Bloopers

musical4eva

not meaning to sound stuck up but Les Mis was the first proper show we did at our school. The whole cast were extremely comitted and gave it 110% We got amazing reviews and everyone who saw it thouroughly enjoyed it.

eponine5

Mademoiselle Lanoire

convict24601

Jordan

musical4eva

Oh. Thank you. I may have posted a rant about how great our show was. Sorry.

Orestes Fasting

musicalsrokmysox

Orestes Fasting

No, what's offensive is that you apparently don't value the conversation here enough to make your posts legible.

I don't give a rat's ass whether you have typos here or there, but the shift key is there for a reason. Leaving everything uncapitalized doesn't make you look cool, just lazy.

musicalsrokmysox

Orestes Fasting

eponine5

Orestes Fasting

Ehehe, yes. I'm not at liberty to speak about how I know this, but yes, they did.

I'm not sure about Broadway, but I know that the Les Mis national tour actors had a lot less leeway to improvise in general than in the West End. At least, in the nine or ten times I saw the national tour I never heard Courfeyrac shout "Shoot the bastard! I'll shoot him right between the bloody eyes!" during Javert's capture. And the final performance of the 3nt had no "bloopers," just Joan bursting into tears halfway through I Dreamed a Dream. Oh, and extra Amis and female ensemble running around so that the swings could be part of it.

As for last performances, though, in the shows I've been in, even short amateur runs of a weekend or two, there has definitely been mucking around during final performances. I could tell stories. Wink

eponine5

Storytime!

please?

Orestes Fasting

What, like the director wandering around the stage on closing night in the nightclub scene in Company, stuffing dollar bills down the girls' tops? The random outbreaks of swear words? The three little maids who, all unwary, came from a ladies' cemetery?

...yes. Closing nights are fun.

Cloudy This Morning

Here's a link to a list of bloopers from the Duisburg production in Germany. Javert's buttons, for instance, once got caught on the bridge during his suicide and he was nearly lifted up.

http://www.damiens.freehomepage.com/-----ups.htm

Orestes Fasting

(General Lamarque ist tot!)
Karl Marx ist tot. (Dann Enjolras : LahahahaMahaharque ist tohohot.)

*giggle*

(Vergessen wir sie nie.)
Essen wir sie nie.

Only YOU can prevent barricade boy cannibalism.

(Trinkt auf all die M�dels die Mann gern' h�tt')
Trinkt auf all den M�dels die Mann gern' h�tt'

This is why we learn our cases and articles properly, children.

Thanks for the link, these are terribly amusing.

Cloudy This Morning

No prob. Oh man, I really cracked up over that Lamarque one. Whew, boy. They should really be more careful. Wink

Buzzer

I was in Les Miz twice, with the same director. She is like so obsessed with Les Miz. Well, you know how theres next to no boys in the plays? Well, she transforms minor guy parts into girls.

The first time, she added a bunch of characters, that would normally be something like Girl 1, or something and gave them background and such. I was Gabrielle, mother died, and her father abandoned her. Street urchins found her and raised her with the help of prostutites, beggers and theives, and she was a member of the gang. At this point, I was eleven, and looked eight. She was Gavroches best friend, and when he gave the news about Lemarque, I screamed at the top of my lungs, and then Gavroche gave the news. And I didn't die, I left with the ppl when Enjorlas decided not to waste lives. So I lived and got to sing a fair few of the lines in turning, and even a bit of a fight. And actually one time the woman I'm supposed to be fighting, Madam Labouche, flipped me off, and I "bit" her. There was a cat fight and the other girls pulled us apart.

So the second time around, I was thirteen, but looked ten/eleven and I played Gavroche. During the death scene, she had Grantaire run over to me and carry me offstage, and the person playing Grantiare is very clumsy. He smashed me into a trifold. I swore quite loudly, and the director had been nagging about staying in character, so Grantaire lifts me up, swings me around, and says "Gavroche, you live!" and was taking me back to the barricade, where all the students were cheering, and someone yells "BOOM!" and I die again. Grantaire falls to his knees and is like "NOOO!" and we all cracked up. It was a school performance and everyone was in hysterics. One of the directors notes was "Gavroche, it was very well handled, but don't come back to life." And during a real performance, when I died, someone screamed, "NO! KILL EVERYONE BUT GAVROCHE! NOT MY GAVROCHE!" It was actually amusing. I was giggling into the dummy I died over.

And during a rehersal, when Valjean called Ponine a boy, she looked down her shirt and said "I beg to differ. I got boobs!"

olly

The West End production last night, during the curtain call, Eponine came running on then stumbled over her coat and fell over onto her front. She put her hand over her mouth and started laughing, then when she was walking back, she brought her coat up over her head.

