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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Oooh I remeber another,We were doing a production of 'Return to the forbidden Planet." Now this was at the point just before the interval where a giant space monster attacks the ship and six foot tentacles have just burst through the portals on our space ship.
At this point me and some others were meant to shooting the giant tentacles with our space guns. Of course we didn't have space guns, so used childrens toy guns which make various odd sounds when fired.
So, all is going well. I'm blasting the space monter and decide to pull once more on the trigger. Cue blackout. Cast Freeze and it should be the end of the first act, except my gun is still finishing off its annoying noise of 'phernnnnnn peu peu peu, kershhhhh' whilst flashing madly in the dark.
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Fluffy elephants, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 14:17,
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