TikTok theatre fails to get you through the day✨

[@summerfan2976]

the girl who fell and had blood on her face then went on as if nothing ever happened is the true definition of the show must go on

[@meganmcleod6152]

when?

[@altaccountttttt]

When?

[@not-so-happypappypatton]

2:38

[@that_one_aquarius3]

@@not-so-happypappypattonty

[@abifoggy2469]

Yes, that would have hurt so danm much, and she just performed through the pain! Amazing!

[@ikhlas828]

Okay but the girl at 1:04 singing “Stupid With Love” managed to play off the fall so well

[@kidkrowtaylor.ৎ]

I played Cady before

[@sabineslim5211]

@@kidkrowtaylor.ৎ I WAS IN THE SHOW WITH YOU

[@sagegreeeeeeen]

She’s literally an icon

[@brooke____]

That girl playing Cady Heron singing stupid with love- props to her for falling off the chair and just immediately getting back up and singing.

[@N3RDYG0GGLES]

Ooh christ that person in Shrek who clearly got injured but just kept going while sitting on the stage. And the lass who DREW BLOOD faceplanting and kept going 😦

[@sunnydog3585]

From personal experience I think it was a patellar (knee cap) dislocate based on the way he fell and how he couldn't stand up immediately.

[@_just-a-twink]

Thats theater for ya 💅💅

[@grant4961]

the worst thing is when u start singing only to realize u didn’t start at the right time that’s litterally the most embarrasing thing to always happen to me

[@z1andonlyme557]

My best stage fail: I was in Seussical and my costume was the literal bird from Rio (even though I was ensemble and not a bird girl). So anyway we go to sing “Chasing the Whos” and my dumb self realized I was on the wrong side of the stage. So instead of staying on that side and flipping my choreography, I “flew” across the stage and went “CACA” like a bird in the middle of people singing..

[@sparks28]

omg i remember when i was like 6 i was mayzie in seussical (this was like, my first ever play) and i was yelled at during our final rehearsal because i managed to forget which wing to enter from and walked in from the completely wrong one

[@hampters_applesauce]

Mission failed, successfully?

[@ldarling7471]

Can I save this forever

[@alexiamejiae3916]

LMFAO

[@regenwharram8150]

NOOO 😭😂

[@sorrowish6810]

1:11 she is okay, I watched the original video and she replied in the comments that she broke a bone (or sprained her wrist or something) and she got it checked AFTER she finished her song, talk about a trooper!

[@reesember]

My theatre group did The Wizard of Oz before I joined. Some details might be wrong as I wasn’t there. During one scene the group was lost in a forest I believe, and Toto is the one who comes to lead them out. But our Toto missed her cue, and nobody could find her. So the characters just walked around on stage for a few minutes, talking about how they missed Toto and wished Toto were here. One said “I think I’ve seen this tree before”. These ad-lids became more passive aggressive until Toto finally was found and scrambled onto stage. She then went on to exclaim the most awkward bark, much to the relief of everyone else. Apparently it was all chaos backstage as everyone tried to find her.

[@immabethehero1486]

That actually sounds really funny, glad the dog was ok though

[@mrchoccimilk5204]

MARTHA JUMPING OFF THE BRIDGE GOT ME

[@sparks28]

my biggest theater fail was when i was 7, doing a summer theater class. We had a single show at the end of it, and this year it was The Little Mermaid and i was Scuttle. So, we just finished Kiss the Girl and i step off my little rock and walk offstage. I didn’t know my mic was still on, and as i was walking right by the speakers the thunder sound effect plays very loudly for when flotsam and jetsam shock the boat. I said to myself “ay, nagulat ako” (‘ay, i got surprised’ in Filipino) and *the audience heard it.* Fast forward a few years and i’m in my first real play, and one of the adults there asked if i was the one who said “ay nagulat ako” in the production. It was embarrassing af

[@ldarling7471]

I love your pfp

[@krmalgangster33]

awesome

[@reesember]

In my theatre’s production of Steel Magnolias, we had huge letter as part of the set to spell out “TRUVY’S” on the wall. During the last show, in the middle of a scene, the U fell and loudly shattered out of nowhere. Without missing a beat, our Truvy marched over, exasperated, and said “I swear- my husband, Drum, never hangs these things up right!”. There was a round of applause, it was fantastic.