Then Javert came on laughing, and mocked her tripping by doing a fake stumble. Very amusing.

MrMarius

I saw the show last night also, and saw Sabrina Aloueche (Eponine) take a bit of a fall! Embarassed

She was coming out for her bow with Sophia when it happened. The cast were all chuckling over something at the time also- so when sabrina and Sophia Ragavelas came out they too were laughing. Sabrina fell over her coat- it seems it may be a little too big for her- and landed on her knees. The audience reacted brilliantly as did Sabrina who threw in a very over the top bow and then turned to find the entire cast were too applauding her! Applause

She covered herself in her coat and ran into the arms of Thenardier!
Jeff Nicholson then came out for his bow and re-enacted the fall - much to the amusement of the audience! Sabrina was carried off the stage by Jenna Boyd and another member of the ensemble.
Something I am sure that this cast will not forget for a while!!! Applause

LittleGavroche

In a production I did:
-During "Bring Him Home" Valjean's beard and sideburns fell off. We were all cracking up backstage and he just kept singing as the beard swung off his face. Then when he was done he hid his face behind a crate while Enjolras was singing and he tried to stick it back on.
-Our show was double cast so during "Look Down" the last night's Marius came on stage wrapped in a blanket and holding a spoon. He kept hitting people with it.
-Madame Thernadier was supposed to sit down on the bench next to me during "Master of the House" and she slid to hard into us and pushed a boy off the other end.
-Carpeted ramps lead up to our stage on either side and Javert slid down one by accident and crashed into the wall.
- Javert forgot Valjean's ticket of leave so the Bishop had to sneak it out on his table.
- One of the guys on the barricade had only an arm leaning on the audience side. He didn't realize that it had lost feeling and begun to swing of its own accord when he was supposed to be dead. It was really creepy.
-The stairs leading to our stage collapsed under a few people as they walked up them during rehearsal.

TR_Wolf

TR_Wolf

TR_Wolf

Eponine93

Jemibub

The only blooper I can remember right now was:

As Valjean was dying his candles fell off the table next to him and crashed to the floor. He died mouthing, with a pathetic look, "...my candlestick holders..."

Alexia Dark

Jemibub

I remembered another from my school's production:

When Fantine was backstage during LOVELY LADIES, when she gets her -hair cut- her new wig was put on backwards; but, was quickly fixed.

Valjean also split his pants Laughing

Luckily, it was a non rented chain gang costume.

Our Marius was much taller than Valjean; so Valjean had to DRAG him through the sewers.

Also, in the drama room, we had a tv wired for a live action feed from the right wing of the stage; high up and angled looking down. We got to see, in an emotional part of the music, Valjean crawling behind the barricade before he climbs over it. Rather funny.

Orestes Fasting

When I saw the Broadway revival back in February the Rue Plumet gate broke. I don't know exactly what happened, only that it didn't anchor properly to the stage--it looked kind of loose going around the revolve in the intro to In My Life, but I don't think anyone in the audience realized how bad it was until Adam Jacobs climbed over the gate anyway and it slid halfway down the stage, with him on it and a stagehand frantically trying to pull it back into place while remaining mostly unseen.

Eponine93

Orestes Fasting

Maybe if you're very, very nice, TVAW will tell you the story of the show where the turntable broke. Laughing

Colle

Michael Kostroff(former Thenardier on the 3nt) tells, in his book Letters from Backstage, about when the turntable "exploded" one night in Memphis. There were sparks, but luckily it sounds like no one got seriously hurt. They had to stop the show and change the turntable drive.

Jekkienumber24601

We didn't have a rotating stage, so we rotated the barricade oursleves and on opening night it smashed into a pillar on the side and our Enjolras very clearly said "Shit!"

When Eponine died one night and they start to carry her body away our Marius shouted "Wait, just 5 more minutes!" We all just turned away from the audience and started laughing and Enjolras hugged him and whispered in his ear "why the f@ck do you need her for 5 minutes?

brizejellicle

Orestes Fasting

More Broadway bloopers:

"She said to give it to Cosette!"

"Give me brandy on my breath and I'll breathe them all to death!"
*silence*
*silence*
*silence*
"So... what are we going to doooo..."
*thumb twiddling*
".........Hey everybody, General Lamarque is dead!"

The revival cast is also one of the most foul-mouthed Les Mis casts I've heard of; Lea Salonga regularly calls Dan Bogart as Bamatabois some variation on "f**king bastard," and I swear I heard Alex hiss "son of b*tch" at Javert this afternoon--and in the scene where Valjean lets Javert go, at that!

Quique

^ You and I need to see Les Mis together. We'd have so much fun, lol.

