Broadway Actor & Fan React To Musical Theatre Fails/Bloopers!

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- Sam & Ryan

[@aimeequick3567]

"Is home boy doing a crossword puzzle" i think im dead 😂😂

[@MythicKae]

Are you the dead girl falling

[@loganzimmerman3080]

During a show at my school there was a mailbox that the main actor had to unlock. The key happened to not work and without missing a beat the actor goes "I think I have a spare around here" and the tech crew was right on it sticking a single hand out with the key and everyone laughed it off and the show went on without a problem.

[@0c3anofstars]

that’s fantastic HAHAH

[@annasies]

Hahahah that's awesome

[@_lLexa_l]

THAT'S AMAZING XD

[@coyotix]

Fun fact about the Idina Menzel one- Right when she runs off stage and is asked for her number. She runs off stage and says “I don’t know either, it’s a new phone!”

[@calebb.6416]

But seriously though. No one thought to check for props? Or made sure she HAD one?

[@Skittl1321]

I feel like If/Then had some weird problems. When I saw it, poor Idina started choking on oatmeal, right before she needed to sing. A water bottle slowly came up from the pit for her to get a drink, but she couldn't stop coughing, so the guy starts reading the paper to the audience, telling us about a sale at Macy's- "nope, sorry, this paper's a prop, that sale is way over" then finally calling over to her "You know, we are doing a show- are you ready yet?" But just like Sam said- the audience feels like it is such a "moment" to get to be a part of. And once she was able to clear the food out of her throat, man did she sound amazing. (That same week there was also a set fail at Matilda that took a 30+ minute reset, because they have to get all the kids off the stage if there is a malfunction, as opposed to something like Wicked where the adults just continue around the piece as though it had gone off stage like it was supposed to. The man who played Matilda's father came out and juggled to entertain the audience.) In retrospect, I've seen a lot of mistakes on broadway. Live theater is the best.

[@TaraLeeGee]

@@Skittl1321 wow weird I had two things happen when I saw if/then too! She started coughing through a song and had to restart and then at some point a prop (I can't remember what. Maybe a photo frame?) fell and her and the lead guy both got the giggles. Honestly it made it more memorable, but I wonder if there was something weird going on

[@danielhicks1834]

@@calebb.6416 it’s her job to do that. She messed up. Just like she messed up her voice as Elpheba.

[@briellec7173]

@@danielhicks1834 ​ if you’d ever been in a professional theater production, you’d know they have props managers and costume folks to take care of this, definitely wasn’t Idina’s responsibility

[@isabelmarie2003]

"Got no time to talk im a dead girl falling..."

[@ellyanawilson7342]

You started comparing the locker room to the dressing room and the first thought in my mind was, “what dressing room?”

[@arkon2560]

Same. from my experience the “dressing room” is whatever classrooms are available near the stage.

[@lilyslilcreations]

same. our dressing room was the jr high bathroom that no one wanted to go in.

[@KWils249]

Our dressing room was in the basement (which was also the green room) and there was ✨toxic mold✨no other students were allowed in the basement except the theatre kids cuz that's where we got ready.

[@acadiaw9305]

same!

[@AllycatlovesAG]

We never had a football team in highschool and our gym locker room was quite old. Our theatre dressing room wasn't much better, but people always vaped in there so I avoided it and changed in a classroom

[@kimbrulee_the_musical]

Speaking of theater fails, last year when I was in seventh grade, we did Into the Woods. (I was Jack’s Mother!) The girl playing the steward was supposed to say “shut up,” but she was so nervous that she accidentally said “shit up” instead. Our audience was about 95% kindergarteners.😂 That night we had another performance, and she was so determined not to mess up her line again that she kept repeating “shut up” over and over again. But when we got to the part where she was supposed to yell “stop!” from offstage, she yelled “shut up!” instead, which was funny. But then somebody told the girl's mother, and she got in trouble for saying “shit” in front of five-year-olds.

[@dudecamera6693]

I was jack in my production and in act 2 opening when I was supposed to say “look milky white it’s the butcher” I said “look milky white it’s the bitcher”

[@Def.Not.Scarlett.]

I was doing into the woods(i was cinderella) and we had someone playing milky white. My mic backfired(as you probably know when mics backfire they make a really loud popping noise) and the actor playing milky white was shocked and said ‘JESUS CHRIST!’ My school is a Christian school and our audience for that show was all elementary schools. She was given a choice. Either get suspended and have her role stripped or write an apology letter to all the schools in attendance. She chose option #2.