[@tehr6809]

5:35 - its the dude playing chess on his phone in the front of the crowd for me ;) great video, thank you!

[@inharmony1]

Recently I played Jo March in my high school’s production of Little Women. On the second performance day, our hair stylist decided to experiment by putting a second bun hair piece on me because it was hard for her to get my hair into just one. During Weekly Volcano Press, I felt like the bottom piece was slipping but I chalked it up to my imagination. Lo and behold, shortly after the number while I was still on stage doing dialogue, it fell off and landed next to me. It didn’t help that the audience that day was really quiet but all of a sudden murmurs were rippling through them. As embarrassed as I probably should have been, the hardest part was actually not laughing. It wouldn’t have been a good look considering my character just found out her sister is dying 😂

[@josephinemoser7213]

I played Lily in Anastasia this past year. During Land if Yesterday after everyone is on the ground, I was doing heel clicks by myself facing the back and when I landed my last one I totally rolled my ankle. I didn't fall, and I used the opportunity to turn to the audience. The choreographer backstage noticed and winced, but the directors and the audience didn't so I'd say task failed successfully

[@starlalikesbroadway3268]

Oh wow! Hope your ok now! Also Lily is a dream role of mine❤️❤️

[@idkwhatmyprofilenameshouldbe]

I JUST GOT LILY!!! IM SO EXCITED

[@josephinemoser7213]

@idkwhatmyprofilenameshouldbe OMG OMG!!! I'm so proud of you, that's amazing! She is truly a joy to play, and definitely a crowd favorite to watch, have so much fun with it! I'm rooting for you!

[@idkwhatmyprofilenameshouldbe]

@@josephinemoser7213 stop you are so kind thank you so much!!!!!

[@k.hizzle5376]

Good stage fail: It was my first show and me and this guy had a scene where we alternated lines in a strange way and on opening night I just completely forgot my lines but remembered his. So without any further communication on stage he managed to cover for me. Yay good improv skills.

[@DrMichaelJAdams]

5:02 not going to lie, the fail actually enhanced the number, not to mention it was on beat

[@slushiesforlife]

I was in my first show in May (we were doing Arabian Nights). We only performed it twice. In the first show, someone forgot a few lines and we just kept going. But another person pointed out that we forgot them ON STAGE. Later, we were supposed to exit when the music was playing. But no music played, so we just stood there in silence awkwardly

[@starlalikesbroadway3268]

NOO THATS THE WORST😭

[@ldarling7471]

Wait left WHO on stage

[@idkwhatmyprofilenameshouldbe]

THE WAY MY JAW DROPPED AT THE PART WITH THE BELL

[@nonbinary_gnome.cosplays]

My best stage fail: So my theater group recently did Newsies and it was amazing. Luckily this story took place during rehearsal so no one saw thank god. So we’re doing the scene where Jack says that the newsies won or something and then some celebration music plays. So my little thing I did during the celebration music was do some heel clicks downstage then turn around and hop off of the stage left platform/tower thing. But when I did this, I jumped a little too high and hit my head on a horizontal support beam we had which then led to me falling on my butt on stage and because I was in jazz shoes and the stage is always slippery I fell hard and fast. A few cast members noticed and just stared for a second but I just stood up and continued cheering on the verge of tears. Also during this show I did the same thing that one girl did and started singing at the wrong time. It was during Brooklyn’s Here and I forgot a pause that isn’t in the original but is in the licensed version and the guy who played one of the Brooklyn Newsies wouldn’t let me live it down and would always look at me during the pause so I wouldn’t forget

[@Cottoco_]

man, i make theater and my FEAR OF FAILING AHAHAHAHWGEHGDG i'm watching this just to see how i'll react, but it's so scary to fail in front of a full as public, you don't even know...

