I’m in the middle of a horror story right now, after seeing that all of my props work had been undone by someone else, who replaced them all with anachronistic props. I just want to know who else has had really bad experiences on shows, and what happened!
*In a murder mystery play I was in, the lights never went out for the first and most dramatic murder… the rest of the play hinges on the speculation of who killed the first person in the dark.
*During a rehearsal and actor fell of the stage into the orchestra pit way below. It was a serious accident… bad concussion, broken bones, and had to have his spleen removed.
*One actor was very sick during a performance and left the stage to throw up in the wings… in the second act, someone had to go on with the script for him.
*Another sad one… during the rehearsal period, one actor had a stroke… he was okay, but not well enough to continue with the show.
*Kids in the audience trying to trip the actors as they made crosses through the audience
*An actor breaking a tray of glasses in the middle of a performance on stage… which had to be cleaned up since the show had several fights following the scene
*One show I was in had scene changes that took longer than the scenes themselves. The show itself got good reviews, but everyone complained about the long and pointless scene changes.
*I had a director write me really inappropriate and sexually suggestive notes… and asked me if I believed in open relationships, since he knew I was involved with someone. Besides being 20 years his junior. Ick!
*During a big battle in the Scottish Play… they had stobe lights going off and one of them temporarily blinded and disoriented one of the combatants (Banquo), but everyone was good and trained so the person he was fighting just swung his mace around a bit until Banquo was ready again.
*An audience member at a children’s theatre production letting their child jingle keys and then throw them onto the stage, getting the keys again and handing them back to their child to do it all over again.
*Friar Tuck always coming to performances hung over & not listening to the fight director on how to fall and throwing himself into the stage instead and finally breaking his wrist
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