But first, I need to save more $$$$. Grrr.

yoyoyo

On the sunday matinee recently the gavroche messed up (i think someone already posted it but idk) at the end of red and black where gavroche is supposed to interrupt there singing and tell them larmaque is dead..well the students finished the song and gavroche was a no show. So after a few second of awkward mumbling and Enjorlas banging on the table (to get the little actor to come out) we all hear this pitter-patter of footsteps back stage and here comes gavroche scrambling all over the set out breath yelling "listen!!" (when no one was really talking) and then huffed and puffed out..."General Lamarque is dead" there was no reaction time between that the when the song continues they just kept right on singing...hahaha it was funny....

Orestes Fasting

Actually, Zach Rand's been with the Broadway production since March.

And yep, must've been the same Sunday matinee. Laughing

SianZena

Miss Tessa

I was in Les Mis this year for my highschool, so obviously there were many amusing mishaps.

-When Eponine sings 'In my life, there's been no one like him anywhere, anywhere where he is. If he asked, I'd be his', the music completely stopped, and her voice cracked b/c she was crying

-One night when our Javert jumped off the 'bridge', the lights came on when he was scrambling back up on the stage

-During 'Lovely Ladies', Fantine was supposed to be surrounded by girls so they could help put on her short haired wig, but they didn't have enough time one night and her ponytail was hanging out of the back, giving her a lovely mullet

-In 'At The End of the Day' when Fantine and the worker girl fight, the girl playing the worker's skirt came undone in the back and almost fell completely off

-I was Cosette, who is obviously all prim and proper, and for 'One Day More' Valjean kneels behind me and puts his hands on my shoulders, but was rougher than usual, and pulled one side of my dress completely down

Paula74

For all the times I've seen this show, I've never personally seen a mishap.

However, Hugh Panaro filled me in on two mishaps from last year's production in Philadelphia.

The wigs for the show were not so great. OK, the convict wigs were really bad. Hugh had to have most of his wigs redone a day or two into previews.

Well, during previews, Hugh was signing "What Have I Done?" and was vaguely aware that his wig might have been pulled lose during the arrest with the Bishop's silver. Well, as he's singing the soliloquy, he realized that his head seemed cool...he looked down and his wig was on the floor in front of him. And people were laughing. He managed to bend towards it and flip the wig back onto his head.

He shared that story in a podcast interview with D.C. TheatreScene last year, but didn't mention that when he exited the stage after that scene, he started swearing over the wig problem and his mic wasn't cut off fast enough. He said, "So, Paula, if you get any angry e-mails from people who say, 'I was at the show last night and I could hear Hugh Panaro cursing backstage...' um, yeah, that's what happened."

The other incident took place during "At The End of The Day." When Hugh changed into his mayor costume, his pants were missing. And there was also no time to grab his convict pants or any others. So, he had to walk out onto this catwalk above the factory floor with his legs bare. He tried to keep to the section where his legs were blocked from view by bolts of fabric draped over the rails, but it was extremely awkward.

I remember saying something about that all be more appropriate for a certain verse of "Lovely Ladies" and getting a shocked, indignant look from him.

flying_pigs

BUMP!

London 2005, Hayden Tee sung "A heart full of song, a heart full of....song!"

Last week; the chair in Confrontation broke as David Shannon swung it up and it landed on Rebecca Seale (Fantine)

And at the same show, Thaxton got whipped in the face with the flag in Upon These Stone.

And one more, from 2007, Gary Watson swung Cassie Compton round so hard at the beginning of A Little Fall of Rain that her hat fell off!

Sabrina Aloueche (Eponine) came on for the Finale with a hand-held fan attached to her wig!

Not really a blooper but on JOJ's last night in London, Gavroche ran in at Red and Black and said "General Lamarque is.............................dead", it was the longest pause I've ever heard!

Elbow

Thaxton tripped over a gun yesterday.

And when I went to see Les Mis on... I think it was... the 12th of May, Jimmy Johnstone sang "Lock up your valises" instead of "everybody raise a glass" So it went "Lock up your valises!" "RAISE IT UP THE MASTERS ARSE!" The looks among the cast were amazing. Johnston looked confused at what he'd just sang and most of the cast just burst out laughing, which was fine because it sort of fits in with the whole scene.

flying_pigs

Hahahaha, I love the mental image I have of Thaxton tripping over the gun!

Oh and one more; last July, John Jo pushed Nancy so hard during the Robbery that she fell over!

aquirkofmatter

At the end of Lovely Ladies on Monday George's blood-hankie-thing obviously hadn't been put in his pocket properly or something - the blood ended up all over his waistcoat, and he was trying to pull his jacket over to disguise it, which just involved a weird shrugging of his right arm. When Fantine did scratch him, there was hardly any left for his cheek and a lovely pink stain on his yellow waistcoat.