[@lindsaylavender9110]

Ngl for a sec I though the fail was the person playing candy crush

[@starlalikesbroadway3268]

Haha I would also consider that a fail😭

[@dusty30068]

5:33 she really is a dead girl walking lol. The kid playing on his phone is so funny.

[@alexpyle6668]

My favorite stage fail: I was doing descendants playing Doug, and we were at a scene where the conversation was supposed to go: Evie(talking about a test):can you believe it Doug I passed! Doug: I’m not surprised I know it’s not the coolest thing to be, but you are the smartest person I know Evie: and you like that about me? Doug: of course! I love it! Evie: do you want to go to coronation with me? What I accidentally said: I’m not surprised I know it’s not the coolest thing to be, but you are the smartest person I love. I mean know! I said know right! *insert awkward laugh*

[@doro2597]

proud to say that so far mine have only been minor fails: in my first show, fiddler on the roof, the timing was really weird in the transitions of the last few scenes, and so during the last part of the show, the fiddler comes out and plays their fiddle as a closure to the show. but this show it just took a liiitttllee too long, and ten year old me thought it was time for bows lmao. so i came running onstage, saw the fiddler come on, and sprinted back off. pretty embarrassing, but nothing tragic!

[@sarahprescott1223]

In an Addams Family production I was in the table collapsed when Alice was getting off and she just slid down it like a slide and we all were on the verge of breaking out laughing

[@sarahprescott1223]

It was the second to last show so they were recording it to, they recorded it the next fay

[@kristenrock7783]

Instead of Don't lose your head, it is now " Don't lose your short's!" lol 🤣🤣

[@goodyougetastar]

5:59 looked incredibly serious actually - makes me flash back to a past injury of mine

[@evakniceley9272]

Yeah that’s one that will tear something i do theater and dance and those falls really hurt!!!!

[@alessandrastancato8729]

my stage fail: during when we had to wear masks i was in a play (like we didn’t sing bc it’s too vocally demanding with masks) . my mic managed to be in my mask and the audio was crunchy and you could hear me breath!! i held my breath when i wasn’t speaking and my lines were delivered too fast to hear 😭😭

[@neveyjcammans808]

in my last show of Into The Woods the Baker forgot to grab Milky White (the cow) from backstage for the cow dying scene so he went "Oh no! I left Milky White back there, I'll be back!" so Little Red and I (i was Jack) had to improvise chasing each other across stage, where she fell off one of the platforms, rolled around as we continued chasing one another until the Baker got back and she ran off stage. (she was fine btw!)

[@kiri_tm]

in our middle school production of fiddler on the roof during one of the scenes with the most lines for perchik he missed the cue and the entire scene so all of the sisters (including myself) were sitting onstage fake peeling potatoes hoping it could be a brief pause that we could play off (we were all very young and didn’t know what to do) so the mom had to come onstage and make something up to get us out of the scene but it essentially meant that in the next scene hodel and perchik saw each other, he asked her to marry him after having one prior interaction in the show (bc a big piece of dialogue was skipped since that scene was abandoned) but mainly i still think about how long we must have been miming peeling potatoes for 😭

[@that_one_aquarius3]