[@jellykonesproduction]

There's something about Into the Woods. We had more mishaps than I've seen in any show I've done. Cinderella's slipper went flying into the audience, we lost power in the middle of Agony (and they finished the song in the dark), and Prince Charming's pants split down the back on the wooden horse 😂

[@patrickgomes2213]

Fun Home lost electricity on our gala opening “night”. Thankfully it was a matinee and we opened up the blackout curtains and did numbers from the show to enter the audience.

[@jihyohalo]

out little red threw bread into the audience, milky whites head came off during it takes two, and our rapunzels whole wig came off when the witch rips the end of her hair off, girl went bald right before blackout😭😭into the woods is such a fun show but so much can go wrong

[@oliviac3120]

during mine, we used a fog machine that set off the fire alarm in the middle of our second show. nearly everyone left (following the evacuation) and only like 20 people came back LOL

[@oliviatuck2686]

the dead girl walking / crossword thing could’ve been a high school tech week rehearsal. there was also a man on the stage in a folding chair

[@lowlighttravels4775]

I recently saw a production of rent and during Maureens performance she 'tangles' herself in the mic cord by turning around and then turns the other way to untangle, but she really got stuck and it was hilarious. Because the scene is so chaotic and it really added even more of that energy to it. :)

[@sunfevr]

i love how Ryan is like "i want his roof to cave him but *him and his family are okay.* "

[@KWils249]

There was a time I froze on stage and it was towards the end of my monologue so it wasn't too noticeable for the audience. But once I got off stage my nose started bleeding and it was a gushing bloody nose. I had to use a prop blanket as a tissue and I couldn't go back on stage for the rest of the show (which luckily it was already towards the end)

[@shayne_has_landed2511]

There should be an unofficial club for theatre actors that have gotten a bloody nose in the middle of a performance.

[@AviKapsner]

I saw Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman melt down on stage and just start laughing in Music Man a few months ago. It was so funny the audience loved it.

[@islagray3087]

Who doesn’t love theatre fails (well if the actors are ok!!!)

[@charmedgirl90]

My favourite moment watching wizard of oz in Australia many years ago was when Toto did a poo and they had to wait for a scene change to clear it. The witch pointed at it and said “it’s a sign”

[@MystraRavenwind]

Does Ryan have any of his musical theatre fails? That would be interesting to hear what happened from the person it happened to.

[@emilykate0835]

he showed one in the first version of this video!

[@thomasbradley4505]

I don’t know if this would be considered a fail, but when Wicked was playing San Francisco pre-broadway, Kristin Chenoweth had injured her neck and was wearing a neck brace. During the scene after Nessarose gets crushed and the witches are fighting, Elphaba raises her hand to slap Glinda, Kristin pointed to her neck as if to say “you can’t hit me, I’m injured”. The audience went crazy. Don’t know if it was ad-libbed or if it was written in to accommodate the injury, but it worked

[@richkarter1916]

4:06 fun story about something that happened when I went to see charlie and the chocolate factory: Augustus died and Charlie goes “poor Violet-“ and Willy, with this hella ominous voice was like “Violet? You mean Augustus? Poor Augustus?” and then did the “WHAT ABOUT MY CHOCOLATE!?” and it was one of the best little stage bloopers i’ve witnessed ever

[@Percy_PotterEdits21]

7:01 i want his pillow to always be warm. And for him to stub his toe and right when its almost healed he stubs it again. And for him to trip and fall infront of someone important.

[@thatawkwardnerd8998]

In my dance studio's production of The Nutcracker, there's always a part where the grandmother "trips" and falls back into someone's arms. One year, the grandma stepped on her skirt as she "fell" and the button came undone and the skirt fell. (She had another skirt underneath so it was fine.) The grandma was just a dancer's mom who volunteered to play the grandma, but she took it in stride SO WELL! She did a big dramatic gasp and then she made a face like "Oh, well!" It was incredible!

[@larathekoala8455]

Love this kind of reaction content, would you possibly consider reacting to some starkid stuff they have a bunch of great musicals! Love you guys :)

[@fairylen7385]

Oh wow I came to the right place I'm currently right in the middle of a starkid obsession haha

[@antonygoon9694]

Fun fact: Idina's castmate who offers her the phone is Tony winner LaChanze!

