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.
Tell us your stories of life on the stage.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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Bit of a Thespian me! Yes I love that Hairy Clam!!It was the last technical rehersal before our opening night. The play way Cabaret I was playing Sally Bowles the Lead Female. We were pulling a late one to get the final lighting, pyro cues etc so the director decides that he will feed us all and ordered Pizza too keep us all going. Cue me waking up at 3.00am with the worst belly cramps I have ever had basically I was like a double ended fountain all night, my bedroom lookerd like something from a 70's horror film and the smell was enough to make a fly turn up his nose!!
Now I know that they say that the show must go on but when you are in the middle of singing a heart felt song and you let a wet one go in your tight black pants the moment can be a little lost!! I can never look at liza minelli in the same way again!
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