My biggest theater fail was a year ago. I played Wendy Darling in in my school’s production of Peter Pan, and it was my first major, major role. So I had the jitters when we did the same thing we always do: a dress rehearsal for the little kids, the day before opening. During I’m Flying, I had my biggest stage mishap EVER. You see, we were using hoverboards and dry ice to create the illusion of flying, and stage crew put my hoverboard BACKWARDS. If you have ever ridden a hoverboard, you know that makes it practically impossible to ride. So we started to “fly”, and I thought I was doing pretty well. I now knew my hoverboard was in the wrong direction, but I thought I was handling it like a champ. Until I started to spin. It was one of those REALLY dizzying spins. I spun for about twenty seconds straight, hearing the ear-ringing laughs and taunts from the kids. Thankfully, the boy who played John grabbed my arm, and Micheal grabbed my waist, but they ended up spinning, too. Needless to say, I fell off. I was so dizzy, but I still ran around that stage. The boys playing John and Micheal thought they couldn’t go around my board, even though it was QUITE possible. So, we got rid of the hoverboards and just walked through the dry ice. One of the best shows I’ve been in though! 😅

[@riverstyxandsolidago]

Wanna share my stories while I'm here! I was doing a song where we were quickly walking across the stage and adoring the town. I went to do a spin to jazz up the performance and not look super bland but I slipped and fell with an audible thud. I had to quickly get up and off but that was such an embarrassment. Also in this show, The soles of my shoes kept coming off so our costumes crew kept having to hot glue them back on. I got off stage of a song before I had to go back on for another one and I realized it was falling off again. We didnt have time to glue it back so we got some bright yellow spike tape (it's what we had at the time) and taped it up so I was doing our big before intermission piece with a giant, visible piece of tape on the back of my shoe. (Adding injury to insult, I had to do this big front of stage kickline in this song too!) My lesson to anyone is dont wear cowboy boots in a tap show! The show is Crazy for You by Ken Ludwig, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin for anyone who is wondering!

[@nacho_girl]

So far, the most embarrassing was during a warm up. I gasped loudly when we were told to breathe in (we were about to hum for 36 beats)

[@jodirookhuizen802]

My biggest mistake was completely missing a scene. thankfully my cast mates fixed the spacing cause they’re amazing.

[@DarynThePuffCosplay]

Yo the BATB rehearsal one was my show! That’s my friend that got dropped😅 (I’m also in the vid at the end)

[@darrennothdurft5481]

Timestamp? Lol

[@DarynThePuffCosplay]

@@darrennothdurft5481 4:01

[@skone3791]

9:05 mans was trying to recreate coco 💀

[@starlalikesbroadway3268]

STOP💀😭

[@GotItFromMyMama902]

The absolute fact i know all these musicals and LOVE them!

[@hornguy04]

6:02 that looked painful. Wow I could feel that pop.

[@orionalexandersummers]

Best theatre fail of mine was when I was in a local production of Aladdin and my twin sister and I (I'm a dude) were playing Jafar's henchmen. So on the performance night, we missed our cue on stage because it took us ages to costume change. We came running onto the stage the third time Jafar had called us (At this point in the plot, he had just captured the sultan) and told us to take the Sultan away. But, the dude who was playing the sultan got so bored of us waiting he disappeared and it was like some sixth sense but my sister and I immediately started playing dumb very comedically and said "What sultan?" and fair play to the woman playing Jafar, she went, "Well he's gone because you took so long fools! Retrieve him nitwits". Very fond memories.

[@blueblossom3384]

5:43 gotta love the guy on his phone in the front row…

[@crystalmike17]

1:04 WHY WOULD THEY CHOREOGRAPH THE JUMP ONTO THE CHAIR 😭

[@melonyrobinson9944]

My school did a Gentlemans Guide to Love and Murder, and in Barrel of a Gun, our Adalbert started singing the second verse lyrics to the first verse, but since its a lesser known musical we got away with it and he just sang the second time even crazier Edit: Also our Lady Eugenia spilled water on the stage when raising a toast. In the dinner scene, Monty has to panickedly knock over a trifle cup, but the show was doublecast, and one of our Montys did it a little too aggressively and broke the cup on multiple nights. Props department was not happy lol

[@andrewpearle5562]

I love how the girl playing Veronica from Heathers singing dead girl walking. The lady in the front row is playing candy crush 😭😭