[@inkandcaffeine]

ok but the pups in the background made me so happy

[@zzzut]

I played keyboards in Into the Woods, 30 years ago. Most people have no idea of the rhythmical complexity of Sondheim’s music. It takes real pros to sing those musicals flawlessly

[@SongbirdAnalise]

Loving this new update schedule- I completely forgot to expect a video today because I thought “There’s already been one this week, obviously the next one isn’t until Friday.” 🤣

[@icekraze07]

One of my favorite shows our high school put on was The Scarlet Pimpernel. I happen to be there the night that everything went wrong (but also so right). It was the last showing and there was tons of great improvising due to issues. My absolute favorite was when one of the staffs they dance with had the top fly off and roll across stage… one of the guys walked over in an over the top way and did the bend and snap. The place was roaring with laughter. Still one of my favorite memories.

[@libbyfemenella1308]

I gotta say, my biggest theater “fail” was just the fact that I didn’t put together that my dog allergy wouldn’t really mesh well with the fact that we had an actual dog in our show, in almost every scene I was in and at every rehearsal and show for a month straight. I was so sick and had no idea why 😭😭

[@taylorcrook7202]

my favorite musical fail if you would call it will always be when I was in high school we performed Matilda. there is a song called quiet, in which at the end the fire alarms started to go off at first all of us cast and crew thought it was just a lighting malfunction because we had flashing red lights later on in the show. turns out the janitor was vacuuming up ceramic dust from the art room and it got caught in the smoke alarm. the fire trucks were called and we spent a good 20 minutes hanging out outside. so many people left thinking we wouldn't keep the show going. so if you were there that night and stayed, thank you because you made the show so much better for us who had to go on stage afterwards knowing some people didn't have the energy to stay. the rest of the show was fantastic!

[@roseimchristy9174]

5:40 Theater dressing room???? OHHHHHH- you mean the bathrooms in the school building, I gotchu. XD

[@no-one-really825]

"Is homeboy in the front row during a f***ing crossword puzzle?"

[@thesingingthing]

15:02 - Really put the 'drop' in Beauty School Dropout!

[@SprinkleStar_73]

Once when I was doing a small production at my local theatre camp, we were all supposed to run backstage, and I ran onstage and sat there for a good minute till I saw a castmate waving me back. Was so embarrassed 😭

[@DavidLopez-nr7wp]

Just came across this channel and now I’m addicted!! I love the channel and you both seem so chill.

[@greatstitchmaster2723]

I remember in my high school production of The Little Mermaid we mage a huge mistake on opening night, but the audience loved it so much we built it into the show

[@Rmlohner]

My "I was there that night" story is that in Les Miserables, the smoke alarms were set off during the barricade attack. Then during the curtain call, Mr. Thendadier came out holding a fire extinguisher.

[@dariuslovel1300]

Seeing that you guys like theatre, maybe you can react to artists who have done theatre-like performances on award shows. Specifically, Lady Gaga on the VMAs, Nicki Minaj on the 2012 Grammys and some of Beyoncé’s performances… would really want to hear your expert breakdown of these performances.

[@0c3anofstars]

theatre (kinda) fail: in 7th grade, our class did a robin hood play. i was playing a minor character and was backstage, waiting to hear the line cue to go onstage with a few other classmates, one who was playing king richard. i believe one or two classmates that were supposed to deliver lines before king richard showed up forgot it, and for a moment there was just awkward silence. then, one of the classmates onstage improvs, “i wish king richard were here right now!” and our little entourage with king richard went on stage. it was towards the end, though, so it turned out okay. the whole class laughed about it afterwards, and apparently the parents watching didn’t really notice. side note: there was a scene where i was “jousting” with a classmate on stage with pool noodles and i almost tripped on my dress. good times.

