Mistakes in shows

My favourite mistake I've noticed was in Fantastic Mr Fox when 2 words were swapped giving "stealing from the needy to give to the greedy". Perhaps Mr Fox isn't the saint we think he is!

I'll probably remember more from the depths of my usher-brain later. But from this summer...

Angels in America and Andrew Garfield did not have a good day props-wise...Firstly the 'flames' on the book didn't work and he was left screaming like a madman at essentially a very sorry looking puff of smoke. Then his 'spray bottle' didn't work to spray the 'Herald' and Russell Tovey tried very hard not to laugh. Garfield styled it out with a couple of added 'f***s' and eventually got it working. Finally, in the 'f*** you I'm a Prophet' scene, his sunglasses flew out of his hand, narrowly missing clocking James on the head. He styled it out perfectly, as Jame/Louis tried to 'help' pick them up he held up a hand in a 'don't you dare help me' motion and flouned around to retrieve them.

I didn't personally witness it but the time a dancer/prostitute clocked Marti Pellow in the nose and broke it (rendering him off for the rest of the stop) has gone down in WMC history. As has the day it didn't rain in Singin' in the Rain.

Last nights first preview of "The Woman in White" - Caroline Maitland as Marian going round with her dress undone all up the back showing off her undies.

Jersey Boys.. Bob Gaudio explaining the differences between fans of the UK music that was taking over the US and their fans, forgot his lines. Trying to remember the names of thr groups he came up with institutionalized people.
He still sometimes mentions it.

I notice the Les Mis ones I go to.

On the 1st day of the new cast this year well one of the cast forgot a whole chuck of a solo bit in a song. The sound effects for gunshots all went off too early and the cast has to improv as if they where tryig to duck and hide. It was pretty funny.

One time they got a costume wrong for the 2nd Cover Factory Foreman (Oli Brenin) so he had to enter that scene in his general factory wirker attire. In all fairness I went SD that day and the first thing I got ask was "Did you see the costume mistake?". But apparently it rarely happens.

A few weeks ago they had a show stop just after JVJ saves Marius and went down the trap door but it got stuck and they had to stop the show to fix it.

In Master of the House one of the actors playing customers (Danny) near the end of the song throws his hat in the air. That day it fell down and hit Jacqui (Mme Thenardier) in the face.

Last week again during MotH at the table of the right hand side of the stage you have four sitting. Danny who is meant to (or at least has been) catching a cork that Steve (Thenardier) throws in his hat. Didn't and it hit John (the one that sits next to him) in the face.

In the same scene last year cast but when Danny was a swing and he was covering and Oli (swing was covering). They do a bit of arm wrestle so Thenardier can steal the money out the back pocket. Oli & Danny for got to do this and Oli put his hand up to his face as David (Last Yrs Thenardier) was taking the money. Like the thing you do when you hope no one saw you 😂😂😂😂

The most noticeable mistake I’ve seen (other than the odd glass being knocked over and ‘wine’ needing to be mopped up) was an actress in The Importance of Being Earnest completely drying mid-monologue - it looked like it had happened before, as her scene partner very smoothly fed her the lines as if it was part of the scene.

Don't know if its a misake per se, but went to see Cool Rider twice in one day, and Aaron Sidwell was losing his voice. The direvtor told us at the start of the performance he was losing his voice, but will go on anyway as it was the second to last day and there was no understudies. It was obvious his voice wasn't at his best but he powered through. Come evening show, it was completely gone, so the MD sang his lines offstage, and Aaron would just do the motions, not even open his mouth. I cannot even explain how funny it was. Especially because the cast knew how much of messy-fabulousness was going on, it was even funnier. It was the most hilarious thing I had seen up until that point, and still is one of the funniest nights ive ever had in the theatre.

A lot of technical malfunctions over the years, some resulting in show stops... all temporary thankfully, though one took nearly an hour! One that comes to mind was the absence of the wardrobe in the Nessarose/Elphaba scene in Wicked. No wardrobe = no Elphaba, so they had to stop and reboot!

As a repeat-viewer, I've also witnessed a fair few line fluffs, but am always impressed by actors' ability to think on their feet and clamber out of their self-excavated hole so I'll spare their blushes (nothing to do with my appalling memory, no sir, not at all).

Saw something 3/4 years ago at the National in the Lytterton, but cannot remember the play.

The prop operator lowered a prop piece too early from the fly, it came before the stage scenery had a chance to clear, the prop hit the stage scenery and begun to break up, the actors broke out of character and run to the rings, the safety curtain came in very quickly, with a short delay the proceeded as nothing happened.

It doesn’t happen v often but I love a good breakdown. I love the girl with the headphones coming on, going off, looking up. Love it.

Oh wow, so you were at the infamous night at Groundhog Day!