[@rebeccalambert3240]

Once during our first performance with an audience, a matinee for middle schoolers that was just the first act of the show, almost the entire time I was on stage (the last 2 songs with a scene in between) my mic was falling off my face. I was constantly acting like I was adjusting my hair instead of frantically trying to get the tape to stick lol. Not a single person noticed, except maybe my co star (who was 2 feet away from me lol). Also, that same co star, on the second night of the show, was supposed to swing ons rage using arial silks. He smacked into the wood set, ended up bleeding, and continued the song XD. I saw when I came on stage later since he had a bandage on and as soon as we got off stage for intermission (I didn't go off at all between coming on and intermission) went "WHAT DID YOU DO???" lol. Also once another co star convinced me to let him throw in a line about shampoo since there was a costume change that our scene was definitely not long enough to cover lol. Chaotic show, but boy was it a fun first high school show xD

[@aidangarrett8170]

I remember in 8th grade my theatre did 42nd street as our spring production and during the last show the pretty lady sign ended up falling during the bows.....

[@sweetness5830]

I'm sad because I live in Brazil and there's no such thing as theater in our schools, so I have to content myself with videos, and dream

[@aimeehenderson142]

STOP BC THE CAT SCARED ME THE MEOW SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS IN IRL

[@-exly_n-]

Who went to TMP, I was Jetsam and when i did my cartwheel,my back started really hurting,so i held in my tears and walked off stage,then i started crying in Calvin's(Sebastian) arms backstage.

[@BCPlayz028]

Ok so the place I do theater has two separate casts: 1 for 7-12 year olds(regardless of their age they are still incredible), and another for 13-18 year olds. I'm in the older company, and we did a preview of our show(Anastasia), at the younger kids show(Peter Pan Jr). About halfway through the song we were performing, the music completely cut out. We had to do the entire rest of the song acapella. I play the Russian Military and our choreo is to basically just stand there and look serious. So I did that, but inside, my brain was going NUTS. I had fears that the music would come back on randomly and we'd have to rewind, but they said they couldn't turn the music back on because it would mess it up. After we finished, we usually just go offstage and watch the younger kids, but our directors came to the stage and were talking about how we played it off so well. And we really did, we were in tune, we didn't miss a beat, we did the best we could for literally no music. My friend and I were looking at each other in relief that the song had ended. And the song we did(A Rumor In St. Petersburg) is a pretty long song. But it felt SO MUCH LONGER with the added stress of doing it with no music. But we did it. And that was really my first time encountering a mishap onstage. Sorry for the long paragraph but I really wanted to talk about it lol.

[@offsewingdragons9142]

My best stage fail: Was mae peterson in a production of bye bye birdie, during my grand speech (when peter dumps her, a mother doesn’t matter, but we had it just as a speech lmao) on one of my lines “just throw me out with the garbage!“ i had to walk over and take the lid off a trash can. However, i misjudged my energy and ripped the entire lid off with such force the garbage can FELL OVER, FELL OFF STAGE, AND ROLLED INTO THE A U D I E N C E. Thankfully, the audience thought it was absolutely hilarious and laughed. It was brilliant.

[@Audrey0853]

when i was charlie in shortened ver. of charlie and the chocolate factory, my teacher decided to use wired mics and uhm... i tried to walk on stage but i got caught. i ended up saying "damnit" into the mic, which was brought up during directors notes ;-;

[@user-fm4ip7lo8u]

Oh damn...

