On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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Haven't done that in a while.My own pissings about on stage aren't really notable, aside from the one time I managed to forget to carry any props out for the next scene.
"Shit, someone's stolen my furniture!" covered that.
On the same night as that, however, a couple of other people were putting on a show of "Teachers."
Now, they were shit. But the show itself was fucking great. Why?
Because part of the backdrop, where the 'actors' were getting changed, was a white sheet. With a light behind it.
As two of them got changed, one was on stage soloing some dialogue. Behind him, there was two full minutes of one of his friends standing straight upright, with his belt undone.
Silhouetted. His belt stuck out quite far forwards. Matters weren't helped when the other friend bent over facing away from him to pick something up.
The poor sod on stage couldn't understand why the audience were wetting themselves laughing.
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gone, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 15:15,
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