Stage Mistakes | Thomas Sanders 

"Choreographed falling" "We're all going to die now!"

WAIT. YOU PLAYED JD. I AM CRYING HEATHERS IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITES OMG CAN YOY BE ANY MORE ATTRACTIVE?

I can just imagine Thomas as JD "Veronica I want to blow up the school...TOOO help high school end and have us have a happy ending! Ahahahaha SCHOOL BOMBINGS!!!"

Poor thomas .... It must be so hard to act straight(dead girl walking)

Now that I know you were in Heathers, all I need in life is you and Jon Cozart singing Blue.

This one time I was in the Addams family and when it was in the middle of Wednesday's song "pulled" there is suppose to be a bird tweeting in the background. Well....the sound guy clearly messed up because opening night instead of a bird tweeting it was dinosaurs from Jurassic park roaring 😂😂😂😂

I was in Wizard of Oz in the 7th grade, and back then I was pretty tubby. So, of course, I got the role of the Cowardly Lion. I was in basically an all fleece suit. It was May. In Louisiana. Surely, I worked up quite a sweat. I was sweating so much and I was so hot that I fainted during the scene where the lion, scarecrow, and tin man get captured and taken to the witches castle. Apparently I fainted at the perfect time because the audience started CACKLING at me. Everybody, including those on stage, thought I was doing an improv so nobody thought much of it. I came to in a matter of 15 seconds, and as I opened my eyes I saw the audience laughing their heads off. I was so delirious that I completely broke character and started yelling "WAS ANYBODY GOING TO HELP ME!!??!?" The audience found this hilarious, and once again everybody thought I was doing improv. I got back in to charachter and saved the scene by screaming "DOES ANY BODY KNOW WHERE THE LITTLE LIONS ROOM IS LOCATED???" And that is the story of the time that I fainted on stage and everybody laughed.

I'n Mary Popins during "Let's got fly a kite" the wire to keep the kite flying broke and everyone had to continually throw the kite into the air

"When Things Went Wrong" If I ever made an autobiography, that would be the title

I was in Peter Pan and I had the role of Captain Hook. We had just finished the sword fight between me and Peter. As I staged the fall I was supposed to do when I lost my wig had fell of and all you could see was the wig cap. No one knew what to do so Smee adlibs by saying " He's been bald the entire time! " and dramatically gasps so everyone else on stage gasps too. Then I hurriedly put the wig back on in character and the scene continued. It was HILARIOUS!

He played JD yet he is gay. I HAVE SEEN DEAD GIRL WALKING M8. OH MY GOSH THOMAS. DID YOU ACTUALLY-WOW OK. WELL THEN. You learn something new everyday

I played Mulan (in Mulan) and for those who don't know, during the "exposure" scene my hair falls out of my helmet. At the time, my hair went all the way down to my butt, so when I wasn't wearing a helmet, I wore a bandana-type thing. It was really hard to get into and I literally needed two other people to help me put it on, so since the hair fell out mid-scene I took off the bandana and put my hair inside the helmet. However, I'd forgotten the big dance number that came before the hair scene, so I had to run to the other side of the stage (around the back) and get someone to help me. Long story short, I came onstage 7 minutes late, on the wrong side, and had no idea what improv they did for me and I just said "Sorry!" Then burst into song. Yup. I accidentally wore the wrong outfit

I'm loving all of the embarrassing theatrical moments you guys are sharing! Looks like I'm not alone!! Haha XD

THE IDEA OF THOMAS PLAYING JD AND DOING DEAD GIRL WALKING AAAAAHHH MY FEELS

I played little anna in frozen in elementary, and my first line was "Elsa, elsa!" and I accidentally called *her* Anna, and I freaked out and just decided to call her Anna for the rest of act one like an idiot.

Thomas please do a cover of "meant to be yours" from the heathers! 😄

in a school production of 'the wizard of oz' i was the lion. and in my first scene where i met up with dorothy and the two others i had to say "i'll fight you with my eyes closed!" and "i'll fight you on one leg!" whilst hopping in one leg i... slipped and fell over on to my stomach. it hurt like hell but i carried it on by saying "i'll even fight you from down here! put 'em up!" and continued as best as i could even though was slightly winded for the rest of that scene...ouch.

