| re: What are the 'best' onstage mishaps that you've seen in live theater? | |
| Posted by: dmcree 08:59 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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| Three memories, i’ll try to be brief: Most serious mishap - Billy Elliot in London. As the bedroom set lowered into the floor for Billy’s big number after his father said he couldn’t go to the dance audition/school, the young man jumped from the bed platform to the floor and missed! Fell down into the trap, but caught himself and was hanging by his fingers. Stage managers ran out to pull him to safety. Performance stopped, of course. After 20 minutes or so, the management announced the young man had been sent to the hospital to be checked out, and they would start the 2nd act with a different Billy and finish the show. The boy came out of it fine, but when I later saw the show in NY, there was a railing and the exit was much more controlled. Funniest - most recent revival of The Women on Broadway. Crystal is in the tub, on the phone . Gets angry with the caller, bangs the phone receiver on the edge of the tub and it breaks in half. She continued the conversation with half a receiver while the audience shook with laughter. Many smaller casualties in this performance. Silliest - college production of Peter Pan. Early bedroom scene, the dog comes in and Peter and the kids hide (this moment is used in the script to attach the flying wires to the actors while they are off-stage). Dog leaves, actors come back out, Peter starts “I’m Flying” but Wendy is suddenly jerked in the air. Right wire on wrong actor. Peter starts singing “You’re Flying”, backstage is pandemonium, audience very confused (or something). As with all of us who have seen/been involved in theatre for a long time, there are many, many stories. |
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