And when I was there the week before, he didn't have any on stage at all, so was pointing at his face at 'you can see she left her mark' but there was nothing there.

He's obviously not had much luck recently!

CabaretGirl

Eponines_Hat

Elbow

Not flat on his face or anything, but I think somebody left their gun on the floor for some reason, it might have been after Eponine's death, or just before Gavroche's death, and as Thaxton walked across the stage he tripped over it slightly. He recovered well though, angrilly picking it up and shoving it in... er... whatsit, I'm going to call him Calimari. The new Montparnasse. I can't remember his name, shoving it in his hand anyway.

flying_pigs

Thomas Camilleri Smile

Eponines_Hat

mezzo_soprano

(I just got cast in Les Mis the play. But these are bloopers from practicing for auditions and during auditions)

Practicing my sister audition scene for Adele (Barricade girl). A friend read Henri. I doubled as Marius and a random citzen (marius was replaced by a guy during the real audition. we were making do!)

Adele:To the Barricades!
Henri: To the Barricades!
Me as random annoyed citizen: (improving) Eff YOU!
ADELE and HENRI: *die of laughter*

My friend, Brandon, and I were preparing a scene between Marius and Cosette for his audition.

Marius: I know what must be done.
Cosette: what can be done?
Marius: I will ask my aunt's permission to marry you.
Cosette: Really? Is such a thing possible? *attempts to rise from her chair like a lady. Fails and ends up in a heap on the floor*
Marius: *Drops character and starts laughing at me. Hysterically*
Me (Picking self up off floor): Laugh now buster. If that happens during the audition, you best get over here and make sure your fiance is OKAY!

My Friend, Adam, was reading the confrontation scene. I was dead Fantine. (So adam had someone to Work with when JVJ promises Fantine cosette will be taken care of. And to prove to the director I could hold still while dead) I should mention that the scene had been run through without me, so the first time I was in was at the real audition. And I'm a jumpy person. Especially at loud noises.

JAVERT: #24601
VJV: I AM WARNING YOU!
*fight ensues, Javert is tosses to the ground with a little more oomph then intended. Big boom. Dead Fantine Jumps.*

VJV: *pretending nothing went wrong* Fantine, I promise you. . .

One of my audition scenes was Fantines death. It was a difficult scene and I was really nervous.

Before the scene.

Adam and I: *general mumbling about where to set the chair* *Set up chair and get ready. we are set*
Director: *Laughs* *turns horrifided*
Director: Oh Rachel, I'm so sorry. I didnt mean to laugh right before your big scene here. It was Hocking! She said something.
Hocking (the AD): Its called ADHD. I has it.
Me: its fine. Becca (my sister) laughs through death scenes in movies.
Becca (from audience): DID YOU SEE THAT MOVIE?? (1998 les mis)

After

*General mumbling between Adam and I about how the scene went fine.*

Me: *LOOK OF HORROR*
Adam: What?
ME: I FORGOT TO COUGH!!! I JUST DIED OF TB AND I FORGOT TO COUGH!!!!!!!

mezzo_soprano

oh and after audition Randomness.

Randomness later after callbacks. Some of us were going to get Ice Cream. And the director parked her car in a different lot than normal so she had to go down the front steps with all the kids. We were all kinda silly from the stress of the long callbacks, and realllly wanted ice cream.

Director: *walks down stairs ahead of my group. stops for a second.*

My group: *Run down stairs* TO THE BARRICADES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Director: Okay then. Wow.

darthlorexa

It's been a few months since I was in my production of Les Miserables but I do remember some funny things happening in rehearsals/during the production.

One night during rehearsals we didn't have any of our Valjeans but we had both of our Javerts (the two roles were double cast), so one of the Javerts stepped in to fill Valjean's part for one scene.

Except at the start he did Valjean's bit and then he started to sing one of the other character's lines as well, which was the Innkeeper. So it went a bit like this:

Valjean (Javert): Sings line, starts to sing innkeeper's line, realizes it's not the one he's supposed to be singing
Everyone else: Starts laughing
Director: Do you want to sing the whole show now?

I also remember during another rehearsal where the actor who was rehearsing Valjean for that night kept disappearing during the scenes he wasn't on but he was required for the next scene so everyone had to keep looking for him. After the third or fourth time the director was like, "Oh where is *insert actor's name* now?*

During the actual production I remember that in one of the matinee's, the boy playing Gavroche nearly fell off the barricade during his death scene and also Marius missed his entrance during the building of the barricades because he was up in the Green Room and didn't realize that he had to be on. If I remember correctly he had just made a cup of coffee and then had to leave the coffee and race down so that he could get on stage.

Brackynn

My Les Mis production just closed a few weeks ago ... we all definitely came out of it with a few stories to tell.

