Into The Woods FAIL

[@Saynt614]

"He'll be fine" ... lmao this was a WIN not a FAIL

[@gabevandyke3630]

Captain Cartman But the best part is that Milky White is a girl! 😂

[@blainevanity6]

@@gabevandyke3630 yes, but Jack has always called Milky White a She/Her

[@briella1645]

@@blainevanity6 him/he

[@alyjiyu]

Taking it in stride & milking it for all it was worth...👏🤙

[@SabinaCabanero]

@@blainevanity6It Jack’s Mother who says it’s a she hehe

[@JordanR1621]

LOL at the person slowly putting the leg back on the stage!!!!

[@TonkaJay]

hahaha. I didn't see that. That's funny.

[@QuikVidGuy]

It's a show very geared toward audience participation

[@TonkaJay]

Audience reaction makes the show all the better.

[@danielweddell7319]

It was someone from the pit orchestra.

[@QuikVidGuy]

Daniel Weddell It really looked like it was in front of the stage, and way too far to the right to be from the pit's opening

[@MrBanankartong]

Someone said "break a leg" before the show and he took it literally...

[@broadwaybaby3935]

I'm cRYiNg

[@andrewlong5126]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 DEAD

[@isabelerhart9523]

Yes 🤣

[@thegrinch1210]

Lol

[@Daniel-uj1nu]

Most people don’t know, “legs” refer to the curtains you see on the sides of the stage. Y’all’s wishing them to have a good entrance and a good show. 100% get what you’re saying though haha you make a great point.

[@bernadetteb3124]

As an actor, I LOVE this. Both characters stayed in character and made it an enjoyable mishap. Love it!

[@alanyy.z]

True in my school I'm the mysterious man

[@SoNowWhat01]

right after the leg goes flying theres this moment of just complete and utter bewilderment and its freakin amazing

[@davidmsirois]

or udder bewilderment ;)

[@IrishKeshiHead]

David Sirois "David!" (Magic School Bus Reference.)

[@alpaqa]

@@davidmsirois 2022 here, nowadays we call this “sus 😳”

[@silverstars1]

Utter😳

[@Saynt614]

This isn't a fail. It's a complete win... I love how they both just go with it like it was supposed to happen.

[@eddinn]

this is how you know you got the right actor to play the part

[@layzchips2775]

I do musical theater and I was a guard in the wizard of oz for the witch and my hat kept falling off so the first time I just blindly kept going and then pretended that I just noticed it was gone and picked it up stupidly like it was supposed to happen yeah my teachers yelled at me but I thought it was genius

[@iipeachyblissii]

IMPROV SKILLZ

[@Coconut-rb8ty]

Fun fact the dude is my schools music teacher

[@trinetiger1]

I agree. If an 'fail' happen the best thing is to impro something and stay in characther. They did it amazing.

[@Twocoolman115]

1. Oh my god, this is the funniest thing i've seen all month 2. I gotta hand it to the guy who played jack, he did an awesome job of keeping the scene together. if that was me, i'd be laughing my ass off.

[@hopeb2341]

I'd be dying laughing if I were him too XD

[@camerong3926]

Hes my music teacher lol 😂

[@X_Star_Sprinklez_X]

I would have started crying XD

[@crazysingingchick]

That was a brilliant improvisation! Only added to the show, really!!! LOL!!!

[@buttersstotch407]

Yeah. He played it off really well

[@jackmoody5174]

The actor did great, but that stagehand just ruined the whole thing!

[@shadowdelivery6386]

I bet being Jack in that scene was pure...AGONY...beyond power of speech. The one thing his cow needs was too far out of his reach...

[@rabeawagner5206]

I'm crying 😂😂😂

[@ShashaDivine]

SAME ^

[@kristenconner5705]

I AM IN TEARS 😂😂😂

[@amaccoy]

I think his problem is he reached too far!

[@thegrinch1210]

Me too

[@sorrenpeak4870]

That stagehand is fired. This was by far the best fail I have ever seen on stage.

[@sorrenpeak4870]

A stagehand's job is to never be seen. If you, as a stagehand, are seen, you are ruining the immersion of the audience. If they do have to be seen, it is only during a scene transition. She came out while the lights were still on, actually blocked the actor's exit, then crossed the stage, with the lights still on. She literally broke almost every rule ever.

[@dramamole]

Soren Peak is right, the actor handled it fabulously, the stage hand ruined it. She did break every rule and it took you out of the moment which is why it's a big deal. You don't go see a show to see a tech walking across stage in the middle of the performance. The leg was out of the way it wasn't going to hurt for it to remain there for a bit. She honestly probably went out there because she was told to, so really it's the person who told her to that's really in the wrong.