I was Jesus in Godspell and I said "When I was thirsty, you gave me food, when I was hungry, you gave me drink."

The drama teacher in my old school used to act and direct professionally and he told us stories in the beginning of the year to show that things can go wrong, and that's completely okay (bless him), and this one story was just hilarious. He was doing a Shakespeare play (don't remember which), and y'know those fake blood packs that would be used in plays? Yeah, someone had to wear one of those after a flight, as they would get stabbed. The people who were in charge of them, the pressure was too little every practice. So the director told them that if they didn't make the pressure high enough, they'd be fired. So, it's the night of the first show, the fight just ended, and someone stabs another person in the chest. Blood shoots everywhere, on all the cast, all over the stage, on the first two rows in the audience and somehow it even got backstage. Now my teachers next line (as the guy who got stabs assistant) was "[insert name I don't remember], are you hurt?" and knowing what came next, I'm surprised he kept a straight face. Next the actor that got stabbed says "It is but a wound." The audience bursts out laughing. Everyones laughing, but the three people onstage, including my teacher, managed to keep a straight face for the whole scene. It was an inside joke for that class the rest of the year, whenever something stupid would happen, like for example, someone opened a door and it slammed into someone else's face. Another person asked him [insert name], are you hurt?" and he replied "It is but a wound". He was such a good drama teacher, sadly I moved to a new school this year and now I don't have him as a teacher :(

I went to my friend's production of Into The Woods not too long ago and it was during the scene where Rapunzel has her two children with her in the tower and the witch comes onto the stage. The thing was that they only found one out of the two baby dolls. The girl who played Jack, being the genius that she is, told Rapunzel to use her cow prop as the other baby. That's not where this ends. So the witch and Rapunzel are on top of this huge platform during the same scene. The witch swings her arms around and accidentally slaps the actual baby doll out of Rapunzel's hands so the baby falls out of the tower and Rapunzel is left standing there holding a cow. Rapunzel had this shocked look on her face and was trying not to laugh but the witch just carried on like it was nothing and it was great. Best production of Into The Woods ever.

I WANT A COVER OF MEANT TO BE YOURS FROM HEATHERS!! I WANT TO HEAR THOMAS ACTING LIKE A PSYCHOPATH! :D

As a stage manager, i'm hyperventilating internally at everything

heathers. wonder what the song is? dead girl walking.

The show was little Mermaid. I played flotsam. I had a tight blue jumpsuit and it had led lights in it. During my death scene, we had flashing lights. Then it went dark. I tried to get off stage quickly to go around to stage left for bows. I tripped one of Ursula' s tentacles. I didn't see the stairs I face planted and slid down the steps over on stage right. I had sprained my ankle and my friend who played prince Eric had to carry ne around to stage left. Then, my friend who played flounder, (bless het heart, she is amazing) carried me onstage for bows. For the rest of the run of the show, I was carried backstage and all around the theatre. My Jetsam Carried me on for our scenes. I am so clumsy I sometimes forget how to do that walking thing.

Thomas playing JD and doing the dead girl walking scene is something that I don't know if I want to see or not

Guys can we just images JD without any pants for the Heathers death scene

I was in a production of Peter Pan and the actor playing Hook's hat fell off mid-dance routine and we needed it on his head for a joke that was coming later in that scene so I did the slickest hat pass to him you've ever seen. Literally my proudest moment in Musical Theatre is passing Captain Hook's hat back to him.

thE FACT THAT THOMAS PLAYED JD IN HEATHERS AND WE DON'T HAVE A VIDEO OF DEAD GIRL WALKING KILLS ME

I was doing a pantomime of Peter Pan and I played a pirate. My only line was 'Oh well, I haven't had a bath in ages!' and then I jump into the 'sea' (off-stage). Since it was my only line, naturally I learned it off by heart immediately. However, just before having arrived at school to perform it on the final night, I was listening to Heathers and got the lyric 'you make my balls so blue'. It made me laugh soooo much, I kept remembering it throughout the night and kept randomly laughing. Just as my line came around near the end, I remembered 'You make my balls so bluuuue" and began laughing hysterically. The parents began laughing too, thinking I was just being like 'no way am I jumping in the sea, mate'. We all improvised and Peter Pan shouted "Sea. Now." and I replied "Alright, alright, I'm going!" and I very casually hopped off the stage (whereas the others had dramatically leapt off). The parents were laughing for absolutely AGES.