During ABC Cafe, Enjolras would use a chair as a step as he leapt onto the table. On preview night, the chair was in the wrong place, and if Enjolras had executed the move as usual, he would have stepped on a pile of bowls and tankards. He didn't realise this until he was about to spring off the chair. Everyone in the green room was staring in horror at the monitor as we watched him teeter back and forth before falling straight back onto the stage, landing on his tailbone. Fortunately, the only thing seriously hurt was his dignity Wink

Another memorable barricade boy story came about during the Final Battle. Grantaire and Enjolras were the last men standing, and Grantaire would grab Enjolras and take a bullet for him before collapsing at his feet. One night, Grantaire went for the grab one bullet sound effect too early, started falling anyway, then must have realised because he sort of half-staggered back to his feet in time to get shot again.

One night, Thenardier totally blanked out on the words to Master of the House. Amazingly, he started pulling lines from all over the song and mashing them together with a few of his own creations and for the most part, they made sense and even rhymed. Best improvisation I've ever seen.

At the end of A Heart Full of Love, Eponine would be kneeling as she sang her part in the trio, before Montparnasse came along. One night, her boot got caught in one of the holes in her skirt, rendering her unable to get up without a) ripping the skirt or b) pulling it down. She sort of just stayed kneeling, trying to jiggle her foot out and finally succeeded as Montparnasse pulled her to her feet just in time for, "He'll think this is an ambush..."

And speaking of A Heart Full of Love, there was that lovely moment on opening night ... I, as Cosette, was sitting on a bench and Marius was standing behind me. Normally, he would bend over, take my hand and we'd run off together. This time, my hair had gotten caught on one of his jacket buttons. I had to run off with my head attached to his stomach and face inches from his crotch. Two of the sound guys managed to detangle me with moments to spare before Marius and I had to run on again. Slightly stressful.

And one more costume malfunction from me ... my wedding dress became a running joke throughout the company for how well it emphasised my, erm, assets, and the tendency of the bodice to pop open if I made a sudden movement or breathed in too deeply. One night, I ran on for the final scene, and as I knelt next to Valjean's chair, my top button decided to go. I ended up using the letter he gave me very strategically.

Of course there are plenty more, but those are the ones that first came to mind Smile

I miss that show...

Eppie-Sue

Okay, so, the only bloopers I can think of from the last London shows are, um, from this Saturday, when lots of people were off and all the swings were on and Greg Castiglioni seemed to be kind-of out in his estimation after the slow-mo scene in "One Day More" where they all get ready for the marching, seeing as he (as... Joly) ended up a bit in front of DT.

And yesterday Thomas Camilleri basically sang "Go home, �Ponine, go home, yaaaAAAAAHRGH" ... no idea how that happened, maybe Nancy!Eponone kicked him a bit too early. hm.

But, basically, that's all. It's not much...

darthlorexa

I've remembered some other things that happened during rehearsals during our production:

During a rehearsal for Fantine's death, the actor who was rehearsing Valjean that night began to sing his part but instead of 'Oh Fantine', he began with 'Oh Cosette'. The director then goes, "you're a bit to early for that one,"

It's not so much a 'blooper' but it was pretty funny that in every rehearsal , during Valjean's and Javert's in the 'how right you should kill with a knife' scene in the barricade, Valjean had a different utensil for every night that they rehearsed. So one night he had a plastic fork, the other night it was a spork, then a spoon etc.

Buff Daddy

During one performance, a male ensemble member (who was notorious for trying to change things each night) missed a mark during hte barricade scene.

When Valjean turns up, this guys is meant to stop and challange him until Enjolras says it's OK for him to come through.

This one night, the guys was right up the top of the barricade totally oblivious to what was happening when Valjean turns up. He suddenly realises he's totally out of place and can't do anything. One of the female ensemble realises, so jumps up and does the challenge thing instead, but without a gun. The thing was the female was this tiny little lady who, apparently through her sheer presence, can stop the man mountain of Valjean. It looked ridiculously funny!

Buff Very Happy

Buff Daddy

Just thought of another.

During the cart scene, the cart had to travel through an arch in the set (under a brdige). One night the guys "steering it missed an it clipped the bridge and got stuck. They tried to reverse and have another go but missed again. So they decided to stop.

By now the music for "Look at that! Look at that!" etc had been and gone and the cast were stuck as to what to do. Finally one brave cast member starts singing the lines at the top of her voice and gradually the rest of the cast join in. In the pit, the piano play realises what has happened and starts yelling the bar number (or measure number) to the rest of the orchestra and the conductor and we got back on track.

Buff Very Happy

Eppie-Sue

Martin Ball today... xD

"Charging for the lice, extra for the mice, two percent for sleeping with the window... uuuuuaaatwice. O.O --eeeere a little slice..."

