Lisa
Member
This is my virgin post ^^. I haven't been a newbie anywhere for a while, so flame me to death if this is the wrong place to post this. God knows I deserve it. Anyway, I bet we all have bad theatre experiences - this is my worst, off the top of my head.
9th grade, during our production of Brigadoon - the school I was attending at that time didn't actually have a theatre, so we routinely had to build one [Five times a year, or so]. For this show, we wanted a floor revolve. We got one, but we didn't have enough space below the stage for hamsters. ^^ Instead, uring scene changes, two kids would run out, unlach the poorly made latches, run their side 180 degrees, and latch it back in.
I don't know how many of you are intimately familiar with Brigadoon, but for those of you who aren't, there's this one part in the show where the entire cast gets onstage to dance. Since it's Scottish, it's rather wild dancing, bouncing around, floor pounding. You can see where this is going. Apparently one of our techs had forgotten to latch one side of the revolve in. The other one breaks, the revolve is swinging all over, the Prop mistress and I jump on in a futile attempt to stabilize it, the dancers are falling over. The song finally ends, thankfully it's intermission. ^^
We got it to a semblance of fixed to get through the rest of the show. Break a leg in the most basic sense, neh?
Lisa
9th grade, during our production of Brigadoon - the school I was attending at that time didn't actually have a theatre, so we routinely had to build one [Five times a year, or so]. For this show, we wanted a floor revolve. We got one, but we didn't have enough space below the stage for hamsters. ^^ Instead, uring scene changes, two kids would run out, unlach the poorly made latches, run their side 180 degrees, and latch it back in.
I don't know how many of you are intimately familiar with Brigadoon, but for those of you who aren't, there's this one part in the show where the entire cast gets onstage to dance. Since it's Scottish, it's rather wild dancing, bouncing around, floor pounding. You can see where this is going. Apparently one of our techs had forgotten to latch one side of the revolve in. The other one breaks, the revolve is swinging all over, the Prop mistress and I jump on in a futile attempt to stabilize it, the dancers are falling over. The song finally ends, thankfully it's intermission. ^^
We got it to a semblance of fixed to get through the rest of the show. Break a leg in the most basic sense, neh?
Lisa