i was Heather Chandler in Heathers and during Candy Store, as we're doing the "kicking nerds in the nose" ONE OF THE OTHER HEATHERS ACCIDENTALLY KICKED ME IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD, KNOCKING ME OVER AND TOTALLY DISORIENTING ME IN THE MODDLE OF THE SONG OMG it was so awkward but the audience just laughed it off and we continued

I started acting when I was 7 so I have LOTS of embarrassing stage stories also! 😂 last year I played Belle in my community's theater production of "Beauty and the Beast" its a circle stage with audience all around, the stage is in the middle. My cue was to walk off while the "villagers" were singing and come down the stares during "oh isn't this amazing..." and I missed the cue so I had to run down the stairs and I fell and villagers just stepped over me while I laid there mortified. 😂😂😂

Honestly everyone in here who even tried out for a play or musical (including Thomas) I applaud you because a couple months ago we had a musical at my school and I didn’t even audition because I was to scared so all of you deserve applause 👏👏👏

I came from the Heathers, omg Dead Girl Walking had me doooonnneee

"Kinda hot and heavy" Oh honey XD kinda...?

I died during the JD story omfg "Almost... I've got it..."

Storytime... I was playing John in Peter Pan, and there was this one scene early on where Peter sprinkled me with the pixie dust so I could start to fly. Wendy, Michael, and I were all supposed to take turns spinning around and saying "Look at me!" Lo and behold, on the day that my ENTIRE CLASS (including my teacher!) came to see the performance, I tripped over my prop "bed" (a couple wooden blocks with a blanket on top) that was resting behind me and came tumbling down right after my "Look at me!" line. I was absolutely not prepared, and Peter tried to save it by saying, "You know, you have to be careful when flying." It almost worked, but then Peter laughed out loud, and so did Wendy, and then I did, too... we all ended up ending the scene a page early because we had to exit, we were all laughing so hard. Afterwards, our assistant stage manager told us that the director had literally fallen on the ground laughing, so... it was mortifying, but hilarious. Another thing that happened that same show was that during the Peter and Captain Hook fight scene, PETER'S SWORD BROKE. No one knew what to do, especially because we were so short on sword props that I had to fight with my top hat. ONE LAST STORY! We found out in the middle of a show that the word "Sportsnet" could be heard very clearly in the middle of one of the INSTRUMENTAL tracks we were using, after a scene went on for a bit too long and we played the track a bit longer than usual. Suffice it to say, we all had a good laugh about that in the greenroom afterwards.

Now I really wanna see the Thomas sanders J.D..

I'll tell you my stage mistakes. I was on stage.

A couple of months ago I was doing panto with a small community theatre, the panto was Aladdin. Near the end of the first act, Aladdin is shoved into a cave by the villain. The cave we had was one that also turned into a laundry set, the back flipped up or down to reveal a cave if needed. Beforehand there was trouble trying to turn the laundrette into a cave. This meant when Aladdin was pushed into the cave the back flipped down and the entire audience could see him yelling, he recovered quite smoothly but the bad thing - we were filming that performance. So that huge blip was now on the DVD that we were selling, but it made the show funnier so there's a plus side

The show was Bye Bye Birdie, and I have two stories about this one. #1. I was one of the members of the pit orchestra at the time, sitting with my back up against the stage. So during the song "One Last Kiss", Conrad is singing and dancing right behind my head. Now, we were short a few musicians through the show and I'm the only violinist there, playing over an entire brass band. I'm trying to listen and focus on the music and the conductor and play loud enough to be heard. Well, Conrad skips the last verse and the conductor freezes, so the entire band freezes, except me, who is playing more by sound than sight. I just keep playing until the conductor finds where we're at and gets everyone back on track. But that was a terrifying moment. #2. Same show, but actually this was Albert. And he's walking and talking and walking and talking and FLASH! Despite being told "no flash photography", someone takes a picture with their fancy camera, the flash goes off, and Albert falls into the pit, breaks his leg on a tuba, and gets a concussion. That was an interesting show, and I can't quite remember how we finished it--I think we had his double (we double casted the show) finish up for him. We took a second intermission that day, and he turned out to be fine. Still terrifying to watch a guy come tumbling down next to your head. Yeah, we're probably not doing Birdie again anytime soon.

