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Post by Popular Glinda on Jul 10, 2004 12:19:38 GMT -5
I was thinking about all the hilarious moment I've had a rehearsal for various shows and I was like "This would make a really funny thread!" so here are my favorite rehearsal moments:
- Whenever Nate, the kid playing Smee, has an out burst with "Holy balls!"
- Having to rehearse in the parking lot b/c the rehearsal hall was locked
- Having to stand in for one of the Step-Sisters in Cinderella, and then having to play her part at a fund-raiser
- Playing hide-and-seek in the basement of the rehearsal hall in the creepy storage rooms
- Contemplating religion...for fun
- Belting out Wicked tunes and upsetting everyone who has no idea what in the world Wicked is
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FlyingHigh
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Post by FlyingHigh on Jul 10, 2004 12:50:56 GMT -5
Oh gosh, I have so many. They're all tucked away somewhere in my brain. I'll have fun reading other peoples'.  |
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Post by WicKayed on Jul 10, 2004 15:31:06 GMT -5
Yeah. I'll have to take time to remember all of mine too... but here are a couple...
- I had to stand in for the lead during a recent Fourth of July parade. I'm Annie's understudy in "Annie Get Your Gun", so I mostly know her material... but I definately masacered the order of the verses in "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun". ;D
- Another 'AGYG' moment: The guy playing Tommy is supposed to sing, "Say that it is, and I'll die!" to Winnie during "Who Do You Love, I Hope?". Weeelll... a few rehearsals back, he sang "Say that it is, and you'll die!" instead... all of us who were supposed to be frozen onstage burst in to giggles. Kinda changed the romantic comedy feel of the song!
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wickedOlivia
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Post by wickedOlivia on Jul 10, 2004 18:11:27 GMT -5
best one I can think of is...
making fun of the most diva person I've ever met with a fellow cast member only to realize she was taping her performance and you could see us in the background pointing and laughing....
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Post by ElphieatShiz on Jul 11, 2004 14:00:54 GMT -5
When my high school did Once Upon a Mattress, there was a scene where the prince had to throw a rubber chicken off stage. At one rehearsal, it hit a person, so every time after that, the person ducked. The funny thing is, each day another person ducked, added to the original person who ducked. |
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Post by FaeAtShiz on Jul 11, 2004 15:57:36 GMT -5
To those involved, some things are funnier when you know the actors and you've seen the play. I didn't realize I had many long explanation ones, but here goes...
Same version of Once Upon a Mattress as ElphieAtShiz:
-Our lead guy playing the prince came late to a rehearsal, but the band (which had me in it) had to practice his song, which was "Song of Love." So the choir director (also the singing director for the play) filled in for our lead guy. He started to do it his way (aka the way it should be done) and then had to change that to do it the lead guy's way, which was way funnier.
-same day, one of the lead actresses was doing a scene with the same guy who was gone, and it was funny to watch her doing all her actions to the air while the voice filling in came from the audience. She looked kinda like she was crazy b/c she was talking to an invisible person.
-different day, we're rehearsing a different guy's song, and he sees his cue but doesn't sing. He said "was I supposed to sing?" and the choir director said "yes, this is a musical."
-the prince is supposed to talk about a prophecy involving a mouse devouring a hawk. the actor messed up the line by saying that the hawk ran away and the mouse bit his father. then he said "no, that's not the line."
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Post by StageFiyero on Jul 12, 2004 2:32:45 GMT -5
Yes, talking to air happens a lot.
But it's even funnier when the girl has lost her voice and the man director is filling in her lines while she mouths the words... oh man it was so hard not to laugh. And it was Our Town too... so the third act was pretty weird. At least it was only a rehearsal...
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Post by Popular Glinda on Jul 12, 2004 10:40:31 GMT -5
There's a part when the Indians (I accidently typed Idinas at first lol) are chasing the Lost Boys and I go to center and yell "STOOOOOOOOOOOP!" but one day I yelled "FIYERRRRRROOOOOOOO!" instead. Only a few people got it and the director was like, "Um...sure...". It was funny.
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Letty
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Post by Letty on Jul 13, 2004 19:00:45 GMT -5
LOL
- ok well this is kinda gross but in music man dress rehersal, we were doing "Ya Got Trouble" and somebody farted on stage and it stunk SOOO bad adn everyone stopped singing and like ran off..LOL
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Post by WicKayed on Jul 14, 2004 7:31:23 GMT -5
I just remembered a couple more! I did my first semi-professional show this past winter: "Fiorello!". It was a great experience to work with actors being paid for what they were doing (can you imagine??  ), but more than that, it taught me that you can have blooper rehearsals ANYWHERE on ANY level of theater. ;D - Tech Rehearsal: They were trying to get the sound balance right on the very opening scene, so our lead actor playing Fiorello wound up sitting in the center of a darkened stage "reading" to a group of children for about 15 minutes while things were set. When he finally started delivering his lines, there was an abrupt LOUD explosion of static. John: "And I remember when a lot of corrupt men were running our fair city. Way back in 1919 when--" **STATIC** John: (winces) It rained like hell. llam!! - Another tech rehearsal moment: We did the show like they do Encores at City Center, so those of us in the ensemble had to sit on our butts in onstage chairs for large portions of the show. Anyway, during one song called, "The Bum Won", a member of the cast decided to re-christen the song: "My Bum's Numb". |
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Post by StageFiyero on Jul 14, 2004 9:56:23 GMT -5
...actors being paid for what they were doing (can you imagine?? ) Yes. ;D Anyway, I've noticed that you have to be there for a lot of these to be funny... |
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Post by MJRWicKeDFaN89 on Jul 14, 2004 10:00:46 GMT -5
Today at rehearsal for our show "Seussical" something funny happened and its related to Wicked!!
This guy who is playing the Mayor of Whoville was supposed to say the line "youre defying all rules of description" and by accident he said "your defying all gravity." and it was pretty funny..He probably did that because we were just singing DG before rehearsal..
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Letty
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Post by Letty on Jul 14, 2004 10:54:29 GMT -5
LOL! aww Seussical is my 4th fave show!! what's ur part?? I really wana be Gertrude! lol..sry to get off topic..
Oh this wasnt a rehersal one but an opining nght blooper
-in "Music Man" we were doing the library scene and we all had books that we danced around with..and my friend Chelsea was in the very front and she was lifting her book up in the air but let go by accident and it went flying into the audience and hit a guy in the head..lol
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Post by MJRWicKeDFaN89 on Jul 14, 2004 15:16:42 GMT -5
Mrs. Mayer of Whoville llam...I got called back for Gertrude and wanted that part too but a senior got it  |
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Letty
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Post by Letty on Jul 15, 2004 4:18:36 GMT -5
aww thats ok! that's still a pretty big part! i hope i do that play in highschool! lol
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), but more than that, it taught me that you can have blooper rehearsals ANYWHERE on ANY level of theater. ;D