[@mae4780]

My best stage fail: I was around 9 and I was doing the greatest showman for the school play (yes I know it sounds horrible already) and I and 3 other girls were cast as that singing lady. Anyways, my school never told me that I had to get of stage at one point so I was on stage with 2 of the girls that were the same role as me and they were doing a dance choreography so I didn’t wanna ruin the show and run off stage so I (without knowing anything about the choreography) tried to dance along and failed but I don’t think anyone noticed in the audience but everyone else knew and that was so embarrassing! Moral of the story: don’t be dumb kid like me 👍

[@fantageboy4539]

I remember when I was doing my first really important show and on one of the nights the older kids were messing around and it was near my entrance it eventually distracted me right when I needed to enter then I heard “ HMMMm “ and I zoomed and to top it all up my family was watching

[@hannahevans358]

I realised recently that I actually know the girl from the first video. Though she is all grown up now, she still works in theatre.

[@talneu96]

yah but the dead girl walking girl really was a dead girl walking

[@kidkrowtaylor.ৎ]

My sister was in Aladdin, Matilda and 13, I was in Legally Blonde, Mean Girls and Hairspray

[@YourFavBen]

OMG I FEEL SO BAD FOR THE GIRL WHO PLAYED MARTHA AT 3:37! I was laughing so hard though!

[@Gulezworld]

My best stage fail: So the play was Emma a pop musical and I had the role of Ashley so I had to sing on a stage for one scene and now that I’m sharing it I’m realizing it’s not really my fault but the sound people but anyways , I was getting my hair done and costume change when all of the sudden I hear my cue and I needed a mic on stage so I ran our without a pic belting my voice as loud as I can because the sound people screwed up. Anyways yeah that’s mine lol

[@Musical-lover-24601]

I played Morris Delancey in a Middle School production of Newsies, and in the fight scene where Crutchie trips me and starts whacking me with the crutch, he accidentally hit me in the face. While we had an audience. Instant Blood, instant tears… good times 😂

[@bonayoon8801]

oh gosh the third vid gets me laughing already yet feeling so bad so sorry i will come back to tomorrow again for other, i can't do this anymore💀😭

[@Meeee12346]

I feel down the stairs my opening night lol bc I had to run up and down the stairs in heels

[@_-Species-_]

We had a show and in a group of 14, 5 people were actually in theatre, we had rôle for the change of decor and unfortunately people forgot it so at some point there the stairs of wood that blocked the entrance to the stage! So I am there in the high heels, long skirt, stressing my mind out and a boys just come and say “ oh look, (insert my name) to the rescue! “ it was clearly of pure intention, but at the place of saying that, come help me. Finally we had to contour completely and where 2x3 minute late for the scene. (ps: it wasn’t my role to do it but it was my scene and I couldn’t go on stages)

[@shayne_has_landed2511]

1:59 I just had a flashback to the “Evil Choir Teacher” of our school district absolutely TRAUMATIZING the cast of Peter Pan. Our shows were fantastic, I don’t know what her problem was, but notes were scary for everyone, even if you weren’t in trouble…

[@therealTDjo]

My theater fail was when I was the gingerbread man in shrek the musical and the puppet fell off the pan WHILE I WAS SPEAKING, so I just picked him up and kept talking and it was so scary

[@lizzierose12358]

So one of my stage fails: I had to be thrown on a couch as a “dead” person, and during a competition i was thrown on the couch, nothing new, but the couch broke. Also the lead man threw me on and my legs were on the arm rest and the lead had to sit on my legs for the play… lets just say i had very bad knees for a little while. Still fun though the crew was amazing and asked if i was alright.

[@TopHatGacha]

peter pan shouldve said "sorry, rough landing"🤣

[@MrNirvanaMan]

Ernesto De La Cruz : 9:01

[@emilywardle430]

I had a very small part in a show and only had one line. Before the show i used to drink capri suns. Anyway I sat on the capri sun packet and it got stuck to the bottom of my skirt. I went on stage with this capri sun on my skirt for the first two numbers. I only found out when the lead girl (whom i shared a dressing room with) said to me about it

[@rebeccalambert3240]

"Based question, sir" Me: *chokes in That's A Show I Did*

[@AquaSniperVA]

