loads, coz i'm still sort of doing it
earliest cock-up: 6 or 7yrs, a sugar plum fairy. I HATED girly things back then, so decided to deliberately sabotage my section by suddenly stopping mid-dance and creating a domino effect with the other little girls (and boy, poor sod).

next cock-up: 8 yrs, being cast as a valkerie. I was the smallest, skinniest little thing. The irony was not lost on the audiences, who laughed every time I was on.

then: 16yrs old, backstage. Watching slowly over two months as the popular pretty girl cast in the main lead began getting fatter. Quite how is beyond me, but she went size 8 to 16 in 8 weeks. My friend was playing her husband and a scene involved wheeling her out in a wheelbarrow. He said it was appropriate but didn't help - she weighed a ton. Also, that was the play in which someone's kid in the audience was heard to ask "mummy, what's a prostitute?". It was a bad choice of play.

These days, I work in event production. I can't possibly list the things that have happened to me or the stuff I've done/hidden from the clients. I will say these though:
1. If you barbeque a sound deck after it's been drenched, it will work. Before exploding, obviously.
2. Allowing a speaker to find the on/off switch on a mic is out of the question. Oh, how I do enjoy running up on stage and turning mics on.
3. Cans are sanity-protectors.
4. Celebrities - the ones who look attractive on tv are usually orange, wearing too much make-up and really quite old. The ones you think will be a pain in the arse usually are lovely and generally better looking.
5. Fire is perfectly acceptable, as long as no-one knows. As is flooding. Falling stuff is usually a problem.

Special mention - my brother's debut was playing a wall. no, really.
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 13:25, Reply)