mrp123
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BloopersOkay, for those of you that have been in Les Miz, what are some bloopers or rehearsal stories from your productions? Or if anyone's heard of any professional mess-ups? These are all from rehearsal...
- Our Valjean had, uh, a lot of problems carrying Marius. To say the least. Valjean was 5'6" and Marius was around 6'4", and Valjean was very seriously visually impaired (he's legally blind). At one point, he had to carry Marius into the sewer, which was a hole cut into our stage extention covered by a grate. We had a light in there (a very large, hot light) that got turned on when the sewer needed attention called to it. Once, during our first rehearsal with the light, Valjean didn't see where it was, exactly, and he dropped Marius onto it. He got a pretty bad burn on his back from that.
- Once, Valjean was doing an improv where he was telling God why he should save Marius. Our Valjean goes, "So I broke parole. WHOOPS!" I think you had to be there (that's the case for most stories, isn't it? =/) but it was HILARIOUS.
- We were about to do "A Heart Full of Love..."
Director: Where'd Marius go?
Cosette: He had to puke. He was too nervous.
Poor guy.
- During the wedding scene:
Th�nardier: Master of the hou - SH IT!
- Also during the wedding scene, once Th�nardier's mike fell off and he picked it up and was like "And here's my microphone - with the upper crust!"
- During the barricade scenes:
Sentry: (totally calmly) Platoon of snipers, advancing toward the barricade.
Director: ARE WE GOING TO THE DELI?!?!
- During the wedding scene, before we got props, Th�nardier was looking for something for "Even found me this fine souvenir," and all he could find was a cell phone. Marius pretended to talk into it for his next line. Another one you had to be there for, but was hilarious.
- We were working out blocking for Javert's Suicide while we were painting the back wall, and had scaffolding up. Javert jumps off our bridge-thingy and into the scaffolding. I actually see his head hit one of the metal poles and bounce off. Everyone screams and rushes on stage - and Javert is TOTALLY FINE. It was amazing.
- Fantine realized her gown thing for the finale was see-through at our first dress rehearsal and had to run offstage halfway through the scene.
- Lighting Director: Put the spotlight on Valjert.
Lighting Crew: ???
Lighting Director: JUST DO IT!!!
- For my friend's Les Miz, the way they showed the dates (Toulon 1815, etc) was they had this screen that dropped down and had the date on it, then went back up. The thing was, they had the dates saved on some Powerpoint thing, and one night they pushed the wrong button, and the audience saw...the Windows welcome screen. o_O
- I heard about one night at a professional production where the bridge for Javert wouldn't come down, so Javert had to pretend he was stabbing himself.
Anyone have any other stories?
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Aimee
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Hehe, they are funny.
I don't have many, in the factroy scene after ATEOTD one of the girls didn't make it back onto the stage to sing 'It's because little fantine wont give him his way' and the girl who normally answered her ['Take a look at his trousers you'll see whre he stands'] just sang the whole line. I wouldn't say that was bad and no-one would have noticed as the line is all one thing anyway but she was mortified.
Also the guy playing Enjolras kept going American on the word 'not' [be slaves again] and singing 'nut'. He was told everytime he did it that he'd have to buy the whole cast a drink. He was pretty good after paying for the first round. 
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Moci
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Are your from the London production or from when you did the workshop Aimee?
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Fantine
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When I saw the show for the first time in London, during Gavroche's death, he threw his bag towards the students but it fell back. Kind of sad actually.
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dramaqueen220222
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| Fantine wrote: | | When I saw the show for the first time in London, during Gavroche's death, he threw his bag towards the students but it fell back. Kind of sad actually. |
Oh yeah, same thing happened to us. Gavroche threw the bag over, but it just kind of hit the rotating bridge and fell down. But I guess it just kind of made it even more sad, like he died for nothing. And everyone in the audience was like, gasping and "awww!!"
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Moci
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| Fantine wrote: | | When I saw the show for the first time in London, during Gavroche's death, he threw his bag towards the students but it fell back. Kind of sad actually. |
I remember being told about a Gavroche who threw the bag up and he missed and it came back and hit him.
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mrp123
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| Moci wrote: | | Fantine wrote: | | When I saw the show for the first time in London, during Gavroche's death, he threw his bag towards the students but it fell back. Kind of sad actually. |
I remember being told about a Gavroche who threw the bag up and he missed and it came back and hit him. |
That's pretty much what happened for us, but only one night. Figures it's the one we got on video... oh well, it wasn't like it ruined the show; as Fantine said, it makes it sadder.
My friend saw it on Broadway when she was like 12 and Enjolras, when he was dead, was in serious danger of falling off the barricade, so he had to like...move around to prevent that. Whoops.
Others I forgot:
- We were blocking the barricade scenes, only the set hadn't come in yet, so we were just using blocks as the barricade. Eponine decided that she wasn't really in any danger, so she was just gonna climb over the blocks. Well, you guessed it - she sings "I don't think I can stand any more" and the barricade just FALLS APART. It was like a block explosion. We decided to wait until the barricade came in before blocking those scenes after that, haha.
- The first time Marius carried Eponine right before "A Little Fall of Rain," he dropped her (Valjean was like "SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE???"). The night we taped, Marius tripped during that part and almost dropped her.
- Marius, verbatim, learning his part in the finale: "It's you who must...wait...uh...blah blah blah... SAINT!"
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WillowFae
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I can only comment on London bloopers (having never done the show).
Funniest one was Michael McCarthy singing and suddenly realising that because he had gotten two words the wrong way round, his next line wasn't going to rhyme!
"Tell me quickly what's the story
Who saw what and where and why
Let him give a full description
Let him answer to ... Javert"
And there was a split second pause before the last word as he realised.
And not really a blooper but the first time I saw it the barricade got stuck. The stage right side of it didn't go off after the barricade and stayed on during Dog Eats Dog. Of course the big problem with this is that the bridge can't come down for the suicide. Javert just walked off, the curtain came down and an announcement said that there was a fault. 10 mins later he came back on sans barricade and did the suicide number as it should be.
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lilmzdreeves
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Its not very funny. I went to watch Les Mis on the 7th May as it was Daniel's last day as Marius. It was in the Factory bit when the Factory woman had to tell the factory foreman what was going on. The factory woman was the understudy so she kind of got her words muddled up and Fantine found it funny but tried to keep a straight face. It all went wrong when Fantine and the factory foreman was standing at the front of the stage when Fantine was telling him about the situation and pointing at the letter and fantine couldn't hold it in any longer and started laughing when she was singing! its one of those things that you have to be there for!   lol! Luv Saz xXx
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LisaKitty
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My favorite Les Mis "blooper" is still one in a Student production that I vocal directed a couple years back. The sound guy forgot to turn off Gavroche's body mike when he went off stage. Normally, this wouldn't have been much of a problem, as the kids were pretty good about not talking back stage. However, this particular time, the actor had to use the restroom. So in the middle of the Marius/Cosette love scene, all of a sudden the audience was treated to a full stereo sound of water trickling. No one could figure out what it was, or where what seemed like a misplaced sound effect was coming from, until it was followed by the unmistakable sound of a toilet flushing -- again in full stereo.