I played the police officer in Annie, the one who tells Annie to call Sandy to prove the dog is hers. During one of the performances, instead of walking over to Annie, the dog walked halfway, turned around, and just walked off stage. I had like two more lines but I was laughing so hard I just ran offstage to get the dog, and the entire audience applauded me 😂😂😂

I was once working costumes and set prep for my high school production of," You Can't Take it With You." And we lost one of the props under the table so I went to get and the lights turn on as I'm still on the stage. Thankfully, the actor that was playing Grandpa improved and said, " Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" And I improved that I was a drunk that stumbled into the house and said, " I thought I was my house, sorry old man." And went out drunkenly. Our stage manager was dying of laughter and everyone thought it was the funniest thing😂 By the way, love your videos, your so inspirational. Every time you are encouraging, talking about something you're passionate about, or even just laughing, your happiness is contagious. It's full of sunshine and there are not too many people with the same outlook as you. It's rare, but it's a delightful thing. Thanks for being you Thomas Sanders☺️❤️

Thomas :*rises up* I HAVE RETURNED Me: *pauses*.....Roman....?

THE WORST IS WHEN YOUR MIC MALFUNCTIONS AND REFUSES TO TURN ON SO THE AUDIENCE CAN'T HEAR YOUR SOLO, YA KNOW. STILL SAD ABOUT THAT XD

One time I was lumiere in Beauty and the Beast and I left my right candle back stage so I just had my bare hand pretending to be a candle. 😂

Omg I'd give anything to see him play JD

Stage story: So this summer I was Leia in a Shakespearean adaptation of The Empire Strikes back, and there was a line where I had to ask where Han would be going, and Lando was supposed to mention that Vader would be taking him and that lead to my line that mentioned that Vader wanted us dead, to which Lando would reply that Vader did not, and so on.... HOWEVER, the guy playing Lando did not remember his line so he simply said “He will take Han” and I blinked and said “Who?” (referring to Vader, so that I could say my line) but the Lando goes “...Han.” and I said, “Lando, thou art stupid, who will take Han?” and he finally remembers and says “Vader” and we were able to continue with the scene, but it was honestly so awkward...

One thing I will always remember from a show I did with my am dram group, we had the last show of our cinderella and EVERYTHING went wrong. The power went out, music wouldn't start, things got dropped and a bed broke! It wa so hilarious and we all just had to try and continue on, we were holding back laughs the whole way through because just when you thought it couldn't get worse, it did. Just. urgh, i miss my group

gosh I love your laugh! :D

The show was Into The Woods, and I was playing Cinderella. My prince some how LOST MY SHOE between leaving the stage and coming back on. So we had to pantomime my "step-sisters" and me trying on the show. It was very funny. Thankfully we found it before the next performance.

So i participated in the school play this year (our school plays take place in an actual theater with a technical crew and everything) and i played like one of these twins. At a given moment we all had to run up the stage in groups and I, of course, had to do it with my twin. So i run up the stage but i tripped over someone's foot and basically faceplanted right on the stage for everyone to see. We covered it though cause the girl who played my other twin said "Oh come on, isn't there one thing you can do right?" as I stood up. Then we just continued the scene and when we got off the stage we literally had to go to another room because we were laughing too much. Then one of the other nights, there's this scene where everybody's celebrating cause something great happened and we all had to yell stuff like "Yes" "Yeah" "Certainly" and stuff. Well, me (as a whovian) yelled "Allons-y". Now, that didn't seem like much of a problem until I realized that everyone else didn't know what to say so i was the only one who yelled something... Yup, traumatic experiences 😂

I was Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and it was an outdoor play, so the wind would blow up the carpet on the stage floor sometimes. Well I was doing the scene where I'm getting annoyed with the nurse because she won't tell me if Romeo has said yes to marrying me yet and I noticed the corner of the carpet had come up. So I decided I was going to angrily stomp over and kick the carpet so that it covered the corner of the stage again. That didn't happen... Instead my foot completely missed and went right over the carpet and I almost slipped, so I just looked stupid as I continued to angrily kick at a carpet and kept missing lol

