jyenish
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In my eight years in the theater more than one hilarious situation has arisen. Whether it be amusing people, sleep deprivation, or just excellent timing I am sure everyone has their share of favorite moments of random humor in the theater.
My favorite just off the wall moment happened during the show "Two Room." The show in itself is not funny. In fact it is quite depressing. I think that's one of the reasons this moment stuck with me, it was one of a few funny things that happen during the course of rehearsals.
For the show we utilized a multi-media approach. That being said we had several scrims hanging around and on the stage. They were being used for projection screens. To strech the scrims we used steel frames and adhered the scrim with 3M spray adhesive. Well for the spraying work we had elevated on buckets to save our knees (there were a lot of scrims). During one of the days during rehearsals the only people in the shop were a single actor from the show, the TD (who happens to be the theater chair) and myself (SM and at that time jr. LD... Way too much work for one person). We took a break and were just lounging on the stage and the TD sits on one of the buckets (harmless enough). So after 10 minutes or so of screwing around we decide its time to get back to work. The TD stands up and the bucket which had been used to elevate the scrims for spraying with adhesive, is sticking straight off the TD's butt. The best part is that the bucket stayed like that for 5 minutes or so.
It may be juevinile, but the actor and myself must have laughed for about 20 minutes. I could barely breath it was so funny.
So that is one of my favorite random pieces of humor in the theater. It may not be spectacular, but if you knew the TD, it is very indicitve of his personality.
Please, I welcome and invite you to post your anecdotes of random humor.
My favorite just off the wall moment happened during the show "Two Room." The show in itself is not funny. In fact it is quite depressing. I think that's one of the reasons this moment stuck with me, it was one of a few funny things that happen during the course of rehearsals.
For the show we utilized a multi-media approach. That being said we had several scrims hanging around and on the stage. They were being used for projection screens. To strech the scrims we used steel frames and adhered the scrim with 3M spray adhesive. Well for the spraying work we had elevated on buckets to save our knees (there were a lot of scrims). During one of the days during rehearsals the only people in the shop were a single actor from the show, the TD (who happens to be the theater chair) and myself (SM and at that time jr. LD... Way too much work for one person). We took a break and were just lounging on the stage and the TD sits on one of the buckets (harmless enough). So after 10 minutes or so of screwing around we decide its time to get back to work. The TD stands up and the bucket which had been used to elevate the scrims for spraying with adhesive, is sticking straight off the TD's butt. The best part is that the bucket stayed like that for 5 minutes or so.
It may be juevinile, but the actor and myself must have laughed for about 20 minutes. I could barely breath it was so funny.
So that is one of my favorite random pieces of humor in the theater. It may not be spectacular, but if you knew the TD, it is very indicitve of his personality.
Please, I welcome and invite you to post your anecdotes of random humor.