[@Demurelittledemon]

In a rehearsal for The Aristocrats, Abigail Gabble was at a dentist's appointment so Amelia Gabble decided to play both roles at the same time like she had split personality it was hilarious

[@sequoiaheinbyerly6665]

one of my best high school theatre fails was when we were doing cheaper by the dozen and the couch leg just fully broke off and one of my friends had to crawl on stage behind the couch to prop the couch back up cause it is such a pivotal set piece lol

[@sierra1608]

My favorite theatre memory was during the wizard of oz(I was the lion) right when the wizard and Dorothy are about to leave Dorothy’s supposed to “not know” where toto is and that leads to a major plot point. The kid who played the wizard put toto onstage because the tech crew said he should. This meant a bunch of 13 year olds had to figure out how to “loose” toto when he was clearly on stage. I ended up throwing toto and a random girl at the curtain kicked him and it still cracks me up when I think about it.

[@garlands_of_violets]

Literally last week the media wall in our production of she kills monsters, went out during the show. The guy playing chuck improvised and created the pictures that were on the screen, and it was the funniest thing ever. The entire cast was trying their hardest not to laugh. 😂

[@abbylooonglegs]

during the closing night of my senior show i was sitting on a piano bench, in front of a fake piano, while wearing a hoop skirt (the platform was barely wider than the piano bench). about 30 seconds into the song i had to get up and start dancing. since i couldn’t sit properly the hoop skirt was bent weird. when i stood up and walked forward the skirt got stuck in the bench and the bench fell on my ankle. i looked at my scene partner and we finished the scene. she later told me that if i had laughed or even giggled she wouldn’t have been able to finish the scene without laughing through it (we’ve been friends since preschool so it was a “i’m going to laugh then ask if you’re ok” situation). not only did i finish the scene while in some pain and not laughing. i also had to run to the other side of the stage, down a flight of stairs back stage and make my quick change, then get back onstage. definitely hurt. definitely bruised. and no one recorded it. show was Little Women btw

[@MaeHoop]

I played Pinocchio in shrek as a child and my nose don’t grow but I was unaware of how long it was and I was dancing with shrek and poked him in the eye and he couldn’t see for 2 days

[@miss_m8525]

The only time ive ever been in any kind of theatre production we had a bit of a fail but then I pulled a joke out and everything was fine and I still think about that all the time

[@GotItFromMyMama902]

3:30 OMG THE DOGGGGGGGG 5:50 in love with heathers but omg IM DYING THIS WHOLE CLIP LMAO 6:05

[@eimichi3344]

6:40 Ryan your JD is showing

[@grantgilbert2822]

Great haircut, Ryan. Your Pinocchio therapy improv really made me think of and old times actors like Carey Grant or Humphrey Bogart. Great stuff! Your hair looks great too, Sam! Love the CB shirt! What show was the last clip from?

[@thattheatrenerd1418]

I mean the Pinocchio one, the fall of the nose, comedically seems intentional, I know it is not but it is too perfect. The timing of the fall to the slide whistle is *chef kiss*

[@ajelliott04]

I have a couple of theatre mess up stories myself. So my first production on like a real stage outside of school was A Midsummer Night's Dream. I played Philostrate, who, if you know the show, only comes in at the end of the show. So at the time my director had added 7 different dance numbers to the show to keep it entertaining. However, we spent so long in rehearsals working on the dance numbers and cleaning them that never made it all the way to the end of the show, where my character was had this long monologue. I got to run my part 3 times and that was during tech week. So , here's where I made a mistake. Like I said, this was my first show outside of school so I was already anxious AF. So we get through the first act without a problem and now we're nearing the end of the show where i'm supposed to deliver my line. We get going in the scene and my mind goes completely blank. SO trying to save it, I improvised the line "You see my lord. It's so bad, I can't even explain it." I think my brain just stopped working after that because I don't even remember saying any of my lines after that. 😂😂😂 The second time I messed up was in a production of the Wizard of Oz. I was in tap shoes because during the song Merry Ole Land of Oz, we had a little tap section I was apart of. SO in some of the choreography. before we got to that section there was a part where we had to do a three step turn while moving around this turn table that we were using. I get downstage center, go to do the turn and slip and fall right in front of the mayor of Plano. I live in Plano and the mayor actually lives in my neighborhood so I knew him. I had sold him Girl Scout cookies many times. Luckily I didn't hurt myself because this was also the show where I found out I had to have ankle surgery to repair damage from a pervious injury, but it was really, really embarrassing. And it was closing night so I didn't have a chance to redeem myself. It was the same director for both of these as well.😂😂😂

[@fairyofhopeva]