The sound techs were much more careful after that.
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NotoriousFunnt
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I love bloopers.
This one was told by Craig Schulman at the Three Phantoms Concert I went to see in January.
To set the stage...ALFOR had just ended. All was silent, Marius cradling the dead Eponine, and Enjolras was about to say his line..."She is the first to fall, the first of us to fall--"
and apparently the microphone picked up a signal from a local airport because apparently they were near an airport during this part (it was a story from awhile back, I don't know what production)
"the first of us to fall--PSHHZZT this is air traffic controller, we have you clear for landing."
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The Very Angry Woman
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| Fantine wrote: | | When I saw the show for the first time in London, during Gavroche's death, he threw his bag towards the students but it fell back. Kind of sad actually. |
That's not a blooper. It's not a requirement that he makes the throw.
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Quique
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Gavroche.... | The Very Angry Woman wrote: | | Fantine wrote: | | When I saw the show for the first time in London, during Gavroche's death, he threw his bag towards the students but it fell back. Kind of sad actually. |
That's not a blooper. It's not a requirement that he makes the throw. |
I prefer he misses the throw. It just highlights the anger and devastation felt by the students when the officer calls out to them, "You at the barricade listen to this!" I get chills whenever the students respond in screams and shouts with a mixture of sorrow and anger shown upon their faces. Not even a child is spared and such an awful fate for such fruitless effort.
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dramatic_mizfit
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| NotoriousFunnt wrote: | I love bloopers.
This one was told by Craig Schulman at the Three Phantoms Concert I went to see in January.
To set the stage...ALFOR had just ended. All was silent, Marius cradling the dead Eponine, and Enjolras was about to say his line..."She is the first to fall, the first of us to fall--"
and apparently the microphone picked up a signal from a local airport because apparently they were near an airport during this part (it was a story from awhile back, I don't know what production)
"the first of us to fall--PSHHZZT this is air traffic controller, we have you clear for landing." |
Oh gosh, that is so funny!
We've had the left-the-mic-on-in-the-bathroom thing done to us too, once during Brigadoon and during Fiddler on the Roof, I believe. Oops.
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dramaqueen220222
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| dramatic_mizfit wrote: | | NotoriousFunnt wrote: | I love bloopers.
This one was told by Craig Schulman at the Three Phantoms Concert I went to see in January.
To set the stage...ALFOR had just ended. All was silent, Marius cradling the dead Eponine, and Enjolras was about to say his line..."She is the first to fall, the first of us to fall--"
and apparently the microphone picked up a signal from a local airport because apparently they were near an airport during this part (it was a story from awhile back, I don't know what production)
"the first of us to fall--PSHHZZT this is air traffic controller, we have you clear for landing." |
Oh gosh, that is so funny!
We've had the left-the-mic-on-in-the-bathroom thing done to us too, once during Brigadoon and during Fiddler on the Roof, I believe. Oops. |
Same thing happened to me during a performance of Oklahoma I did when I was in 7th grade. Serrin (he played Will) comes in from doing a song,"Kansas City" during one of our dress rehursals. He was SO pissed. He starts ranting about how he hates the costume crew so much, because as a prank they keep switching around his costumes and props. He was cursing them off, and he was just really being a divo. The director comes backstage and taps him on the shoulder. She says "Next time you decide to disrespect one of the members of this show, try to turn off your mic." And all of us just started snickering and he just kind of stood there.
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cha-aain
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Mine are all student edition. I've never been in one and I've never seen the show professionally but I've seen the SE a lot.
At the beginning of the second act, all the students run out and onto the stage right before singing "on these stones we will build our barricade..." At this particular theatre, the place where they run through to get to the stage is also the hallway-ish area leading to the concessions and the bathrooms. Some audience members were still on their way to their seats when the students ran out. It was really funny because one girl screamed. (That of course brought on the thought of a cool way to die�being impaled with the red flag.)
There were also a few times where there were weird sounds coming out of the microphone. There was random laughter coming from the speakers while Valjean was letting Javert go at the barricade and during Drink with Me, there was baby noises coming from the speakers. During JVJ�s death, some was singing along with him through the speakers.
Fauchelevent sings his lines: �You are a God, You come from (doesn�t know what to say, so he weakly says) saint.�
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dramatic_mizfit
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| cha-aain wrote: | | (That of course brought on the thought of a cool way to die�being impaled with the red flag.) |
That would be amazingly philosophic, haha.
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IvanP
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These aren't really bloopers, but closing night all the students really got energetic during the last battle and this was the "dialogue" of shouting between us:
"Fight!"
"Fight!"
"Fight, already!"
"For Gavroche!"
"For Eponine!"
"For all the damn lives they've wasted!"
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"Marius!"
"Aah - Marius!"
"Aah!"
"Fight!"
"Keep fighting!"
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"Enjolras!"
"No, Enjolras!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Crap!"
"Fight!"
"Dammit...."[/i]
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mrp123
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| IvanP wrote: | These aren't really bloopers, but closing night all the students really got energetic during the last battle and this was the "dialogue" of shouting between us:
"Fight!"
"Fight!"
"Fight, already!"
"For Gavroche!"
"For Eponine!"
"For all the damn lives they've wasted!"
...
"Marius!"
"Aah - Marius!"
"Aah!"
"Fight!"
"Keep fighting!"
...
"Enjolras!"
"No, Enjolras!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Crap!"
"Fight!"
"Dammit...."[/i] |
I saw a School Edition where, when Marius fell, someone screamed "NO! MARIUS! DON'T DIE!!!!!!" It struck me as strangely hysterical for no reason.
I forgot what might have been the best story of all: we're at rehearsal, doing the scene where the Bishop gives the candlesticks to Valjean. Anyway, the Bishop takes out the candles from the candlesticks, and gives the CANDLES to Valjean. The cast was hysterically laughing, and the poor Bishop had absolutely no idea what was going on. So the director tells him what we did wrong, and we re-do the scene... and the Bishop gives Valjean the candlesticks with the candles still in them. Cast cracks up, Bishop has no idea what's going on again. Director goes on stage and walks through what the Bishop has to do, the Bishop FINALLY gets it right, and we all erupt in applause. It was hysterical.
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dramaqueen220222
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| mrp123 wrote: | | IvanP wrote: | These aren't really bloopers, but closing night all the students really got energetic during the last battle and this was the "dialogue" of shouting between us:
"Fight!"
"Fight!"
"Fight, already!"
"For Gavroche!"
"For Eponine!"
"For all the damn lives they've wasted!"
...
"Marius!"
"Aah - Marius!"
"Aah!"
"Fight!"
"Keep fighting!"
