| re: What are the 'best' onstage mishaps that you've seen in live theater? | |
| Posted by: wwxyz 01:07 am EST 12/21/17 | |
| 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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| This was actually offstage, and it wasn't exactly a mishap, but it was funny... 'Sunday in the Park with George' was one of the first shows on Broadway to have computer automated scenery. The computer board had a bunch of extra push buttons that lit up but didn't actually do anything. The original operator was joking around with the little girl in the show and told her that every time she pushed the button it sent a missile to Moscow, or something like that. (Not very PC, but whatever.) So every time she went by (it was set up in the basement where the actors crossed over) she would run in and push the button a couple times. Unfortunately, the operator didn't think to warn the new sub he was training, and the first night the guy was there by himself the little girl ran in and started pushing buttons and he practically had heart failure. Also not exactly mishaps: Sweet Charity on Broadway in the 80s; the actress was finishing her run that week and decided to have some fun at the matinee. Every time she came on stage she was wearing a different wig; in the opening scene where she falls into the lake in Central Park (really the orchestra pit) she usually threw out a small fake fish before she climbed back out; this day she threw out a real one that was about two feet long; in the scene where she's hiding in the closet she completely changed clothes while the scene was going on. Those are the things I remember; there were others. The audience must have been mystified; those of us who didn't have to go onstage thought it was pretty funny; the other actors, not so much. |
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