I don't have a clip of it, but during my senior year of high school I was in my school's production of Saturday Night Fever. And on the last day, I was going down the stairs and onto the stage when I tripped on the stairs, fell down, lost one of my shoes, and scraped my knee a little bit. most embarrassing theatre moment for me

[@starlalikesbroadway3268]

That’s my compilation y’all reacted too! This is so crazy😭😭💗

[@thatbuzzgirl]

One time I was in a play where my character had her hand wrapped due to an injury and she was a servant. I went to go serve something and my "wrap" got caught on my workstation. So, in pure improvisation, I just screamed in pain (not real), rewrapped my hand, met with the people who had called me over and just calmly, in character, said, "Sorry about that. What did you need?" Which was great, because my character was already basically comedic relief. Then, when the scene was over, I went backstage and my castmates came swarming asking if I was okay. They thought the scream was real, so that boosted my confidence in my acting!

[@SageyPoo-tb4ib]

For my freshman year my highschool did into the woods and it was absolutely amazing, best show I’ve ever done

[@gemmaryan5533]

In August, my theater company did Aladdin Jr and the boy who played Jafars moustache fell off and he said “shedding season came early”

[@Sprout.pawz.101]

I love Ryan Sm

[@Rachel-us9um]

In a production of School of Rock that my friends did there was no chalk for the scene where he writes his name on the board and so the guy playing Dewey licked his fingers and tried to use his saliva and continued even through the lightsaber scene. There was also a scene where because they played all the instruments live he just could not get the right notes and the boy playing Zack turned to him and said “do you need a tuner Mr Schneebly?” It was the best 😂

[@evaubrey3.0]

Theatre fail story time, During a middle school production of a random play that I have long forgotten the name we all burst out in thunderous unstoppable laughter. My friend who was playing a family member said something about "oh, he's your fiancé😉" we all had trouble not laughing at this part but it just happened to be on stage. Wasn't too bad thankfully and we got our voices back, just took a little bit. Not to mention my line was next. Thanks for listennng

[@jordanchenette9331]

I love these videos! Please make this a series!!

[@CookieGoddess3695]

I know a great, " The Show Must go on" Moment my Drama teacher told us, she knew someone doing a play and he did this thing with his leg in a dance number and he accidently broke his leg. He finished the song and when he got offstage, he went to the hospital immediately.

[@bringingupbrooke3087]

There was this one time when I was Winnifred in “Once Upon a Mattress” and I legit just FELL OFF THE 20 MATTRESS BED! I played it off my saying “Wow! I really am tired!”

[@DeafeningLight]

I was a kid when two things happened to me - thankfully the first was in rehearsal. One of the spotlights shattered and rained glass down on me and another girl, and we were wearing ballet shoes and in a pose, so over the god mic you just heard “DONT. MOVE.” And they got some of the dads with work boots on to move us off stage by hooking us under the arms and lifting us whilst still in position, as if we moved we could have cut ourselves. Had to stay perfectly still for about 20 mins whilst people picked me clean! 2nd was on stage, Jack and the giant beanstalk, his mum grabs the beans (about and inch and a half long, made of papier mache and painted so basically like rocks) throws them off stage, except one hit a prop, slid up it, and shot straight into face at high speed. It was a panto, so the poor teen playing the mum was so mortified he’d hurt me, since I was bleeding everywhere!

[@sai_rosi8493]

you talking about funding reminded me, so we had a really good workshop for the crew at my school but the canhging rooms for the cast were actual english classrooms above the theatre, so if the cast was up there being load during the show you could hear it fully from the theatre

[@YourLocalCheese6]

6:04 dead girl falling

[@ColonelS]

I was in my VERY FIRST stage production( it was Lost in Yonkers) and one actor was supposed to go briefly offstage to get me a glass, but didn’t place the prop, so me and another actor had to ad lib while we waited on stage. I hated every minute of it

[@ctbonnie]

Once I was a bird girl and got my toe tan over by the tree w Horton in it on opening night 😂

[@kaitlynlouviere4830]

My first play ever was last semester (I’m in college), and it was called Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom. Very interesting show. I was playing two characters, both moms, and one of them was named Joy. She gets beaten to death with a claw hammer by her son. Loved that scene. But… I had to stage fall with no experience. One time, my scene partner pushed me a little too hard (I had asked him to give me a slight shove to make the fall more realistic) and I ended up really hurting my arm. It hurt so bad to move it. And I still have two shows to do after that! We think it was just bad internal bruising or maybe even a small fracture, but it took some work to get through. Still really fun first show, though!

