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Some of my castmates in the Three by Tenn were also in The Long Christmas Ride Home with me. Last night, we got around to talking about our favorite flubs, and I wanted to record these:
This was fun because it was at KCACTF. In the play, the family goes to dinner at their grandparents' house and gets Christmas gifts from their grandparents and their father. They're meant to get the grandparents' gifts first, and then the father's gifts are cued by the line:
NARRATOR/MAN: And then the father handed out three gifts to his children.
Only, the actor said it about three lines too early. He looked at the man played the Minister, grit his teeth and hissed out "Shhiiiiiiiit."
The audience couldn't hear it (in fact, the actors playing the children were about a yard away and didn't hear), but it was funny hearing about it later.
Probably my favorite of the two. The grandfather and father get to arguing about money. Part of the exchange is meant to go like this:
NARRATOR/MAN: And then the father said: "Three children!"
MINISTER: And then the grandfather said: "You shouldn't have more children than you can take care of!"
Followed by NARRATOR/WOMAN saying something about the grandfather sharpening his knives, which the actor usually did pretty calmly, running the blade of one "knife" against the other gently.
What was said:
NARRATOR/MAN: And then the father said: "Three children!"
MINISTER: And then the grandfather said: "Three children! ...don't... care about you!"
[beat of silence]
[MINISTER turns and basically starts punching the air from the force of his "knife sharpening"]
I started to comment on the actual prompt, but didn't want to seem like I was bitching out the requester for wanting the fluffy side of things, so I'm doing it here.
Backstage Shenanigans...
Tales of the missing costumes...
While reading all the comments about the concert, one thing that people kept saying was how they got in and out of their costumes so fast. I had my fair share of school theater to know that it could get really crazy backstage. Now my prompt is: The cast, most probably the girls plus Chris (Bad Romance) are going nuts backstage because they're costumes are no where to be found. The ones on stage are told to stall and the crowd are not aware of what's happening at back (Mercedes/Amber riffs through songs longer than necessary perhaps?) while Lea, Heather, Dianna, Naya, Jenna and Chris run around in their undies in search of their clothes.
Bonus points if it were Mark and Cory who'd hidden the costumes :D
Now, when I first read this prompt, I was horrified. I still kind of am.
Chris is a self-professed theatre geek, and if there's one rule of backstage performance theatre it's "If you don't use it, don't. Touch. It. I can only see this situation turning angsty when he goes off on Mark and Cory.
I don't know if requester has done any actual theatre work or, if they have, have ever been in this situation, but this is not the fun type of "backstage shenanigans." In the last show I was in, we had a large cast and pretty much every single scene required a quick-change. Like, so quick that most of us actually cried with joy when they let us ditch the wireless mics for stationary hanging ones onstage, simply because it took about ten extra seconds for us to switch them from costume-to-costume, get it situated properly, and tuck the cord and powerpack somewhere hidden.
During the run of the show, each of us had a minor breakdown backstage because someone had moved a costume piece or a prop that we needed, like, five seconds ago. My buggy (which at least five castmates plus the stage manager had seen me set) somehow ended up stage left in a closet and I had words with the people who used a similar prop and I'm a pretty ~go with it~ kid of girl. I mean, we improvised an entire scene in Fuddy Meers when my joint got lost in my hair.
I can see where the requester might find the situation fun for the cast (running around in their undies looking for costumes seems like a rom-com situation, yes?), but it's not. When it's something you've been rehearsing for months, and something goes majorly wrong, it's not a fun situation to be in.
I swear I'm not taking this prompt too seriously and I hope someone fills it for them, it just touched a nerve that had been prodded at recently. Bleh.
This was fun because it was at KCACTF. In the play, the family goes to dinner at their grandparents' house and gets Christmas gifts from their grandparents and their father. They're meant to get the grandparents' gifts first, and then the father's gifts are cued by the line:
NARRATOR/MAN: And then the father handed out three gifts to his children.
Only, the actor said it about three lines too early. He looked at the man played the Minister, grit his teeth and hissed out "Shhiiiiiiiit."
The audience couldn't hear it (in fact, the actors playing the children were about a yard away and didn't hear), but it was funny hearing about it later.
Probably my favorite of the two. The grandfather and father get to arguing about money. Part of the exchange is meant to go like this:
NARRATOR/MAN: And then the father said: "Three children!"
MINISTER: And then the grandfather said: "You shouldn't have more children than you can take care of!"
Followed by NARRATOR/WOMAN saying something about the grandfather sharpening his knives, which the actor usually did pretty calmly, running the blade of one "knife" against the other gently.
What was said:
NARRATOR/MAN: And then the father said: "Three children!"
MINISTER: And then the grandfather said: "Three children! ...don't... care about you!"
[beat of silence]
[MINISTER turns and basically starts punching the air from the force of his "knife sharpening"]
I started to comment on the actual prompt, but didn't want to seem like I was bitching out the requester for wanting the fluffy side of things, so I'm doing it here.
Backstage Shenanigans...
Tales of the missing costumes...
While reading all the comments about the concert, one thing that people kept saying was how they got in and out of their costumes so fast. I had my fair share of school theater to know that it could get really crazy backstage. Now my prompt is: The cast, most probably the girls plus Chris (Bad Romance) are going nuts backstage because they're costumes are no where to be found. The ones on stage are told to stall and the crowd are not aware of what's happening at back (Mercedes/Amber riffs through songs longer than necessary perhaps?) while Lea, Heather, Dianna, Naya, Jenna and Chris run around in their undies in search of their clothes.
Bonus points if it were Mark and Cory who'd hidden the costumes :D
Now, when I first read this prompt, I was horrified. I still kind of am.
Chris is a self-professed theatre geek, and if there's one rule of backstage performance theatre it's "If you don't use it, don't. Touch. It. I can only see this situation turning angsty when he goes off on Mark and Cory.
I don't know if requester has done any actual theatre work or, if they have, have ever been in this situation, but this is not the fun type of "backstage shenanigans." In the last show I was in, we had a large cast and pretty much every single scene required a quick-change. Like, so quick that most of us actually cried with joy when they let us ditch the wireless mics for stationary hanging ones onstage, simply because it took about ten extra seconds for us to switch them from costume-to-costume, get it situated properly, and tuck the cord and powerpack somewhere hidden.
During the run of the show, each of us had a minor breakdown backstage because someone had moved a costume piece or a prop that we needed, like, five seconds ago. My buggy (which at least five castmates plus the stage manager had seen me set) somehow ended up stage left in a closet and I had words with the people who used a similar prop and I'm a pretty ~go with it~ kid of girl. I mean, we improvised an entire scene in Fuddy Meers when my joint got lost in my hair.
I can see where the requester might find the situation fun for the cast (running around in their undies looking for costumes seems like a rom-com situation, yes?), but it's not. When it's something you've been rehearsing for months, and something goes majorly wrong, it's not a fun situation to be in.
I swear I'm not taking this prompt too seriously and I hope someone fills it for them, it just touched a nerve that had been prodded at recently. Bleh.