GUUUYYYYS THOMAS SANDERS SINGING 'MEANT TO BE YOURS' FROM HEATHERS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING IVE EVER LISTENED TO

"I have returned!" Me "I HAVE RETURNED FROM NARNIA :3"

We were doing The Outsiders at my school, and me and a few other girls were the prop movers, well one of the girls was trying to get the fountain for the next scene -keep in mind, our fountain was two flowerpots taped together, not very sturdy- She's getting the flowerpot and trying to hurry because the next scene was approaching, and it slips out of her hands and falls with a really loud bang, the look she had was absolutely priceless because her hands were still in the air like she was holding it, and all the life drained out of her eyes. She thankfully got it up before the next scene but we were all laughing in the dress room afterwards.

“Pants are gone.”

i'm a tech, and we were doing snow white. so you hear snow white and you think apples right? so, the basket of apples was on the set we were moving off. and i guess someone bumped into it because all of a sudden i see a bunch of apples rolling all over the stage :) good times

A funny story of mine is when I was in Peter Pan and during the last scene when Captain Hook runs off and "falls" into the crocodile's mouth, the guy playing Captain Hook walked to the wrong side of the crocodile prop and essentially crushed the crocodile's bottom jaw. Our prop director get to add "dentist" to his list of abilities.

So I was in a production of Alice in Wonderland in sixth grade and I was playing the queen of hearts, but the costume they had ordered was a smidge too small for me. On the opening night of the show, during a scene where I'm meant to be stomping and huffing and over-exaggerating all of my actions, I make the horrible mistake of throwing my arms into the air. Three things happen all at once. First: I hit the girl playing Alice in the face (she handles this wonderfully and perfectly pulls of the surprised/offended face you can only get organically). Second: I trip over the price of skirt that had been ripping to begin with and was touching the floor, skid quite a bit on the stage, and rip the whole piece off (it was part of a recycled costume from last year's play). Thirdly: two arm seams rip at the same time, and you hear a giant PPPRRRRRRRHHHHHBBBTTTTT. It sounds quite a bit like a fart. And a bonus fourth: I feel like my life is collapsing around me in that moment. We laught it off later, but I don't think I've ever been more petrified on stage.

I would sell what's left of my soul to see Thomas as JD

Last year, I was in my school's production of Peter Pan. I was playing one of the pirates and we had this HUGE battle scene with the lost boys where we had to run off stage and run around the cafeteria and fight. After the fight scene we all had to get back up on stage and the way I had to get back up was by sprinting towards the stage and launching myself back onto it. But one show, we had just finished the fight scene, when I was running towards the stage, I noticed that someone had put chairs right where I was supposed to jump on. Sadly, when I noticed, it was too late so I accidentally ran into the chairs, then started climbing up on stage and got stuck there for a good 10 seconds so then I had to run to my spot as fast as I could and then throw myself onto the ground. That show was something else😂😂 I had so many bruises oml😂

I was in the Addams Family and we had this apple that would get split in two by Wednesday's crossbow. It was my friends job to bring the apple on stage but we would always misplace it. On opening night she couldn't find the apple so she went on stage and started to pretend that she had the apple. She was doing a good job of making it seem like there was an apple on stage but someone decided that it would be a good idea to roll the apple on stage making it extremely obvious that we a screwed up the scene.

I soooooo wanna see a clip of Thomas performing Dead Girl Walking. Like... I just can't imagine it but I know I'm gonna love it HAHA

Ok but all I can imagine now is JD trying to get his pants on before Ronnie’s turned around to say “*FINGER GUNS* you were my first”

I was Mrs. White in Clue, and in the first scene I'm in the kitchen bludgeoning the 'roast' with a lead pipe imagining it was Mr. Body's head. Well, I was super into the scene and I at some point hit the dish the roast was on and sent it flying. It landed on the stage so I kicked it, and it went flying off stage just as Mr. Body came in to ask me about the roast, "What are you doing, Mrs. White?"