[@dysgraphic_writer838]

One time i dropped my mic pack in the toilet.... Never recover

[@Almaskarell]

I would love to see your guys' rection to Goes Wrong series. There is a lot, but you can start with the Play that Goes Wrong promo clip as a sample of how the plays nd the shows go, an it would be amazing to hear Sam's and Ryan's comments to them!

[@your_local_theatre_kid5747]

5:36 I KNOW RIGHT- our school doesn't even have changing rooms for the arts department. We get changed in the freezing cold hallway backstage or one of the drama classrooms with big ol' windows-

[@ducky5277]

11:48 OMG I WAS IN TWELFTH NIGHT ONE TIME AS MARIA AND I LEFT THE LETTER OFF STAGE BC MY SKIRT GOT CAUGHT ON A SET PIECE AND I HAD TO RUN BACK OFF TO GET IT 😭😭😭

[@hannahwatermelon]

I just found your channel yesterday and watched a ton of videos including the previous musical theatre fails video so this video comes at the perfect time!

[@cwaycore1633]

5:06 I get what you mean but that song takes place in a classroom so it kinda makes sense that they used an office chair.

[@isabelmarie2003]

My theater failed was in 6th grade when I was Dragon in shrek junior and in the scene where dragon eats farquad, they didn't space it out right and my wings had smacked every single dulock character in the face 😭

[@Flyingpan1121]

This past summer I was in my community theaters production of Big Fish. And closing night we get news that our lead was in the ER cause he was fishing and ended up with a fish hook in his leg. He got through the show on painkillers and no one could tell at all.

[@ellabluehs4746]

All I can say is I’m currently playing the witch in Into the Woods and it is STRESSFUL… the music is so hard if your using a track and not an orchestra 😂 also the good thing about that part of the song is the line the Bakers Wife says is scripted 😂😂

[@queerlyvictorian]

Okay, I couldn’t be totally positive, but I thought that line was in the script!

[@ellabluehs4746]

@@queerlyvictorian yeah it is, but I still think it’s cute that she new what to sing after it

[@mayarezoni4387]

I (stage manager) this was a highschool play, an actor had a sizure just on stage, not currently in the scene, then about a few min later walked on stage and had a worderfull preformance. also they were on scafoling at the time on the sizure witch made in more scare on our end. same show, lights died and we lost all light cues for the second half and had to improv cues from memory.

[@caitthemusician]

I had my class show Oz yesterday (not the Wizard of Oz, just a parody of it), and I was the cowardly Lion. There’s a joke where I’m so scared of flowers that I stop drop and roll to get them off, and every rehearsal, it went fine. Welp, on show night, stopping dropping and rolling made my Lion ears come off. I looked at them for a sec, did a shushing gesture to the audience, and put them back on. It’s a comedy and the audience died, so I guess it worked, but the action definitely wasn’t in character. I wish I had the genius of some of these people to stay in character with the adlibs lol

[@chickenchicken6629]

This one time the trunchbulls wig flew across the stage. And the actor screamed and ran for it. The children improved ASWELL by giggling and calling her bald. Also the chalk machine broke inn the special screen and everyone took turns making up lines when it was super slow every single time

[@alinelson8921]

i’ve definitely had these moments… i actually broke my foot during south pacific and had to sing and dance and run around on a broken foot😭 and one i saw a community performance of matilda and one of there background walls just completely fell and everyone including the cast got rlly quiet…

[@STARIIfromthestars]

Last year in theatre camp during a matinee a little kid threw a doll on the stage😭 and once we did descendants the musical and during one of our shows during the prologue Ben Beast and Bell kept laughing through their scene

[@maddishouts]

One time I was Miss Hannigan and my hair was so teased my sweater, hair, and mic all got caught on each other when I was getting ready for the curtain to open and they had to hold for two minutes and replay the intro music three times until I untangled it lmao

[@Nevernorm]

I remember forgetting a prop on stage The thing is that one prop was like a part of my charater, a part of my costume and we fixed it by my friend saying "Isn't that your horse" I will never forget that.

[@jonathanroth1723]

My high school did Grease and our leads went to sing the final verse of Alma Mater Parody and the lights just went out.