And someone yelled something extremely loud and enthusiastic about "MUST BE TAKEN! LIBERTY ... GREAT... " (or similar) I mean... they always yell Mr. Green

but normally you can only hear that kind of stuff ("FREEEEDOOOOOM!") in BB and NOT in the very back of the stalls. xDDD

tinkerbell7733

When I saw Les Mis Gavroche was supposed to jump up on a chair-possibly during Little People? Anyways, he jumped on the chair a little too hard, lost his balance, and almost tipped the whole thing over. Luckily a member of the ensemble was close by and kind of tipped the chair back onto the floor.

Also, not Les Mis, but at a school production, the main characters pants fell down. He was just standing there, and they fell down. Luckily he was meant to go off stage right after, but a girl was supposed to start her solo, and she laughed through the entire thing Razz

Eppie-Sue

Blooper of the night.

So, you know how Enjolras gives Valjean the gun after "They're getting ready to attack!" at "Take this and use it well!" ?! - this meaning "this gun"? Wink

Mark Dugdale basically had to do that without the gun. xD He put his hand on Jonathan Williams's shoulder and went "TAKE THIS AND USE IT WELL!" with a straight face. Jonathan then got a gun at "Troops behind them! Fifty men or more!"

I can't really say what led to this. Normally, David Thaxton turns to Helen Owen (as random barricade "boy") and orders her to get a gun. Now, DT was off and Helen was on as Eponine, so both roles were being covered and there was a bit of a "Hm, I will use this semi-hug well then"-look on Jonathan's face. Wink

Eppie-Sue

I have to bump this, sorry for the double post, BUT. Major blooper tonight Very Happy

So. They had technical issues with the stage.

You all know how in ODM, Enjolras' entrance is now like - he actually just steps out into the spotlight and the turntable starts moving until he is in the centre of the stage, and he doesn't really move till the slow-mo?
Well. The stage kind of didn't turn at all. David came out of the wings, went: "I HAS GUN!", everything... and then he was standing there. On the very right - and nothing moved... And after two lines he just walked to the centre and everyone assembled around him and THEN the stage started spinning xD ... so suddenly the whole row of students and people was lopsided. And they all had to make their way back to their actual positions at the slow-mo.

But, the blooper I was actually referring to...
The left part of the barricade didn't roll off stage at The Sewers. So, it had spun round and the first tunes of Dog Eats Dog started to play, and the right part moved away alright, but the left part was stuck. Martin Ball did the first lines up to Valjean's entrance with the barricade behind him, and then the orchestra stopped the song, the curtain went down and "technical difficulties" were announced... they sorted it out after five minutes or so.

Heh.

Elbow

Ha! Onoes!

Something along those lines happened when I went to see it once. I'm not quite sure what happened, because there was nothing obvious, but something went wrong when the scenery came out in Look Down because when it was turning into The Robbery, everything just stopped and the curtain came down and they said it had been stopped due to technical difficulties. Never did fine out what happened. I just remember hearing Gavin saying "Umm.. I think we should go now."

Eppie-Sue

tonight was crazy. And there were bloopers, too...

Simon Bowman:
"And there are no ... petitions. No bargains or... petitions."

Martin Ball:
"Singing to the Lord on Sundays, praying for the gifts you send."

mezzo_soprano

My teachers have been on strike so we have been having informal line rehearsals. (READ: we practice lines. and goof off)

This was a "leads" rehearsal for the 8 main roles. Fantine, Eponine, JVJ, Javert, Marius, Cosette, and the Thenardiers. Except Cosette was at the zoo, Marius was babysitting, and Valjean forgot about rehearsal. So roles were cast in an interesting manner. And improv was the rule.

FANTINES ARREST:

JAVERT: You'll get 6 months.

FANTINE: (Me, launching into my big spiel) Six months? Six months in pri-

JAVERT: SEVEN! You are arguing!

FANTINE: (Pretending I dont hear him) -son earning seven sous a da-

JAVERT: EIGHT!

This continued for quite a while.

THE CONFRONTATION

VALJEAN: (Played by Mme Thenardier) Let me get this womans child! She's at the zoo! I will save her from the zebras.

JAVERT: Do you think I am mad? No zebras will stop me

And on and on

MARIUS AND EPONINE

Marius: (Played by Javert) Here's 30 francs. 25 for the rent. 5 for some food. one for a slinkie/

Somehow the next two scenes became about SLINKIES! I have no idea where he pulled it from either.

