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we did rehearsal but never a dress rehearsal... i was female lead and my male lead ended up loosing his belt halfway off stage and then tried to fix it in front of the audience 💀
Rehearsal or not this was done for the RU-vid video, they would always allow the actors to continue if there was a wardrobe malfunction. It's excellent practice to push your actors to stay in character despite distractions. So just saying they never would have been stopped except to film it for this exact interaction
I did a two-man show with a lot of quick changes (we each played eleven characters) and despite me inquiring early on about velcro or breakaways, each costume was multi-layers of regular clothing. My default costume under everything was a pair of tights and bike shorts, but they decided to dress one of my female characters in very similar Capri pants. In a performance, I hit the wings and my three dressers were standing there with armloads of my next costume. I hooked my thumbs in what I thought was just the Capris, but accidentally got bike shorts too, and when they came down, they took everything else with them. I had just gone full commando in front of three women. One spun 180 degrees in place, the other two chuckled at her and the first thing I could think to say was a quote from The Young Ones: "It was bound to happen sooner or later." The mortified one got me back, though. At a karaoke party a year or two later, when I entered the kitchen where folks were playing cards, she sees me and loudly tells her new boyfriend, "I've seen him naked." Before I can even think of a retort, the buddy of mine dealing cards interjects, "Get used to her saying that!" I did improv comedy for twenty years, and that's still one of the fastest and funniest remarks I've ever heard.
One dress rehearsal my dress got caught when I was quick changing. It was halfway off and we had to break the hook (from the hook and eye) which was stuck in my costume underneath to get it off me.
I just remember in school that our dress rehearsals were for the kids in school to watch us perform. And this varied of course. I recall doing dress rehearsals only for kindergarteners and 1st graders and sometimes it was for all the grades from Pre-K all the way to 6th grade since all those grades were taught in the same building.
my friend’s overalls ripped during a pantomime some point during the final song (actual show) and nobody realised until the walk down when she did her final bow💀
Can someone please tell me the title of this ballet is? I have a childhood memory where it's my very first ballet show but I didnt know the title of it, and this looks so much like the ballet I watched when I was a wee lass
I just had an amazing idea for a play. An extremely serious thriller... but there are no dress rehearsals. They play it ear, fix anything that needs to be fixed during the actual play and then just go back to being very serious once the problem is fixed and never address the breaks ever again.
Horrible. There's a reason actors are taught "the show must go on." You're not supposed to break character or flow while you deal with issues like these.
Dress rehearsals give me war flashbacks actually. Back in high school we had a school trip to go watch a dress rehearsal of Peer Gynt, we had to pay. The following day the principal came offering a free school trip to a career fair at a local university. I was absurdly paranoid over college and my future as a whole, so I sadly took the career fair. When we arrived at the fair, it was a scam. They had a representative at the college gates telling us they changed the location to a local bar that was emptied out, and when we went to the new location the career fair was actually a guy selling us a course in a shady platform. The pamphlet said there would be guest RU-vidrs who were nowhere to be seen, and video editing workshops that didn’t happen, I had to swim through a crowd of angry mothers swarming the scammer. On Monday, half the class wouldn’t shut up about how amazing Peer Gynt was. FML.
I saw a Salsa performance once where the woman had a beaded skirt. She was kicking her heels up so high she caught a loop of beads and kicked her skirt down 😮. To her credit she kept dancing and pulled her skirt back up while she shimmied. That kids is another example of why you do a dress rehearsal.
In high school we did a version of Agatha Christie's Seven Little Sailors (that's what we called it, og title includes racial word) and we'd do the dress rehearsal in front of the school. Our teacher said to back up the scene, so some people literally walked in reverse. Other fun things that occured included my character's knitting getting caught on a jacket button and being dragged offstage to then be tossed back on, and another character in the process of dying dropped their glass and it shattered where they fell, and they had to be lifted by others so they wouldn't get cut, and we had to sweep between scenes. And on one performance night, the final scene where the murderer was going to kill, the rope for strangling wasn't on stage so it was thrown to the actor and it changed from a dramatic scene to a comedic one.