[@KayMyselfPls]

Emily Cardwell I mean she could’ve a. Waited for him to have left b. Not walked completely across the stage or c. Just left the leg there it wasn’t in the way of anything

[@thegrinch1210]

Yes and the audience enjoyed it cause they were happy

[@SmeiskAudio]

Hmmm... Stagehand probably was early for a scene shift. Also this looks like a high school production, you're not going to find professionals there all the time. Cut them some slack. Also of note, prop evidence of obvious blunders like that can take the audience out of the play if they see that "The leg is still sitting there!", so to speak. So it's better to remove the leg when possible. Really, the actor is responsible for picking up dropped or broken props in character if at all possible to keep it flowing with the story. In short, be nice. Things are often more complicated than it seems.

[@babserella2778]

I can relate. In our production, Milky White's jaw broke nightly. And during closing night, Cinderella's birds crashed to the ground right after she said, "The birds will help! *wham*"

[@JesseColton]

I would be interested to know how the actors responded to that! "Well, when they're back on they're feet again, they'll peck out the giants eyes?"

[@babserella2778]

Well...there wasn't much that COULD be done. Cinderella sort of looked over her shoulder in awkward horror as the audience lost it. The cast took a deep breath aaaand just kept moving along!

[@yuiop608]

babserella2778 In a production I did of ITW our Rapunzel's wig extension tore off during "our little world" and our Witch absolutely lost it

[@karissalund9443]

In our production of Beauty and the Beast our Lumiere had this weird skirt thing to make him look like a candle stick I guess, but it kept falling down throughout the musical. So it happened again after we (me being Mrs. Potts) chased the villagers out of the castle we ran out on stage and were celebrating and I run out and say "I know you're excited dear, but you should really keep your pant on. Poor Chip will have nightmares!" The WHOLE crowd lost it and we had to sit there for a good 5 minutes to wait for them to stop laughing!

[@babserella2778]

Heh, at least your production included that song! So many leave it out, I dunno why. Maybe because it's difficult. But the character development suffers when the song is removed. And I'm also getting a visual of the Witch singing, "Our little world is perfe--*WHAP*"

[@NickyD96]

It's just a flesh wound

[@carlosdezayas2757]

Ikr

[@lukesechrest4864]

lol I'm in both spamalot and into the woods right now

[@maxwhale7706]

I’m glad to be the 100th like

[@ellawitcher2687]

"A boy your age? Why you'd be lucky to exchange her for a sack of beans." "Well I don't know about that." This is quite possibly the funniest video ever!

[@mkaplan1383]

Now that was improv. 😆

[@thaliagrace4444]

wHy didn't the stage crew wait until literally the immediate blackout

[@dylanmcloughlin2187]

I know right? It hurts.

[@renechapa4698]

"he'll be fine" ... priceless! Gotta love live theater! During the first preview of "Bridges of Madison County" on Broadway recently, we watched in semi-horror and bewilderment as Cass Morgan accidentally knocked a desk right off the front of the stage into the orchestra pit (apparently just because she hung up a prop phone too forcefully). Thankfully no musicians were hurt! Thanks for sharing this, Brian. You handled it beautifully!

[@QuikVidGuy]

I hope there's video

[@JustJokingYou]

If that happened to me I would just improvise something like, "Why are you sneaking up on my cow like that? Can't you see he's unarmed?"

[@mikhailashetler865]

OMG that is perfect for that situation.

[@PrycelessIrving]

yeah but you had to think of that. I doubt you would say that if it happened to you

[@hyphuyen4382]

My thoughts exactly like this.

[@colleenjensen639]

And if you listen very closely, you can hear every techie go "Oh shit. Someone get the gaff tape."

[@radiumcarbonhelium9538]

This is as good as when all of Cinderella's birds crashed to the ground. "Good friends!!"

[@N3RDYG0GGLES]

Great acting and recovery there, but I'll never stop laughing at how Jack got such a fright he mutilated the poor cow XD

[@jakeflemming]

When I was in middle school, I played the baker in the jr version and during our last performance, the mysterious man ran into our cow and knocked it over. I had to save the scene by saying "you went cow tipping in the woods"

[@sarahmeredith4853]

Fail? More like Win! That was a fantastic recovery. Staying in character, and great improv lines.

[@ashleybishop4661]

This clip has become a regular part of my beginning acting classes as an example of how to "go on with the show!"

[@BrianAcker1]

I'm honored to be used as an example!

[@AlcmeneUndertaker]

"He'll be fine."

[@TheCart54321]

0:35 meanwhile backstage Props manager😧 Director😳 Producer😱

[@h193013]

Do schools have producers?