...
"Enjolras!"
"No, Enjolras!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Crap!"
"Fight!"
"Dammit...."[/i] |
I saw a School Edition where, when Marius fell, someone screamed "NO! MARIUS! DON'T DIE!!!!!!" It struck me as strangely hysterical for no reason.
I forgot what might have been the best story of all: we're at rehearsal, doing the scene where the Bishop gives the candlesticks to Valjean. Anyway, the Bishop takes out the candles from the candlesticks, and gives the CANDLES to Valjean. The cast was hysterically laughing, and the poor Bishop had absolutely no idea what was going on. So the director tells him what we did wrong, and we re-do the scene... and the Bishop gives Valjean the candlesticks with the candles still in them. Cast cracks up, Bishop has no idea what's going on again. Director goes on stage and walks through what the Bishop has to do, the Bishop FINALLY gets it right, and we all erupt in applause. It was hysterical. |
I remember the night our Javert finally got the suicide right. At first he'd just stood on top of the bridge (he was supposed to jump off), he wouldn't do anything, and just kind of stand there screaming. The first night that he jumped, and got it right, we all just stood up and start clapping maniacally.
And then of course, one more good memory. Andrew, who played our majordomo in the wedding scene, played up this pompous attitude the entire scene. But when everyone had danced off, and it was just the Thernardiers singing in front, he'd look shiftily from side to side, making sure no one was looking and dance offstage. Probobly sounds odd to you, but it was one of those things that never gets old. We'd always be cracking up backstage.
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eponine_loves_marius
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im in les mis now, and it's hysterical:
When Javert first tells the students the plan, he climbed on the barracade and yelled " JESUS SAVES!" during the show.
I had a major crush on Valjean, and i found out he was gay!
Cosette fell into the pit...two broken ribs...ouch!
this kid started laughing during one day more, and got fired!
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Aimee
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| Moci wrote: | | Are yours from the London production or from when you did the workshop Aimee? |
Those two were both from the NODA summer school week I did last year. fun!!
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*Eponine
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Our school had Les Mis on Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday night, but the bloopers were the funniest on the last night:
When Javert sings "Bring me prisoner 24601" he was singing it and sang "bring me prisoner 32234" which is the center number of our school, and which we'd all had shoved down our necks for a month in the exam hall. We all cracked up at that.
Another one was on the light desk (I was light tech for the show). On the first 2 nights, the lamp we had was really hot and bright, so on the last night the other techie and I taped a blue filter over the lamp. About 30 minutes into the show, we smelt burning, the tape was melting to the lamp! So the other techie pulled the shade thing to try and free the lamp, but he pulled it right off and the lamp went bouncing away with a great big bang! We were in hysterics for ages!
And then the most random thing that isn't funny to anyone else, but obviously was to us lot on the tech side of the hall.
Tom: "  Where did the students go?"
Kieran: "Maybe they've gone for a barbecue"
I think it was just the way he said it, and how random the comment was!
I shall think of more later...
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RyanJ
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After everyone had died in the barricade and the students exited offstage with the lights off, I think one of the girls backstage...onstage...I don't know (I'm not really sure how it happened) they had a bag of fake bullets, and at one point or another, dropped the bag and bullets rolled across the entire stage. Since we couldn't just walk out on stage and pick them up, we had to waltz on the stage for the wedding scene, all the while trying to avoid the bullets.
Then, one night we had a real young boy added to our ensemble, kind of last minute but the directors figured they could fit him in our barricade scene at least. So when he died, he basically crawled into a ball, with his butt in the air. When I was supposed to get shot, I fell backwards and my head landed on his butt. Thank god it was only a rehearsal...but I'm assuming the directors caught on that there wasn't enough room for him and had him doing something else and had him exit the stage earlier on in the barricade scene.
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dramatic_mizfit
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| RyanJ wrote: | | Then, one night we had a real young boy added to our ensemble, kind of last minute but the directors figured they could fit him in our barricade scene at least. So when he died, he basically crawled into a ball, with his butt in the air. When I was supposed to get shot, I fell backwards and my head landed on his butt. Thank god it was only a rehearsal...but I'm assuming the directors caught on that there wasn't enough room for him and had him doing something else and had him exit the stage earlier on in the barricade scene. |
That'd be enough to make me break character, haha.
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Kragey
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Well, our school makes DVDs of it, so I should look back on that...but here's what I remember!
--The original choreographer, Debbie, was HORRIFIC. She never finished anything--my friend, who played Thenardier for the third time in his life--made a set of tapes spoofing his time in our school's Les Mis production. The cast had 2 weeks left to finish the show...and Debbie had only choreographed the first half of Act I. They finally fired her and everything came out okay.
--This is going to sound crazy and not very blooper-ish, but it's pretty damn funny. The above mentioned friend has been in theater for years, and he's an absolutely marvelous actor. He got more applause than any other character at the end and people are STILL talking about how good he was.
--At the end of "Master of the House", Thenardier [Matt] landed on the table with one leg up on the air. In the DVD, you can see Madame Thenardier [Sam] slapping his arm to cue him to get off the table.
--Thenardier's microphone falls out of his bag; you can see him putting it back in his bag during "The Waltz of Treachery".
--Because our school is anal-retentive, Thenardier was not supposed to say "Jesus"...and he did anyway. XD
--After being shot, Eponine [Rachel] has a bit of trouble getting over the barricade.
--Also not a blooper, but funny as HELL. My ex-boyfriend and I were watching the show up in the nosebleed seats, so we were surrounded by old ladies. When Javert [Jinx] committed suicide, all of the ladies around us started freaking out because they thought he fell off the set. (In truth, he landed on the matress Fantine died on.)
--During "Look Down", one of the beggars dropped an apple and went scrambling after it.
--Gavroche was off key all night. I don't remember his name and I really don't care to, since he broke my ear drums. >_O
--Our sound system is really cheap (our school spends all of its money on the football team, even though they never win), and the microphones kept shutting on/off, screeching, and fizzing.
There's a few more, but I can't remember them all.
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IvanP
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| Kragey wrote: | | --Our sound system is really cheap (our school spends all of its money on the football team, even though they never win), and the microphones kept shutting on/off, screeching, and fizzing. |
Oh, ditto! Only our production this past April impressed the Board of Education so much that they're giving us a $30,000 grant for a new sound system.
But everyone feels sorry for our Javert's mic trouble anyway...
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Mr_X
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We had 2 trap doors, our Javert came out of one for the Confrontation with VJ in the sewers, and ripped a hole in his pants! He ran to the costumer to try to get it sewn up after he died, though.
Our Thenardier always got the words wrong, and during one show in The Bargain he accidentally said Mme. Then. verse (That would quite, fit the bill...) instead of his (What to do, what to say...). He managed to pull words out of his ass though and say it.