[@readyplayermaddy7513]

When I was going Grease in high school I played Assistant Principal Blanche and our Principle Lynch had a hair malfunction on stage during the prom sense. So I, brilliantly start slowly pulling the bobby clips out of her hair and handing them to her and she, in character tells me "make sure you get bobby clips that WORK next time" before continuing the sense as normal. The entire cast, crew and audience DIED. And we even improved later with me asking her well we were doing an anaucment sense where I just kept doing the chim we set up for me to play on the little toy xylophone we had if the now bobby clips worked better.

[@lilyhoward6414]

I love these videos!!!

[@Aled_bo11]

I lost my ear half way through the retelling of little red riding hood, it was half way down my hair (clip) and my dad has a picture of me, eyes wide singing the last song and ear sliding out of my hair. I will never live it down 😭

[@CameronTheWeirdo]

I need more of these!

[@RENTnerd87]

8:26 If you're doing The Full Monty, it's not so metaphorical. No joke, awhile back a local production had the lightboard freeze up at the very end of "Let It Go". They couldn't fade to black and have the backlights flash like they were supposed to, the guys threw their arms up with full stage lighting

[@BeglGuest]

I’ve been in 2 Sondheim show I was jack in into the woods and Tobias in Sweeney Todd they were the most fun shows I’ve ever been in

[@abbie7403]

HAVENT WATCHED THE VIDEO YET BUT I LOVE IT

[@Ratigan2]

Ryan's eyebrows are on fleek like omg this is the first time ive ever _noticed_ *eyebrows*

[@cookie_monster278]

In middle school we did a play that was making fun of the horror genre and in the final scene a pitcher of OJ is ment to be poured into a cup but this was a horror play and the OJ was ment to have something wrong with it. So we used bright orange slime but it wouldn't pour out so one of the actors reached their hand into the pitcher and took a handful of the slime and put it in the cup. Now I wasn't on stage when this happened but when I came on stage the table everyone was sitting at was drenched in slime. But that play was my first and I'll never forget it. Also if i remember correctly it was called " The hallmarks of horror" But I can't remember the writer.

[@Measuresderepo]

When my older brother was in Mary Poppins Jr they had to switch around ear mics, already a bad idea amrite? But he was taking it off and it fell down. It fell down his pants. The thing was, his mic was on. So the entire audience heard a whispered “It fell down my pants…”

[@liviesaski]

LOVE YOU GUYS AND BROADWAY SO MUCH!!!

[@Chibi_Mercury]

i remember when i was in, i think, 4th grade, we were doing a "play" about something in american history, and i had a tiny strip of paper that was my lines. when it came to do the play, i forgot my line, and the teacher had to slip the paper to me, so i ended up saying my line with my head down lol

[@valerieloc1686]

The Little Red one in Into the woods wasn’t improvised by the Bakers wife. She said what she said at that point in every production. I’m just impressed she knew, when to say it. (“Are you certain if the way” or something like that). But it was definetly a good safe for the girl.

[@brent9128]

I remember when I went to see clue the officers moustache fell off and there was just a second of silence before everyone started laughing it just added to the comedy of the show

[@chrisjesteenbergen9986]

At my school we get prepared for mistakes e.g. The soldiers in our show missed the cue so the main characters just had a conversation until they saw the soldiers standing at the glass door and then they said the line again but instead of My head hurts so bad it feels like there are soldiers in there She said My head hurts even more badly know it feels like they are marching and playing the trompets and the drums so it was not too obvious and no one thought something was wrong what also was a funny fail is when a prop fell and I was like this spy dressed as a maid so the king in the scene ordered me to pick it up while saying to the public how it is so hard to find good maids nowadays

[@weareallbatman.notflix]

i curently play damian in mean girls jr and my best friend (who plays janice) didnt think we were important in a scene during rehersal as it was just the plastics, since we are doing heathers next year we started singing our love is god WAY to loudly to practice and i looked over and the director was just staring at us confused as shit

[@sincerelymisssarah3004]

Regarding the heathers lady crossword- I am a high school theatre teacher and I always tell the kids if they don't establish and grab attention the audience will get bored and scroll tiktok. It makes them laugh but they remember it now

[@oliviatuck2686]

my high school did addams family and the leg of the table gave out while alice was on it - the whole addams family was sitting there holding up the table until she could get off