There's got to be some of you who were/are theater kids in school. What was the most memorable thing to happen during a performance or rehearsal?

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In primary school (7yrs old), we were doing the Nativity. I was a bit pissed that I was the first inn-keeper and not Joseph. When that smug prick Declan (playing Joseph) loudly ask: Do you have a room for me and my wife? Instead of the line 'No', that I was supposed to give, I responded with: YES! Come on in, I was just making supper, do you like lamb?' Nobody knew what to do. From the audience I could hear my auntie laughing, and I swear I heard my mother call me a 'little gobshite'. After an age, a teacher came on with a tea towel on her head and said, 'Hello, I am the inn-keeper's wife. I am sorry but we just rented the last room. Please try somewhere else.' I got in trouble with the nuns but it was worth it!

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    #2

    During rehearsal for Newsies, we were doing King of New York and I fell off the table I was dancing on. Nearly happened but played it off.

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    #3

    At one of my friends plays the smoke machine flooded the stage with chemicals and during a totally random and mundane part of the play there were tears rolling down the faces of all those poor actors

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    #4

    Probably when the computer that was hooked up to the sound system got a spam full of notifications during a performance and the noise that Windows makes was being spammed that the whole audience could hear it. Us backstage were dying of laughter and embarrassment

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    #5

    Well my friends shoe flew off and everyone was shaming her because it was embarrassing

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    Organized Chaos
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No shame here! Did it go into the audience? Also, what were they doing so crazily to cause it to fall off?

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    #6

    I think by theatre you mean cinema? Nothing I can remember. Once at the theatre, (the one with stage and curtain), a member of the audience passed out and paramedics turned up. The problem was I wasn’t sure whether it wasn’t part of the play as the play was "the play that goes wrong"…! It wasn’t part of the play, that poor lady was taken away on a stretcher.

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    bElLa sTairZz
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    usually when someone says theatre they mean the one with the stage and curtain