Our Enjolras was foreign, so nobody could understand what he was saying. In Red and Black, he sang:
"Red, the blood of angry men
Black, the dark of ages past
Red, a world about to dawn
Black, THE COLOR OF DESPAIR!!!"
It was so hard for us to refrain from laughing. And he did this not in 1, but 2 SHOWS! Also, on the barricade, after BHH:
"The people have not stirred
We are abandoned by those who still live in fear
The people have not heard
Yet we will not abandon those who cannot hear
(Forgot his lyrics, everyone's sitting there in silence, finally says)
Yet we will not abandon those who cannot hear"
So all the women and fathers get up and leave for no apparent reason.
On the last show, our Bamatabois had his mic fall out when wrestling with Fantine. He quickly grabbed his pack and put it in his jacket as Fantine pushed him over. Nothing was seen by the audience.
If there are any more, I'll think of it.
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Mr_X
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Wait, remembered one more.
For a school performance, the conductor decided to only give us 5 minutes for intermission. We did the student scene and it went to Marius and Eponine. Unfortunately, Eponine had no time to change, so Marius was talking to nobody. Here's how the lines went:
"Hey little boy what's this I see, God Eponine the things you do.
.....
Get out before the trouble starts, get out Ponine, you might get shot.
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There is a way that you can help, you are the answer to a prayed
Please take this letter to Cosette, and pray to God that she's still there!
(Eponine made it on JUST IN TIME to take the letter and say)
Little you know, little you care."
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inlovewiththenardier
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When Poor Gavroche died, we had Enjolras carry him offstage, and we have very small exits onstage, so when he was carrying him out, he made Gavroche hit the wall. Gavvy yelled "Ow!" and Enjolras dropped him and yelled "He lives!"
Me: They're getting ready to attack!
Director: *valley girl accent* Yay, they're attacking! Let's like, cheer!
OT: Have ya'll missed me?
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Aimee
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Its nice to see you back. 
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inlovewiththenardier
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Thanks, my computer died at the end of March, got a new one in april, wouldn't work. Had some guy come check it out. Got another computer, that wouldn't work. Then got electrical outlet fixed and put our old computer back in.
Edit: Remembered another one. In ATEOTD, everybody was acting up onstage, and it was distracting to the foreman. Then he faked hitting one of the girls at the very end and instead of saying "Right, my girl, on your way." he said "You're all fired, go away."
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IvanP
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| inlovewiththenardier wrote: | Me: They're getting ready to attack!
Director: *valley girl accent* Yay, they're attacking! Let's like, cheer! |
That reminds me of all the gaffes we had regarding that whole bit...Once our guy doing that line missed it, so I did it in about two beats of music (Pause, pause..."Therrgeddingreddytoatak!").
And then I once completely missed "Make them pay through the nose" until the last word ("Make them bleed while we can!" ... "Uh, NOSE!")
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RyanJ
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| IvanP wrote: | | inlovewiththenardier wrote: | Me: They're getting ready to attack!
Director: *valley girl accent* Yay, they're attacking! Let's like, cheer! |
That reminds me of all the gaffes we had regarding that whole bit...Once our guy doing that line missed it, so I did it in about two beats of music (Pause, pause..."Therrgeddingreddytoatak!").
And then I once completely missed "Make them pay through the nose" until the last word ("Make them bleed while we can!" ... "Uh, NOSE!") |
For a few rehearsals I remember we kept trying to figure out who said "They're getting ready to attack!"...
I remember this one night when we were doing Master of the House; Ivan, Brad, and myself were next to eachother pretending to be drunk, and at the end of the song we fell over. When I fell my arm hit the side of the turntable hard, and got scraped up real bad. Good times, good times.
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IvanP
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You think you got it bad? I still have the bruise on my elbow - and the whole fall was my idea too!
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RyanJ
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Oh yeah? Well, those scrapes really hurt! And stuff! And Aimee loves me more! 
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Aimee
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I don't know how to reposnd to that, apart from laughing. 
*reminds Ryan and Ivan I'm probably old enough to be ther mum*
PS. I hope your dual injuries heal very soon.
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RyanJ
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It's been a couple months, my scrapes still hurt! I cried for like twenty minutes. Age is just a number, Aimee. <3
lol
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dramaqueen220222
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| RyanJ wrote: | It's been a couple months, my scrapes still hurt! I cried for like twenty minutes. Age is just a number, Aimee. <3
lol |
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Rose Des Enfers
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My cousin's school had a few bloobers I could pick out in the recording they made.
In the scene with Bamatabois, he grabbed Fantine's shirt, and accidentally ripped it all the way open. (She grapped her shirt fast enough, thankfully)
In the robbery scene, one of the robbers (who happens to be my cousin's friend) tripped on the revolving stage, not once, but twice.
And in the Finale, during the "God on high..." part, my cousin was running the spotlight and accidentally dropped the handles, so for a split second you can't see Valjean.
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dramatic_mizfit
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| Rose Des Enfers wrote: |
And in the Finale, during the "God on high..." part, my cousin was running the spotlight and accidentally dropped the handles, so for a split second you can't see Valjean. |
That reminds me of the performance of Camelot we did in April; I was running the spotlight and during one of the performances during the song Seven Deadly Virtues, the spotlight fell on me! The screw that was holding the pole up came undone and the whole thing slipped down the pole, basically crushing by thumb. I bet it was pretty comic, though, because there was a spotlight on Mordred, and suddenly, it jerked straight up to the ceiling! It was too heavy for me to fix, though, and my hand hurt a lot, so I had to run all the way down the crow's nest to the audience to find the director and have him help me get it back up. Good times.
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candleshoe
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During one of our performances of the school edition, the revolve overheated during Gavroche's death. It was supposed to revolve after he died and the orchestra would continue. I was one of the dead bodies surrounding Gavroche. When the revolve failed to move, the lights remained on and it was a long period of silence before the revolutionaries quickly began to turn the barricade around thmeselves. The dead bodies and Gavroche, however had to get out of the way. All we could do was scoot off. I guess that death scene wasn't as emotional with the bodies drifting offstage...the show must go on!
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Aimee
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These are funny and what I like is that they just keep coming.
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dramaqueen220222
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| Aimee wrote: | | These are funny and what I like is that they just keep coming. |
It gives me a feeling of solidarity, knowing that different people have done this show in different places and yet we can all share the same experiences and laugh about them together.
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Rose Des Enfers
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| candleshoe wrote: | | During one of our performances of the school edition, the revolve overheated during Gavroche's death. It was supposed to revolve after he died and the orchestra would continue. I was one of the dead bodies surrounding Gavroche. When the revolve failed to move, the lights remained on and it was a long period of silence before the revolutionaries quickly began to turn the barricade around thmeselves. The dead bodies and Gavroche, however had to get out of the way. All we could do was scoot off. I guess that death scene wasn't as emotional with the bodies drifting offstage...the show must go on! |
That reminds me of a line in Dirty Rotten Scoundrel (which I saw yesterday). It went something like "Hey! The whole thing moves!" (referring to the stage)
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rmwtrumpet1
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Our city just finished a production of the student version of Les Mis, obviously performed by students. At our final dress rehearsal, as Marius climbed the gate during "In My Life", his pants ripped open, and before the techs could turn off his mic, he whispered "S*&t"!
