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| Posted by: MistressAndy 03:56 pm 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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| When Kristen and Idina were in Wicked, they took a week's vacation. I saw their first performance back. During the scene... prior to? After? Popular, I think Kristen's SHOE came off. She then went to get it and did what was very clearly the bend and snap (pre-Legally Blond the musical) and adlibbed some other ridiculous line. Idina couldn't keep it together at ALL, which then made Kristen go off. The scene went so off the rails she said something to the affect of, "Well clearly that's what happens when you give US a week off!" and they spend almost a full minute getting themselves back on track. In Hello, Dolly with Bette, very early in previews, Bette was leaving Vandergelder's Hay and Feed during Sunday Clothes and actually fell off the platform. She windmilled her arms around and thankfully didn't fall, but shouted, mid number, "Well, it's live theatre folks!" I've heard she then might have put it in as a bit? But I only saw it that once. Finally, during Little Night Music with Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch, during Liasons someone started SCREAMING in the audience for a doctor. Elaine stopped about a line later, the person continued screaming until Elaine finally shouted, "Can someone PLEASE turn the lights on and HELP that person?" At which point the house lights DID come up. Stephen Buntrock came onstage for Elaine, you could see him sort of stroking her and saying, 'How are you? Are you alright? Do you need anything?" and Stritch waved him off. They removed the person, but right before Stritch began she looked at the audience and said, 'You're not going to believe what my next line is." Before launching into, 'Now where was I?' and the audience lost their collective minds. |
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