Okay so this really didn't injure anyone, but I was in a murder mystery play that took place in an office and there was this tray that had a bunch of glass cups stacked on it that had to go in and out of the scene. To get the tray out, it had to take this sharp turn backstage. Well, every single night, the tray got closer and closer to tipping over at that turn. And then one night it finally did. As soon as the door closed, all of the cups fell down and you just heard a big crash. Whenever we watched the recording later, we always quieted down to hear that part lmao

[@audralovestheatre]

3:19 IM AN AQUA😂😂

[@ranchonbagel]

0:35 I SNORTED

[@CJgreencheetah]

This makes me feel better about falling on my face over a fake rock after the bows in Into the Woods 😂

[@rebeccalambert3240]

If I could offer one: Playing Jane during Tarzan. Practicing a scene where I take things off of a table and go to put them in a tent. It's tech week. So, I'm about to pick up a book, and I realize it feels oddly heavier and harder to lift. But, I don't have much time, so I just pick it up, turn, and walk back to the tent. And then I hear a CRASH. Yeeeah, the reason the book felt heavier was because it's back cover had slipped under the tea tray. . . The crash was the porcelain teapot hitting the stage and shattering. Honestly at that point I was so tired I had no tears left to cry lol. I just sat there smiling tiredly on a box while my co star hugged me and the stage managers swept up the tea pot lol XD. Bonus, during the actual performance of that show, the second night I accidentally said the wrong line at the end of a scene. Whatever, I thought, it doesn't matter, they're similar and people will forget. It was supposed to go at the beginning of the next scene, 30 seconds later xd. So I switched things around a bit to fix it, confused myself, and did the whole scene inside out. Somehow I still made it to my sound cue, and I have no clue what my co star was thinking XD

[@m.bee20]

OK I have a kind of funny theater fail. I was in 101 dalmatians and we had these double doors and when we were bowing, it was on the stage since I was just ensemble was bowing first. So I was standing my spot in the people front of me were backing up. And the girl in front of me backs up way too far and I get pushed backwards into the door and it swung open so I fell into the door on my back. It was so embarrassing everyone turned around and I was sitting in between the two open doors.

[@masontheatrics2212]

Le bonk

[@lourdes5110]

i’m not sure you understand the depth of the reference you just made

[@masontheatrics2212]

@@lourdes5110 sure

[@zariah3885]

That Veronica went from dead girl walking to dead girl falling

[@izzy_fiZZyy]

so we're currently doing shrek jr and during rehearsals yesterday we did a read through of the show. we got to the part where shrek wakes up fiona in her tower and me and my friend were silently acting it out while it was actually going on. well my friend actually shook me like how shrek is supposed to shake fiona and I screamed really loud out of nowhere and it was super embarrassing

[@RebellaDeVil]

Mine would be when I was in bye bye birdie my freshman year of high school. We had to run up a fake staircase after Conrad at the end of the scene. Well I was the last one to exit and lost my shoe while running. I had to run back and grab my shoe, then up the stairs and jump off the stair platform into the wings. I was mortified because I was the ONLY person onstage so it was clear what happened.

[@tami.41]

I didn't get the Addams family one tho 🤔

[@Afearedraccoon]

4:30-6:30 rehearsals?!??? Bro that’s nothing! Rehearsals for my school prod were 4:30-8:00…

[@sagegreeeeeeen]

I think I might win this trend: last year in my schools production of frozen, I had a skirt (I was a townsperson). In “colder by the minute” I was in the front row for choreo. KEY PART RIGHT NOW: we had this top layer we all had to take off to represent “Anna getting unfrozen”. As I took it off, my SKIRT UNVELCROED and I flashed the whole audience. The worst part is that my pants had been turned red (iykyk) so ppl saw my BLOOD SOAKED SHORTS. I didn’t notice until someone in the snow chorus pointed it out 😭 still embarrassed Edit: I could go on about that fail for hours lol

[@oddnoodles576]

once i fell onstage but it’s ok cuz i pretended i was supposed to

[@peepoopeee11]

I was just in a show where someone got a bloody nose and it was painfully funny

[@NotaFro]

I got stuck on stage a couple of weeks ago...

