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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Being a mildly thespy musician, I have a few of theseTwo of the most notable ones happened in the same play.
I'd managed to land the role of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate factory in the last year of primary school. Everything was fine in the rehersals. However, When it came to the actual performance I fell off the fucking stage. And it really hurt.
I managed to resurrect it, somehow, only to make a rather unusual Freudian slip for a pre-pubescent. I was supposed to say 'we shall have to hope for the best' following the sad demise of Augustus Gloop (ironically played by a very thin person with a cushion down their jumper), or somesuch, but I replaced the word 'best' with the much more titillating idea of 'breast'. Not everyone was impressed with an eleven year old Willy Wonka revealing his love of lady lumps to the whole school.
(, Sun 4 Dec 2005, 23:24, Reply)
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