[@TheCart54321]

@@h193013I don’t know I was just making a bit

[@staygold2528]

Admit it you replayed it 17 times

[@ellawitcher2687]

Not ashamed to admit that I've replayed it more...this is hilarious

[@abbycollins]

maybe I played it over 40 times...yep I love it

[@Envy_May]

how did you know the exacc number

[@Ninjacow88]

HIS COW NEEDS SOME MILK!!!

[@jamiemannell4957]

I just imagined all the kids screaming 'you killed him!!!'😂😂😂

[@battousaiblade]

that was just awesome!!! nice improv "he'll be fine"

[@TheGrahamHam]

the improv is another layer of good, you said "HE'LL be fine" because jack still thinks Milky White is a male. Bravo

[@amandagriffey2305]

THIS IS HILARIOUS! That's why I love theatre, you never know what might happen! Actors did a great job of handling this, and I LOVE the little audience member's hand that gently puts the rogue leg back up onto the stage.... Fantastic video!

[@zachhaines15]

That stagehand should be ashamed. They really couldn't wait that extra 5 seconds?

[@2doot]

I lost my shit when I saw that guy trying to slowly put the leg back on stage on the bottom left corner. "Here... you dropped this..." XD fucking gold!

[@abbeysquidd]

“Break a leg.” “NO NOT LIKE THAT!”

[@deborahtragasz1218]

HILARIOUS. But am I the only one that things Milky White looks more like a dog than a cow?

[@shadowdelivery6386]

A dog as white as milk

[@trofjaeotjfjswifb4576]

Imagine a dog as big as cow? Cute, funny, but a disaster especially when it loves to run around.😅

[@dracos5872]

extremely unprofessional of the stage hand, just wait until the lights go out! it was gonna happen in a few seconds anyway, she ruined it by walking across the stage

[@sarahy.6686]

Chill i didnt even notice

[@doggyspeak]

AND THE FACT THAT SHE STARTS TO EXIT BY CROSSING UPSTAGE

[@lh9286]

Yeah why would she enter the stage while he was in the middle of his line!!!

[@NERDmNERDf]

See? THIS is the reason we used a person in a cow suit for our play!

[@TonkaJay]

Yeah, but the actor who played Jack was quick on his feet and added to the humor.

[@NERDmNERDf]

Yes. Improvisation!

[@Mr135Jonathan]

ya but the stage crew girl completly broke the illusion!

[@shadowdelivery6386]

My studio did that too! The way the cow suit worked, a leg could've still broken off though...

[@georgia-mn7hl]

We did that also when I did it

[@josims415]

"Come along Milky white, there are spirits here." 😂 For our cow in the play we are having a person dress up as a cow and the person who got picked was my best friend. I sent this to her and I was like, "Paige this could happen to u!" She was so confused.

[@khamilamora09]

Kacey And Friends where did you did the play? at florida?

[@underpantsgnomes4427]

It's now a quarter pounder.

[@abbycollins]

This made my day! :D

[@hyphuyen4382]

Haha! Funny! Imagine he'd be called A quad pounder.

[@brazilian733]

"t'is but a scratch" -Monty Python's Black Knight

[@theadae2494]

WTF why did the stagehand walk on??? She literally had no reason to!

[@lps-emily]

THIS IS AMAZING

[@dreamingofcake2102]

"Break a leg" "Ok"

[@sparklyhotdog8826]

"HElLo jAcK" Milky white: *gets amputated*

[@zzzut]

On stage, the actors are out on a limb...

[@Avatarlover181]

Props to the Mysterious Man's actor for not cracking up during that.

[@eddieferran5471]

"I guess we could rename you IHOP"

[@kristenconner5705]

D E AD

[@jakeketter8764]

damn I'm a theatre beginner I hope this doesn't happen to me XD

[@TheCart54321]

Jake Ketter oh trust me pal It will.....it will😏

[@ryanowens9610]

Hey Brian, you really... MILKED that for laughs.

[@daniellefregoe1467]

Me: Okay! Who *beep* touched the cow?!?! (jk) ~Im in my Drama club's Props Crew and we have a saying along the lines of: "If you break a prop, we'll break you."~

[@overthemoo]

One of the many reasons why live theatre is so great! lol It's kind of fun to work with these situations actually. :)

[@robbobstone]

The show must go on. This is GOLD!

[@mikhailashetler865]

OMG this had me ROTFL Brilliant recovery THIS is what I'm watching if I need a good LONG laugh

[@babserella2778]

I've watched this a dozen times, and it still makes me laugh. This is a master class in improvising when something goes wrong. And honestly, please tell me -- has anyone been in a production of ITW where Milky White _didn't_ break in some manner?