We all though it was pretty funny, and had to stop rehearsal for a few minutes for him to make adjustments with his pants.
Ryan
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mizzie
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| Rose Des Enfers wrote: | | candleshoe wrote: | | During one of our performances of the school edition, the revolve overheated during Gavroche's death. It was supposed to revolve after he died and the orchestra would continue. I was one of the dead bodies surrounding Gavroche. When the revolve failed to move, the lights remained on and it was a long period of silence before the revolutionaries quickly began to turn the barricade around thmeselves. The dead bodies and Gavroche, however had to get out of the way. All we could do was scoot off. I guess that death scene wasn't as emotional with the bodies drifting offstage...the show must go on! |
That reminds me of a line in Dirty Rotten Scoundrel (which I saw yesterday). It went something like "Hey! The whole thing moves!" (referring to the stage) |
And ironically, DRS is in the old Les Mis�rables theatre! You probably knew that....but it's still a fun little trivia piece....♪♪
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Rose Des Enfers
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Of course, my favorite part of the afternoon was seeing Les Mis's "Broadway Legend" thing outside the theatre.
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sweeteponine
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| Kragey wrote: | | Well, our school makes DVDs of it |
um, isnt that illegal? I thought there was really strict rules about not recording in any way?
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dramaqueen220222
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| sweeteponine wrote: | | Kragey wrote: | | Well, our school makes DVDs of it |
um, isnt that illegal? I thought there was really strict rules about not recording in any way? |
Our school had DVDs of it made. I don't think it's illegal.
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Jordan
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| dramaqueen220222 wrote: | | sweeteponine wrote: | | Kragey wrote: | | Well, our school makes DVDs of it |
um, isnt that illegal? I thought there was really strict rules about not recording in any way? |
Our school had DVDs of it made. I don't think it's illegal. |
I'd bet rather large sums of money that it is!
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dramatic_mizfit
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| dramaqueen220222 wrote: | | sweeteponine wrote: | | Kragey wrote: | | Well, our school makes DVDs of it |
um, isnt that illegal? I thought there was really strict rules about not recording in any way? |
Our school had DVDs of it made. I don't think it's illegal. |
I think it's only illegal if you sell it to an outside audience. Like, it's okay to make copies of it for the cast, but if you advertise and sell it for your own profit, then it's illegal.
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Moci
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I haven't checked the rules for overseas, but at least in the UK it is clearly said that:
IMPORTANT NOTE CONCERNING VIDEOING AND RECORDING OF THE SHOW
We have received a number of requests to video- or audio-record performances of LES MISERABLES SCHOOL EDITION and have to make absolutely clear that this is not permitted under any circumstances.
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Jordan
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| Moci wrote: | I haven't checked the rules for overseas, but at least in the UK it is clearly said that:
IMPORTANT NOTE CONCERNING VIDEOING AND RECORDING OF THE SHOW
We have received a number of requests to video- or audio-record performances of LES MISERABLES SCHOOL EDITION and have to make absolutely clear that this is not permitted under any circumstances. |
I believe large sums of money are owed to me now
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dramatic_mizfit
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Aha. Well thank you for clearing that up.
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Kragey
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They've been doing it in our school for years, but I know for a fact that all of the money they make from the DVD is used to pay for the rights. (The directors and managers pay for it from their own pockets and the sells from the tapes/DVD are meant to make up for it, is how I understand it.)
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Meliara
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We had little kids in our show, it was ages 6-21. And these stupid kids realized they were on the wrong side of the stage and would run across it. Once it was during Javert's Suicide (and a performance), it was freakin hilarious. "As I stare into the void..." *kid runs across stage with wig cap and half his costume on*
Also we had people dying before the sound effect gunshots went off. tee-hee.
And with the mics not being turned off, right after Enjorlas was offstage he said "Thank F**king God I'm finally dead! I gotta pee so bad!" During a performance.
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IvanP
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Reminds me of when we ran in-school previews before our run. Not a good idea. They went from beginning with the Beggars up through One Day More, and so it was a tad on the confusing side. And the students in the audience didn't want to be there, and I remember one bit:
Gavroche: "Listen to me...General Lamarque is dead!"
*pause*
Smart-aleck in the audience: "Gasp!"
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inlovewiththenardier
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Whoa! Just remembered another blooper.
Our director would always tell us that, backstage, you can hear anything. But we would never listen and keep talking. Well, during one of the shows, some kid forgot that you can hear everything back there, and during A Little Fall of Rain it went something like this...
Eponine- This rain will wash away what's past.
(loud extended fart surrounded by cheers and screaming)
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Aimee
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These would be the versions of Les Mis TWAV is always saying do Les Mis no good at all.
hehehe
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IvanP
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I think the Syntax Police are officially after you now.
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Aimee
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LOL yip. I think you're right. No doubt TVAW will put it right for me. hehehe
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RyanJ
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| IvanP wrote: | Reminds me of when we ran in-school previews before our run. Not a good idea. They went from beginning with the Beggars up through One Day More, and so it was a tad on the confusing side. And the students in the audience didn't want to be there, and I remember one bit:
Gavroche: "Listen to me...General Lamarque is dead!"
*pause*
Smart-aleck in the audience: "Gasp!" |
I love school previews since none of my friends are in the drama group, so they get to see what I've been up to and whatnot. School previews can be fun, but in our case we have a pretty unappreciative audience of students.
This wasn't a big blooper, but one time during Master of the House, Madame Thenardier was supposed to bring me and this other guy two mugs, but there was only one left. I improved and took his glass, pretended to chug the rest of it, and then he took it back and gave me an angry/dissapointed type look. It was pretty funny.
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IvanP
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Haha...you and Brad sitting there in the middle of everything - I remember going over to chat during the song and you were, like, "Where's my drink?" every night...
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jack_134
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- I was Vajean. On the 5th performance, five minutes before the show was over, I was rushing to get on stage for the Finale. I ran down the stairs and slipped. BAM! I broke my ankle. Jenni and Bria (Cossette and Marius) came around me with like 8 other people and pulled me onstage where I finished the rest of the show and had to do the rest of the perfomances with a cast and a cane.
- Director: "EVERYONE, STOP TALKING SO LOUDLY!"
"RYAN, STOP PRACTICING SO LOUDLY!" (I'm Ryan by the way.)
- Me: "How quite it must be, I can see. With only me for *Burp!*... comp... any..."
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lilprima2b
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When I saw the tour last year, Cosette put down the water bucket, and it fell over and eventually rolled into the orchestra pit.