Eppie-Sue

Oh. And another one.
You know how at the very beginning of the Caf� scenes, Feuilly, Combeferre and Courfeyrac come running and greet each other? It often sounds like this: "Combeferre!" "Feuilly! Feuilly! What happened?!" xDD well. it did SOUND like that yesterday, the only problem was that Greg was on as Combeferre (covering for Gavin), and he went: "COMBEFERRE!" at Mark. Aka Courfeyrac.
Yes, I notice these things. xD

flying_pigs

Hahahahaha, oh Greg!

Lauraa

Eppie-Sue

xD haha,yes, I heard about that. I don't know what was up yesterday. Lots of bloopers, people ignoring the standard blocking *coughDavidcough*, the silverware during the wedding being all over the stage, things tumbling over in the wings during the quiet scenes, ... it was insane.

Elbow

Haha!

Speaking of the "Petitions... no bargains or... petitions" bit, Bowman did that Tuesday night too. I hope that doesn't become a regular mistake...

mezzo_soprano

Our director:(summerizing blocking that involved Henri, the barricade leader, tossing Valjean a gun) This would be REALLY cool!!!!!!. . . if either of you had hand eye coordination.

People on the barricade: (about Javert) Search him.
Javert: Hey hey careful! Feeling violated!
Random Smartass: (to the people) We just violated the law.

Valjean: (calling for little cosette) COSETTE!
Director: Drew, please don't use that voice! It makes small children poop themselves. PLEASE!

Eppie-Sue

Just copying the bloopers from last night in here to distract myself from the essay I'm going to get back today...

The Bargain.

Simon Bowman:
"I will pay what I must pay to take Cosette away.
... [silence, orchestra plays on]
.... ... [more silence, orchestra plays on]
For I was blind to one in need..."

then:

Look Down. Enjolras and Marius appear on the bridge.
Antony Hansen, four beats too early:
"Where are the leaders of the land...
[notices the mistake, waits one beat, SHIT written all over his face]
Where are the... swells who run this show?"
[odd looks from the ensemble]
David Thaxton, waiting three beats, to let the music catch up:
"Only one man and that's Lamarque..."

then, in DYHTPS the flag went right past David on the cart and landed on the ground. How symbolic. Killian Donnelly, I think, tried to pick it up and failed because either he or the cart was standing on it.

And Empty Chairs:

Antony:
"Where my friends will sing..."
Mobile phone going off LOUDLY.
"...
... no..."
Mobile phone is switched off.
"more..."

mezzo_soprano

More rehearsal ones:

One night at rehearsal, I was carried off the stage in my bed, dead. Or was carried till the bed tipped and I hit the stage, covers and all.

One night my top came undone in fantines arrest. Shocked

< my face

Lauraa

�When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for leaving a mouthful of bread�

Laughing

Eppie-Sue

Ah, Bowman. I do think that about a week or so ago, he sang:
"Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me luck?"

can't be sure, though.

l'ivrogne transfigur�

And:

"Yes, Cosette, forgive me now to die"

He kept stumbling over his words, and not getting them out last night...

Eppie-Sue

Thomas Camilleri in The Attack on Rue Plumet:
"Go home 'Ponine, go home, .... gnaah."
And no, Nancy didn't kick him earlier. There just weren't any words.

Apart from that there was a few small mis-haps:

Seeing as Mark is on holiday, Greg was on as Courfeyrac, and he forgot to take the map off the table in the caf� scene and fold it up around "Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?"... why is that necessary? Because during "Lamarque is dead", David will just rip the flag from the table. So, today, there was a map of Paris lying on there, which they had used to plan the entire time. When David went mental and walked round the table at: "we will kindle out flame!", he saw the map, grabbed it, threw it off the table onto the floor and then grabbed the flag. Gregfeyrac was left to meekly fold it up. It worked rather well, actually, it gave the whole thing a very "SCREW THIS! WE WON'T PLAN. WE'LL JUST RANDOMLY BUILD THE F'ING BARRICADE NOW!" edge. Very Happy

Then, in DYHTPS, he missed the flag. again. It just went right past him and no one really managed to pick it up in time. It looked so sad. xD

Speaking of things falling to the ground - in the wedding, the silverware was scattered everywhere, and Rachel Bingham's skirt hid one of the spoons when David!waiter came to pick them up - as soon as he had turned around, she moved and you could see it sparkle. You could see him and Gavin staring at it the whole way through, probably contemplating whether or not they could kick it off stage during their skips... heh. And then Martin Neely, bless his soul, saved the day and picked it up very quickly as they got in line to do the stupid dance. Good boy. Wink

Eponines_Hat

Two little bloopers today - pretty amazing considering there were probably a few hangovers on the stage!

In ALFOR Nancy sang "comfort me, shelter meeeeee" It was so flawless, I doubt anyone noticed the little mistake
Smile

In "Everyday" Emily didn't sing "The worst is over" but just patted Alaistair's arm. He seemed to pick up really well from it - so, again I don't think anyone noticed!

mezzo_soprano

My production again:

Valjean: (messing up his line) I'm an old republican soldier.