[@BobSullivanAKABuffy]

BRILLIANT RECOVERY! And you sure know how to milk a laugh!

[@leannehaddock6254]

0:27 look at that guy's face!! Hysterical!!!!!!

[@Oblivitana]

The improv skills!

[@davidrule385]

0:25 That brought a whole new meaning to that phrase "break a leg". In this case, Jack does so to Milky White, accidentally.

[@katiesnell5698]

this literally holds the top spot for my favorite video on the internet

[@meganm1559]

I love how he's like "come along, Milky White" and awkwardly exits XD

[@kiwitheparakeettiger1277]

“my god! you’ve broken a leg! what is this, some kind of theater production?!”

[@wiisalute]

it would be even more funny if he held up the leg and said to the man "would you like to buy this?"

[@ajwuzhere6546]

This will forever remain one of my favorite videos

[@DB-jg9fk]

HILARIOUS. kudos to the actors for keeping everything together!

[@hannashein3380]

that was such good acting on jack’s part !

[@valerieregina444]

the best part of this has to be the pit member slowly putting the leg back on stage

[@Ar0474]

"Come along Milky White, there are spirits here" absolutely BEST line hands down! 😂

[@9206156175]

So fun fact, this is my old director

[@thomassherwood5061]

In a comedy, a laugh is technically a win

[@renemendez8738]

After 11 years

[@rydop17]

Milky white:Careful my toe! Jack:Darling I know! Milky white:What will we do? Jack:It will have to go, but when your his bride you’ll have such a life! You will never need to walk! 0:24

[@KingDecahedron]

the cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper as pure as gold

[@miki410]

I had to come here to watch this after hearing about Mr. Sondheim's passing today. I needed something to lift my spirits.

[@stormminstrel]

This video never gets old. :D

[@sagesaria]

Okay, maybe FOUR pounds.

[@babserella2778]

Well played, sir. Well played.

[@TheDeerstalkerHat]

+

[@Geffry993]

my favorite youtube video. PERIOD

[@jonathanmcvay4499]

The only flaw was that Jack didn’t collect Milky White’s leg himself before exiting.

[@Evanthedude227]

I’m in props crew for into the woods jr at my school and this is the funniest fu**ing thing I’ve seen today. “A cow like that is worth those beans!” “Idk about that” 🤣🤣

[@mcguirek16]

0:25 “Hello Jack!”

[@thegrinch1210]

Cow:*legs falls off* Actor:*gets embarresed*😦 Audience *cheer and clap*

[@X_Star_Sprinklez_X]

When your leg breaks off and your mom makes you go to school anyways

[@Chipster321]

how does this not have more views.

[@theaterbat]

I was *not* expecting that.....the video's been over for five minutes and I'm still laughing like heck!

[@jenniferp9136]

This is by FAR one of the best stage mishaps I've ever seen omfg

[@gamepopper101]

In fairness, Into the Woods is probably the best musical for something to go wrong and actors to play it off.

[@VerchielxKanda]

I love how you played it off as part of the show! Great job!! ^_^

[@danielweddell7319]

*Cow's leg flies off* "He'll be fine!"

[@aerofool66]

This is one of the many things that makes community theater so enjoyable!

[@duddust]

OMG Mr. Acker that was the funniest thing ever thanks for showing that to us

[@dominickwardian4919]

Every theater persons worst nightmare… I know this too well… 2013 Dracula Westside high school… I played Dracula and every night of the performance we needed to get a new mirror because I kept breaking them…. My director did say to make it look realistic.

[@hydrangea2291]

oh my god im in a production of into the woods right now and im so glad we're having a person play milky white

[@G10_GIO]

Cow go BRRRRRRR

[@MGFMable]

i like how he kept going after that accident. the show must go on.

[@supermagnus6987]

now he's got some lean beef

[@cicholdebannan]

Loved the "mysterious hand" that placed the leg back up on stage.

[@broadwaybarb]

I can't stop watching this. I think I hurt myself laughing. Thank you for sharing!

[@TECfan1]

Thats why you dont make animal props out of foam. xD

[@elizaisntthere2051]

RIP Milky White

[@lillianward2810]

Maybe my favorite blooper of all time, especially with the person pushing the leg gently back onstage.

[@otomodachifan]

LOL! Do you have the full show? And when was this filmed?

[@TEXTUALactivity]

I want to to know that this video has brought me so much joy over the years. I will literally never forget this until the day I die. 🐮♥️😂

[@BrianAcker1]

I'm so happy to hear this video has made such a positive impact on you!

[@jonathanbond5740]

I really wish you uploaded the whole thing...