! {Also glad you got to finally get a lead role in front of Medusa and show her that she is totally missing out on having a amazing actor play a lead!!!}
I'd absolutely be down for more pirate stories. As a former theater kid myself, I love hearing about stuff like this.
7:40 Is that the annoying orange
Yea it’s daneboe
For those of you wondering, the loophole in question was that the contract stated that Frederic was to remain with the pirates until his 21st birthday, but being born on a leap day means that technically wouldn't happen until his 80s.
Now THAT is funny.
As someone who has theater kid energy and is working to get into some kind of acting, I can enjoy the focus you needed to get past the prank
I grew up watching you and I'm now a theater kid, a theatre and band kid. I'm only a techie though, I barely had the courage to even sign up for that but I'm glad I did because our small little group of techies is so nice and amazing.
I’d love more videos about this play! It sounds so great
I love to imagine myself as an audience member witnessing all of this, seeing your panicked reactions and wondering what on earth was on that scroll to make you three stutter so much.
Thank goodness that Robbie got his conscience back and warned you. But that oversight, oh boy.
But yes. PLEASE give us more of these stories. You're excellent at telling them and i'm learning more about theater.
As someone who also did theatre, I always love watching these types of videos! I would love to see more stories from this play, or any other theatre production you're willing to share with us. I hope the holidays are treating you well and that 2024 will be a golden year for your channel.
As a former choir kid, the fact that the good boy managed to keep his part going without much issue wasn't a surprise. Part of a good choir performance is remembering what your part is and where it goes in the song, no matter how off-timed and out of key the singing itself had become. This is especially true for smaller choirs. The best performances must adapt as it was better for the whole group to sink together, rather than one try to course-correct and stand out like a sore thumb. To add to this, dick pics means nothing when the choir's stage can literally be anywhere and the surrounding elements can be absolutely overpowering. Nothing like singing long-winded Christmas carols underneath both lights and black lights and seeing the slowly increasing number of wasps gather right above my head.
I'm an assistant lights and sound manager for my high school (were currently working on the show Harvey). And we DEFENETLY did pull some pranks on the actors while working on previous shows like Guy's and Dolls XD
The chuckle that Ben did, fricking killed me- (5:29)
He sounds like that Sans "Hey babygirl.." meme
He’s so adorable 😂
6:50
if i was doing that part: did one of your pirates draw a dick on this scroll
Medusa sounds so much like an evil stepmother I had who was somehow an even bigger control freak and narcissist that I’m scared further theatre stories might bring up something close to PTSD. There’s one moment permanently etched into my synapses, I might need to talk to someone about that.
That being said; it’s you telling the story so I’ll happily watch it anyway, you do amazing work!
Hope you get better, and uh, maybe get a therapist? Idk I haven’t dealt with this a lot
becca really needs to make another one of these, its really entertaining !
1:49 This moment reminds of the OG evil theatre teacher video, where Becca does her evil crazy laugh. Love it 😂
Rebecca is the embodiment of ‘the show must go on’
Wow! I was on the edge of my seat for this because it was all just too relatable. You perfectly captured the dread I felt when _I_ was the lead role in my first show! I was the innocent golden retriever boy who somehow pulled through and held it together amidst the chaos that always comes from a drama club, lol
Anyways, the way you tell stories is so entertaining, and I hope you tell more about your theater club in the future!
As someone who’s been following you for years it was so satisfying to see Medusa removed from power so lil high school Becca could get the role she deserved
That was so cruel of those pranksters trying to mess with you guys during the play. They were jealous of you because you are better than them. And yes, I want to hear more theater stories from you.
P.S. Why don't you apply for Broadway? You have the voice and talent. Go for it. If anything, you can be Eliza from Hamilton.
I can’t believe some high schoolers would do a prank like that, yet at the same time I can.😰 That’s insane, and this story was so interesting! Can’t wait to hear more!❤❤❤
One director I've worked with in a number of shows has a policy that if there are any pranks or otherwise intentional shenanigans that make a performance different than the others, she will never cast them again. (And it's community theater, so she otherwise casts anyone/everyone who auditions.)
I'd love to hear more theater stories!
I like that you added in Mr. Krabs’ eyes when Frederic saw what was on the map, it was also nice that you didn’t write what it actually was, instead censoring it in many ways.
8:03 Justice is about to be served