Director: WHAT ARE THEY? DEMOCRATS?????

pixiedust

The ones from my production aren't as great as the musical (everything is better when sung) and Mezzo already said the best ones, but these are a few of my favorites:

The first night that we rehearsed with sound effects, we were doing the scene where Jean lets Javert go free. Jean fired his gun in the air. Instead of a gun shot, the sound of a cannon firing came over the sound system.

This one isn't really a blooper but, during one of the very first rehersals we were going to run the factory scene, but our director hadn't told the chorus to be there and one of the girls who gets fantine fired was sick. So the few people who were there for other scenes had to go be chorus, and Javert was girl #3 (whose voice got higher pitched and changed accents with every line) Valjean was a factory girl who decided to scream swine flu every time that Fantine coughed. I nearly died laughing.

The night of a show the revolve broke during a scene where marius's apartment is set up on one side and the Thenardier's on the other. Marius was supposed to sit and wait for the revolve to turn around. Our stage manager was in the wings jumping up and down and mouthing "GET OFF!" He did and then the crew had to go out with all the lights on and turn everything around by hand.

Lauraa

Eppie-Sue has already posted the basket thing on in the cast change thread but in the scene after Valjean has stolen the silver from the Bishop, they must have thrown Simon Bowman on the floor too hard or something cos he when I next looked at him, he had almost skidded off the stage (he was caught by two of the blocks at the end of the stage) and his head was hanging over the orchestra pit. The conductor was looked like he was laughing at that for a while

Eppie-Sue

I'VE GOT ANOTHER BLOOPER. I thought it was funny xD In the caf� scene, at "Marius, you're LATE" Simon Shorten managed to very audibly knock his (obviously empty) glass over. He looked at it a bit bemused, and Jonathan Williams first laughed but then came rushing over, panicking, grabbing the leaflets on the table, "rescuing" them from getting totally "drenched", shaking them a bit so the "wine" would come off and Simon put the glass up and helped him, being watched by a very amused Greg Castiglioni.
Oh I love when stuff like that happens.

Madeleine

Eppie-Sue

Epilogue.
Emily Bull:
"Papa, Papa, I do not understand!
Are you all right? They said you'd gone away!"

Simon Bowman:
"Cosette, my child...
...
...*coughs for a bit*
..."

Alistair Brammer:
"... it's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool..."

And Bowman missed another line... can't remember

flying_pigs

That's a lot to miss out! Epic fail Mr Bowman!

l'ivrogne transfigur�

For a veteran, who seems to have been cast as a 'safe option', Bowman sure does make a LOT of mistakes Wink

Quique

I want to see this travesty for myself. XD Partly because the fanboy in me (I adore his Chris to pieces) can't believe it and partly because it's so outlandish it might be a riot. I kinda feel sorry for the dude tho. =(

Elbow

The other day Bowman managed to throw a candle stick across the stage. That was awkward.

Quique

Omg, how did he manage to do that? Laughing

Elbow

Before "Fliiiiiiight" there was a slight upset with his bag and when he took his bag, he sort of managed to fling one of the candle sticks that was on the table halfway across the stage, so when poor Gavin came back to give Bowman the candle sticks, there was only one on the table.

Oh well, at least he didn't break any bones this time. Hur.

riverdawn

Hey, at least it wasn't one of the *lit* candlesticks from the Epilogue. Smile

Eppie-Sue

Hans Peter Janssens screwed up his arrival on the barricade today. He was... well, he was a bit too early. It went down like:
"HE'S BACK!"
HPJ!Javert, about five bars too early:
"Listen my friends I have done as I said...
...
I have been to their lines. I have counted each man.
I will tell... what I can..."
...
and then an orchestra solo for about... three bars more than normally until the "better we warned..." He pulled it off nicely.

riverdawn

Apparently, DavidJolras was in quite a pessimistic mood about the success of his little revolution in today's matinee... because it was:

"BLLLACCK, a world about to dawn!"
(and then, of course, he had no choice but to go on into "Black, the night that ends at last", so it wasn't so much red-black red-black as red-black-black-black).

Luckily managed to swallow gigantic giggle, as was sitting in BB and that would have been sad and embarrassing.

l'ivrogne transfigur�

Eppie-Sue

That's what happens when that guy is off for a week or more. *nods solemnly*

And it reminds me very much of October, when "BLAAAACK!" *points at red flag* happened.

riverdawn

Oh, Look what I found. Very Happy

(Note: the relevant part is around 1:20)

Eppie-Sue

Oh, bless.

l'ivrogne transfigur�

Fantine

That is terrible, haha Laughing

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