My school did Les Mis the year before I started there, and there's some famous story about some techie getting stuck in the barricade and ending up in his underwear because he thought it would be a good idea to take off his clothes to get out of it. rofl. I would have loved to have seen that one...
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Aimee
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hehehe me too. The visual image of a near naked man crawling ot of the barricade is a goody.
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dramatic_mizfit
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Haha, that really cracks me up. If it were me, I would have just stayed vewy vewy still...I would be wearing black after all...and hope that nobody noticed haha.
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Aimee
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LOL, 'vewy, vewy' indeed.
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The Very Angry Woman
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| lilprima2b wrote: | | When I saw the tour last year, Cosette put down the water bucket, and it fell over and eventually rolled into the orchestra pit. |
Hold on...
I was at that performance, too.
(Unless she just had a penchant for doing that in Las Vegas.)
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lilprima2b
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I saw it at 8 PM on Saturday, November 6, 2004.
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olly
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Ha November 6 is my Birthday!
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dramatic_mizfit
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Weird, November 6 is my mom's birthday as well.
Speaking of props falling off the stage, when I was in a production of Guys and Dolls, during the number "Take Back Your Mink" I pulled off my pearls (they were velcroed at the back) and they came apart, flew everywhere and hit the pianist in the face. I felt so bad, haha.
Totally unrelated, I know, but it reminded me.
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Aimee
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| The Very Angry Woman wrote: | | lilprima2b wrote: | | When I saw the tour last year, Cosette put down the water bucket, and it fell over and eventually rolled into the orchestra pit. |
Hold on...
I was at that performance, too.
(Unless she just had a penchant for doing that in Las Vegas.) |
Oh how much funnier it would have been if it was full.
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The Very Angry Woman
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| lilprima2b wrote: | | I saw it at 8 PM on Saturday, November 6, 2004. |
Yep, I was at the same show.
Don't forget, the barricade broke down and died right before One Day More. I'd say that's a bigger blooper than Gabriella Malek dropping the bucket, but maybe the bucket was just a sign of things to come.
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dramatic_mizfit
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Oops.
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Lesmiserables24601
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haahWe had the opening night of our production tonight, and, on the barricade, a hilarious mistake was made concerning the lines, 'Make 'em pay through the nose' and 'make 'em pay for every man' with the line being sung as 'Make them pay for every nose' not by one, but both performers. Classic.
Or even better, Javert in his suicide reaching his hand up into the air as he screams the last note, only to have the special's stay up for another ten or so seconds. Fun
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Aimee
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What did he do?
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Lesmiserables24601
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WhooWhat, Javert? After a few seconds he just sort of pulled a strange face and put his arms by his side. He looked pathetically at the audience, then proceeded to throw his arm up in the air again as the lights began to dim. Classic.
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Aimee
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LOL, I love the 'looked pathetically at the audience' bit.
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bloodmoney
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During the Wedding scene, Thenardier and myself really used to ham it up by dancing horribly and bumping into as many guests as we could. One night, he swung me around so hard that I lost my grip and slammed into one of the other women, knocking her away from her partner and me flat on my ass in front of the entire audience. The hoop that I had on flew up, revealing my bloomers to anyone within 5 miles of the auditiorium. I got up and brushed myself off, and (in character) slapped my husband for being an idiot.
And on a separate occasion, the two set pieces for Paris didn't quite make it to their hashes, so the bridge was off when it came down on the flybar. Our Javert went ahead with the scene and climbed onto it, but it tipped when he jumped and he hit the stage really hard. (The floor pads apparently hadn't made it out that night as well.) We seriously thought his ankle was broken, but he actually managed to walk away.
But best of all, on closing night the Thenardiers mooned the audience at curtain call. Just because we could.
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GlamorousGriz
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| bloodmoney wrote: |
But best of all, on closing night the Thenardiers mooned the audience at curtain call. Just because we could. |
That's bloody brialliant!
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IvanP
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Re: haah | Lesmiserables24601 wrote: | We had the opening night of our production tonight, and, on the barricade, a hilarious mistake was made concerning the lines, 'Make 'em pay through the nose' and 'make 'em pay for every man' with the line being sung as 'Make them pay for every nose' not by one, but both performers. Classic.
Or even better, Javert in his suicide reaching his hand up into the air as he screams the last note, only to have the special's stay up for another ten or so seconds. Fun |
I once delivered that line like so:
"*pause*...(oh, crap) NOSE!"
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brizejellicle
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Last spring I was in our school's student version of Les Mis....needless to say we had some very funny moments (most of which only the cast saw).
Opening night one of the prison guards (female) actaully kicked one of the prisoner (they were supposed to mime the actions not really hit/kick them)
All but one of the lead men were gay which lead to some interesting problems. Marius didn't want to kiss Cosette. Enjolras and Grantaire ended up dead ontop of each other one night. A gay salior tried to feel me up during Lovely Ladies.
Maruis died in the wrong scene one night. Died during First Attack but got back up once I hissed at him from the wing that it was the wrong scene.
I was nearly knocked out by the Red flag during Do You Hear the People Sing, because I got to carry out the chair Grantaire stood on and one night he pulled it too far forward and almost took me out while he spun the flag.
Marius almost didn't clear the garden wall on night.
Marius forgot a verse during Empty Chairs so he made up his own verse.
Marius was 6ft 4. Valjean was about 5ft 6. Javert was 5ft 2.
Enjolras and the students came on and started singing before the curtain opened for the second act.
Madame Thernardier actually broke a bottle on stage and glass fell into the pit.
The pit director liked to curse over the headset. (My best friend was stage manager so I could hear the director over her headset)
Gavroche almost fell off the barricade after she died (yes we had a female Gavroche but she played the role as a boy) before the students could drag her over the top
Many more that I'll add to as I remember them.
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Casey05
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BloopersIn our production, one of our chorus members was of "mature" age and almost deaf (such that he required a hearing aid, which tended to malfunction sometimes). At the end of Stars, he matter-of-factly marched onstage, standing at the top of the platform at upstage. Our actor playing Gavroche came on downstage, and just couldn't figure out why everyone was laughing. Nor could the man figure out why nobody else was onstage, or why the cafe set was not onstage.
The sound-effects cues got stuffed up in one show, so when Gavroche came on to die, rather than the single gunshots that went off at certain points throughout the song, the effects for the attack went off. But because nobody from the barricade was shooting, it sounded like machine gun fire going off on Gavroche. And the sound guy - for some reason - couldn't turn it off, so Gavroche's entire solo was drowned out.
Apparently, though, in one professional show, at the end of Master of the House the director had blocked Madame Thenardier to jump on Thenardier, who was leaning over a table. Then the revolve would spin around, carrying everyone off. But, in one show, the table legs gave way, so it and the Thenardiers fell off the revolve section of the stage. Thenardier recovered quickly, and was able to carry off the table. Madame Thenardier however, rolled off and into the pit, plowing through all of the music stands, so the musicians all had to improvise the next few bars of music.