[@hey_crazyb]

bro did you hear that crack at 8:21

[@Regu1usB1ack]

Once I was playing Leroy smith in bugsy malone and I accidentally punched a guy in the face for real during a fake fight on opening night and afterwards the director yelled at me for breaking character (the boy ran off crying)

[@QuinnBertino]

My friend broke her foot opening night first scene she was in 😅😅

[@rosewilson1417]

Shout out to all my fellow theatre kids who have almost died from a flat falling dangerously close to them reply with a theatre mask🎭 if that has happened to you

[@star_gazer315]

my biggest theatre was when i played sarah brown and two spereate nights i had to slap sky, one i missed him completely and acted bewildered as if i did hit him and the other i smacked him so hard by accident i genuinely panicked and he just kinda smirked and left and EVERYONE FREAKED OUT

[@swamp347]

I’ve got two! The first one, was during a middle school production of Into the Woods jr. and I played the wolf. So me and the witch were discussing about where we should put a tree because it was blocking either one of our entrances. Eventually, It got put somewhere that i wished it wasn’t, but it is fine, I can adapt. I go on for hello little girl, and just swing the tree around. What we didn’t know, is that it couldn’t stand up by itself, and it fell. Half our set pieces fell due to a domino reaction, sadly I don’t have it on video. The next one happened last night, during our final dress rehearsal for Wizard of Oz! What happened was that one of the cables we used to fly a set piece in broke, and we were almost squashed. Yeah it is a little concerning!

[@starlalikesbroadway3268]

Oh wow!! That’s so scary! Did they pause the show when the set pieces fell?

[@swamp347]

We were actually just about to start act 2, so intermission was going to end in like 20 seconds, so they just kept intermission going for an extra few minutes

[@aidangarrett8170]

I'm in high school and my theatre is doing into the woods jr in the spring. I'm also the wolf

[@bhickman6]

Why does the red thingy bounce up and down when the lady wearing yellow dress jumps on it? Is it a bounce house that got left on the stage?

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

Love reading these theater fails in the comments.

[@niamh8803]

2:04 glee reference

[@lottiehicks9127]

I’m a dead giirrlllll faaalllliiiinnngg

[@ksdays3170]

My stage fail is we were in into the woods and I was Cinderella and I changed out of my fancy dress at the wrong time an missed the beginning of ur fault

[@erinsinnamon]

Story about 8 years ago when I was 11 my school did a year six musical every year it tradition mine was dr dolittle jr I know horrid. I was Madeline mugg one of the leads and there was a scene where we were in storm on a boat and while we were acting my friends (Emma fairfax) fell and cracked her head open safe to say there was an interval that was not ment to happen

[@redbubbleman]

He is right. I didn’t see that.

[@crookedprojects]

listen ahh, idk why i write this here but assuming most of the viewers are theatre kids; . . . . . . . . . . . i'm a member of a theatre community in my college. have been there for a year now and hold a position too, but the thing is i've never liked acting. i joined thinking it would change bcs even though i don't like acting i like seeing people and actors doing it, i love analyzing characters, writing and all that but it never changed. though i kinda like being in the backstage more, but i've never really enjoyed it. it's pretty constant with the practices and all that, and the thing is if i've done acting (though, forcefully) constantly and never like it, doesn't that mean something? that i don't belong in theatre? i feel bad... these people around me probably devoted everything for theatre while i'm not, most of the time i did my tasks and responsibilities forcefully even though i always did them seriously. and i'm afraid theatre would only leave a bad experience for me bcs the amount of stress i've been getting (my theatre com is really busy, and ive always felt anxious doing ANYTHING related to acting). how can i love theatre if i didn't enjoy it..

[@madssss27]

the first one...