| re: What are the 'best' onstage mishaps that you've seen in live theater? | |
| Posted by: wwxyz 01:34 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: What are the 'best' onstage mishaps that you've seen in live theater? - GrumpyMorningBoy 10:15 am EST 12/20/17 | |
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| Cabaret on Broadway in the late 1980s. Regina Resnick and Werner von Klemperer were Mrs. Schmidt and Herr Schulz; at one point they are hiding behind a door while the prostitute and her boyfriends sneak out of the apartment; then they come out, sit on the couch center stage which has tracked out from the wings, and sing the Pineapple Song. The couch didn't get set right, and as it came on stage it slowly turned around until it was facing upstage when it stopped. There was no way to warn the actors; so the first they knew was when they opened the door onstage and saw it. They looked at it for a moment with admirably straight faces, and then stood in front of it and did the song. 'Sherlock's Last Case' at the Nederlander, also in the late 1980s; at one point a (real) pigeon flies through the window of Sherlocks apartment with a message on its leg. The animal handler grabbed the backup bird and didn't realize it in time; the bird flew in the window and landed on the table like it was supposed to, but when it saw Frank Langella coming for it it freaked out and flew out into the house, where it flew around for a while and then landed on top of the proscenium. At which point Frank Langella found a note in his jacket pocket with the message on it! Amazing! (Good planning, actually). A couple stagehands managed to catch the bird at intermission. That was also the show where a gunshot knocks the skull off a groody skeleton in a dungeon torture chamber; since there was no orchestra pit in the show the skull would occasionally roll off the stage and into the audience. The prop man had to argue pretty hard with audience members a couple times to get it back after the show. |
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