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Chris1
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| David Thaxton wrote: | | You were the Bishop's honest guest |
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Kragey
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| brizejellicle wrote: |
All but one of the lead men were gay which lead to some interesting problems. Marius didn't want to kiss Cosette. Enjolras and Grantaire ended up dead ontop of each other one night. A gay salior tried to feel me up during Lovely Ladies. |
The E/G one made me squeal with joy.
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dramatic_mizfit
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| brizejellicle wrote: |
Maruis died in the wrong scene one night. Died during First Attack but got back up once I hissed at him from the wing that it was the wrong scene.
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How did he miss that?
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brizejellicle
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The only problem with Enjolras and Grantaire was that they were exs.
I'm really not sure why he died then other than that he can be a bit of a space cadet sometimes.
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OldDeuteronomy
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Apparently, though, in one professional show, at the end of Master of the House the director had blocked Madame Thenardier to jump on Thenardier, who was leaning over a table. Then the revolve would spin around, carrying everyone off. But, in one show, the table legs gave way, so it and the Thenardiers fell off the revolve section of the stage. Thenardier recovered quickly, and was able to carry off the table. Madame Thenardier however, rolled off and into the pit, plowing through all of the music stands, so the musicians all had to improvise the next few bars of music.
is this the incident where she ended up in the tuba? if so that happened during one of the engaments in San Francisco.
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mizzie
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| OldDeuteronomy wrote: | Apparently, though, in one professional show, at the end of Master of the House the director had blocked Madame Thenardier to jump on Thenardier, who was leaning over a table. Then the revolve would spin around, carrying everyone off. But, in one show, the table legs gave way, so it and the Thenardiers fell off the revolve section of the stage. Thenardier recovered quickly, and was able to carry off the table. Madame Thenardier however, rolled off and into the pit, plowing through all of the music stands, so the musicians all had to improvise the next few bars of music.
is this the incident where she ended up in the tuba? if so that happened during one of the engaments in San Francisco. |
This was in Making it On Broadway, right? If so, she actually landed on the drum set. The tuba thing is funny, though!
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musicalsrokmysox
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wow, it's been a while since our les mis, but here's what remember:
*second night, i was one of the women who cam on with a tray full of glasses of wine to give the men. while we were in the wings waiting to come on, another girl spun around and knocked right into me, knocking all my wine glasses down. it made sooo much noise, but luckily, none broke.
*second night, our cosette (who was a complete diva) decided that she's in charge of telling gavourach when to go on for "general lamarque is dead" problem is, she didn't actually know when it was. so the students are waiting and nothing happens. util eventually one of the students just says it and they go on with the scene.
*our eponine had a laughing problem. whenever shewas carried off stage after her death scene she would laugh histarically, and he mic was still on. also, all the students that carried her off were girls, so you basically heard a lot of noise while they were trying not to drop her.
*as part of censoring les mis, the line "seven days at seas can make you hungry for a poke" was changed into "seven days at seas can make you hungry for a joke". during the last night, that sailor changed it back to poke. i love dthe expression on our principle's face
*the couples during the wedding scene had to sort of waltz off the stage during the end of the scene, but it's a little hard waltzing straight, so we turned it into a tango. problem is, when 3 couples are trying to tango through a narrow passage it doesn't work all that well. my dancing partner and i wound up crashing into one of the wooden wings at the side of the stage, luckily they were steady enough no to fall
*one of the guys in our cast broke his wrist skiing a few months before the show. by the time of the preformance the cast was reduced to a small blue one, but how do you explain a student during the french revolution having a blue thing up to his elbow?
*during javert's suicide one night, we were sitting in the wings waiting to go on for turning. since i had one of the solos, i didn't hold anything, but i was playing with my friend's basket. the thing is, it was so dark that i couldn't see that there were plastic fruit inside the basket, and i flipped it over. the fruit went everywhere, and made a ton of noise. i'm just glad we stopped it before it rolled on to the part of the stage that you can see
*during our preview preformance, during the lovely lady scene when the guys trying to rape fantine, her shawl got caught on his shirt cuff, and they couldn't pull it free. and he was supposed to push her to the ground. i don't remember how, but they eventually freed it in time for her to be pushed over
*not really that bad, and you wouldn't even realize this if you weren't in the cast. during fantine's death scene, she was suppposed to remove her shawl and bonette, but she kept forgetting. during one of the shows it happened, so she was dying with her shawl on, which i think made the whole "it's turned so cold" line less dramatic
*this caused later problem, but during the entire rehearsal time, we rehearsed as if we could cross from the different sides of the stage. once they finished building the set, it was clear that we couldn't so every scene pretty much had to be reblocked so that ppl could be on the right place, now the problem that happened with this was that that meant that the costumes also had to be on ceritn sides of the stage. second night i realized that i left my lovely lady costume on the wrong side, so i ran as fast as i could and could hardly sing the overture since i was so out of breath. also, our madame thenardier forgot to cross over while the curtines were still closed and had to run across the stage in the dark after javert jumps off the bridge. thing is, she was wearing heels, and the part where she crossed was made out of hollow wood. you can figure for yourself the amount of noise that made.
*lovely ladies change was the fastest chage ever. we had to go from wearing flats, socks, pants/skirts, black tank-tops, button down shirts, bonettes and shawls and having dirty make-up on, to wearing, high heels, white skirts/white pants, white tank-tops, corsets, having our hair tied up high, slutty make up all during i dreamed i dream. thinking back on it it seems like enough time, but in reality it wasn't at least half of us nearly missed the change every night.
*i played brujon, one of the thenardier's gang ppl. but before me a different girl played him. so when we blocked master of the house i had this whole scene with two of my friends about a cheating and stuff, it was hillarious and our director said that ppl couldn't even focus on thenardier's song because they were so focused on us. once i got my part, the director said that i had to play a guy, that obviously caused a lot of problems. also, the second girl (who played a student) also had to be a guy. it took about 2 weeks' begging to convince her to let us both be girls. but it was way worth it
*everynight i fell up the stairs at least once (yes up the stairs, meaning while going up the stairs). second night, i missed a step going down after at the end of the day and sprained my ankle. i had to get into heels and do the lovely ladies dance with a sprained ankle. it was so swollen at the ned of that night that it's ridicoulos
*every single night woman #3's mic during turning didn't turn on. we don't know why, i mean she was the last person to sing, they ahd the most time to turn it on, but they never did
*our sewers (from rue plumet) were a hole in the stage that had a liding door over it. one of the crew members was supposed to crawl under the stage and open it before the scene. but we go on stage for attack on rue plumet, and the sewer is still closed. so if you look at the videos you see thernardier yelling at eponine and kicking a piece of the stage, it's quite amusing cuz most ppl have no idea what he's doing
*it's very simple. our eponine couldn't sing. she just couldn't. like, she has a good pop voice, but a really crappy broadway voice. plus she couldn't remember the words to on my own. every night there would be a different version. my favourite was "in the darkness tha trees are full of starlight the trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers" whenever i want to make my firends laugh i ask them why they think she likes trees so much (she kept the trees part in the correct verse too, so she basically spoke about trees three times during one song)
*o yeah, our cosette couldn't sing either. cosette is a soprano. our cosette was a maybe a mezzo. the only reason she got the part was because she was best friends with the director and everyone knows that. so everytime she had to hit a high note her she would wince and look like she was in a lot of pain. also, most of us thought the windows would shatter everytime she hit the note at the end of marius and cosette because it was just insanly off key
*our marius and javert were gay. so javert was just really cute, while marius just had no chemistry with cosette or eponine. plus he had the whiniest voice ever!
*we had an amazing valjean. first time he sang bring him home ppl were in tears it was amazing. thing is, he smokes. so you could actually hear how as we got closer to preforming day his voice slowly got worse and worse and he couldn't hit tha notes as sharp or as high anymore. to the audience he still sounded good, but he just really was not as good as when we started rehearsing
*funniest thing ever. our thenardier wasn't sure he could remember the words to maser of the house, so every night before his scene he would go in the closet and sing it. it was realy amusing to watch
*i wore my bonette during at the end of the day meaning that when i changed into my lovely ladies outfit i had to leave it on the right side of the stage. problem was, i needed it on the left because that's where i got on for master of the house. so i had to hide it in my costume under my corset. but i kept forgetting. so i had to take another girl's bonette and then take it off and give it to my "boyfriend" who got off stage left to give back to her, because i had to go off stage right.
*during master of the house one of the guys got so inthusiastic that he hit his glass down really hard and the bottome broke off
*there were way to many orphans. we brought elementary school kids to be gavorouch's orphan gang. but there were way too many of them. they had to cut the beggers out of the do you hear the ppl sing scene and they didn't get that you have to move fast when you get off the stage so there's be a sort of traffic jam
*second night the second gun shot during little ppl was never sounded, so there was just sort of an akward silence for a bit
*not a goof at all. but my friends and i stole our bonettes and kept them
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The Very Angry Woman
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| mizzie wrote: | | OldDeuteronomy wrote: | Apparently, though, in one professional show, at the end of Master of the House the director had blocked Madame Thenardier to jump on Thenardier, who was leaning over a table. Then the revolve would spin around, carrying everyone off. But, in one show, the table legs gave way, so it and the Thenardiers fell off the revolve section of the stage. Thenardier recovered quickly, and was able to carry off the table. Madame Thenardier however, rolled off and into the pit, plowing through all of the music stands, so the musicians all had to improvise the next few bars of music.
is this the incident where she ended up in the tuba? if so that happened during one of the engaments in San Francisco. |
This was in Making it On Broadway, right? If so, she actually landed on the drum set. The tuba thing is funny, though! |
Yes, it was. I'm pretty sure the Mme. T in question was Gina Ferrall.
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Orestes Fasting
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You know, musicalsrokmysox, the shift key won't bite. Promise.
Also, before you start tossing acronyms around it might be helpful to clarify whether PPL is short for Pence Per Litre, Python Programming Language, Pennsylvania Power and Light, or something else entirely. It wasn't immediately discernible from context.
I'm sure your bloopers were hilarious, but honestly, I was developing eyestrain by the second one. Giant blocks of uncapitalized text make the ickle Cosette cry, and we don't want that, now do we?
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musical4eva
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Theese wer'nt funny but the were'nt meant to happen.
During our first rehearsal with pyrotechnic explosions one of them went off in this guys eye and singed his eyebrow off.
Javert fell off the bridge and broke the barricade
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| musical4eva wrote: | Theese wer'nt funny but the were'nt meant to happen.
During our first rehearsal with pyrotechnic explosions one of them went off in this guys eye and singed his eyebrow off.
Javert fell off the bridge and broke the barricade |
Okay, I understand why they weren't funny at the time, but... I hope they were both alright. Was the Javert incident at an actual performance?
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musical4eva
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No but he cut his leg pretty bad. i just remembered something else.Me and this girl were meant to clear Marius' stool and table after 'empty chairs at empty tables' We were meant to watch in a tv screen to see when Marius had finished and started walking to Cosette then go on look like we were cleaning then leave with the stool and table. In the first actual performance one of the stage hands wouldnt let us watch the screen so we didnt know when to come on. Hew then told us when to go on but at the wrong time. We just stood there ,while he sat there, and pretended to clean a bridge. smooth
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olly
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| Orestes Fasting wrote: | You know, musicalsrokmysox, the shift key won't bite. Promise.
Also, before you start tossing acronyms around it might be helpful to clarify whether PPL is short for Pence Per Litre, Python Programming Language, Pennsylvania Power and Light, or something else entirely. It wasn't immediately discernible from context.
I'm sure your bloopers were hilarious, but honestly, I was developing eyestrain by the second one. Giant blocks of uncapitalized text make the ickle Cosette cry, and we don't want that, now do we? |
I'm sure you know, but the 'word' "ppl" is an abbreviation, not an acronym, of the word 'people'.
These text-messaging abbreviations piss me off. It's simply sheer laziness.
Not pointing to anyone, just a little peeve of mine (and many others')
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Jordan
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Without meaning to sound like an old meanie, musicalsrokmysox, a lot of your bloopers could so easily have been avoided if there were a little professionalism amongst the cast.
Incidents of corpsing are a) bad but b) especially bad when the mic has been left on due to the incompetance of the sound crew
Playing with props in the wing is highly unprofessional. If you don't know a prop/how it works, do NOT play with it. It's NOT yours, it has NOTHING to do with you, LEAVE IT ALONE!
Being the wrong side of the stage is a classic under-rehearsed mistake.
I have no idea how one could manage to fall on the stairs EVERY night, whether it be up or down them. I presume it to be over-exuberance and high spirits, but that CAN and WILL take away from performances.
Not knowing lyrics is particularly poor. I see no excuses here.
I would NOT have liked to see your performance. It doesn't sound to me like half the cast had their hearts in it but were just doing it for the craic.
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musicalsrokmysox
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| Orestes Fasting wrote: | You know, musicalsrokmysox, the shift key won't bite. Promise.
Also, before you start tossing acronyms around it might be helpful to clarify whether PPL is short for Pence Per Litre, Python Programming Language, Pennsylvania Power and Light, or something else entirely. It wasn't immediately discernible from context.
I'm sure your bloopers were hilarious, but honestly, I was developing eyestrain by the second one. Giant blocks of uncapitalized text make the ickle Cosette cry, and we don't want that, now do we? |
i apoligize. it's just when i start i can stop, i've been waiting for like 2 years to be able to say exactly what i want without anyone telling me to shut up. but yeah, ppl is just and abbreviation of people, i hate spelling that word and find it more convinient to write it as ppl (wow i can't spell)
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