my stage story: skipped one line, which skipped a whole scene. beginners theatre so no one knew how to ad-lib. 45 minute show turned into 20.

i was in the chorus for Shrek the musical and since we had a rather large chorus for that particular show a small group of us were appointed to control this giant dragon puppet and i was one of the wings, but the tricky part was we all had to move in unison. well our last performance the other people lugging around this giant pink hell spawn didn't move over far enough when going back stage and the crew wasnt paying attention and was rushing to get on stage and this giant princess tower set peice slammed into my head and i think i had a concussion from it bc i spent the rest of the show so dizzy i barely knew what i was doing and the second time the dragon came on stage i was so out of it i forgot to move the wing and pretty much my body i just like followed this 7 foot satan spawn until we went back stage while my friend and boyfriend were both flipping out bc they hit my head so hard and i was flipping out bc i done fucked up on something so simple as moving a wing (but other than that it was such a fun show to do, we called it the memesical and we chanted "shrek is love shrek is life shrek is love shrek is life in the words of the great shrek better out than in i always say" before going on stage and then sang all star while we were striking the set it was just a giant hellscape memesical)

When I did Annie in high school, the real dog we had went up to the orchestra pit and peed on my friend's head 😂

when he said he played JD *whispers* "dead girl walking"

I did Little Shop of Horrors in February and played Seymour. In the song "Now (It's Just The Gas) Orin Scrivello (the dentist) is supposed to sing a certain line in his first verse that rhymes with another line in the first variation of the refrain. After messing up the rhyme, the orchestra stopped, not knowing what to do, and waited for something to happen. The actor playing the dentist simply muttered "help me" and stopped singing. I then looked like an idiot trying to save the song by starting my second verse with no accompaniment, and then getting the orchestra to follow along while singing it a second time. ''Twas a big laugh backstage after act one finished

Wait... what if we don't want to pick ourselves up in life when we fall? What if we just, oh you know, slide on through life really fast?

WHY IS THERE NO FOOTAGE OF THOMAS PLAYING JD!!!! :(

Story time! Part 3.5 So, I was in the jungle book, and I was cast as Baloo! In the first act, I run off stage like a maniac, and I am basically off stage for the rest of the time. When I do come on, I came with my pal Troy, who was cast as Bagera {Sorry about spelling}. I said my line, then Troy completely stuttered, and forgot his line. I said it for him, BUT THEN Hope, who was cast as Sheer Kahn, didn't come on stage. I whispered 'Work with me here' to Troy, and we improvised the rest of that scene, without Hope! Later she told me she was in the bathroom, and didn't hear the cue, but the play was over, and we still did great!

once I was dancing on stage and my little skirt fell off. I kept on dancing

I remember that my local theater did the Cinderella play, and I was Cinderella, so as soon as the smoke started so I could transform into my beautiful blue dress, we set off a FLIPPING FIRE ALARM AND THE FIRE CURTAN DROPPED! I am forever embarrassed, but it was kinda funny too xD

When I was in Charlotte's Web one of the narrators threw up before going onstage but went on anyway, she was amazing

is there a video of thomas sanders being in the dead girl walking scene? It's not for me it's for a friend.

Don't worry. I was doing the Litter Mermaid. I slipped on the fake water and fell on 5 people. This was during kiss the girl. Can you just imagine?

This was my first time being in a musical. At the time, I didn't have enough confidence to be in the cast, so I signed up for back stage. So the play was Lion King Jrs (middle school play) and we had this HUGE chunky rock built. along the side, we had a cloth stables to the wood, so the audience wouldn't see the fan between the board and the stage floor. During the 3rd night, young simba tropes over a loose cloth, making it come undone. The people who push this huge rock (me included) didn't see this. We start pushing the rock....and the cloth gets stuck in the last and middle wheels. The curtains are about to re open any minute...and we can't move the rock. Lucky 2 kids (one was mufasa, and the other was part of the ensemble) were strong enough to help get it in place. The side that the wheels were face was away from the croud, and me being the smallest of the backstage was ellected to untangle the cloth so we can restaple it and and later get it hot glued. I get it undone, and luckly, the curtains close right then.,i jog over and got the staple gun, and restaple it, while some backstage people told the rest of the cast to be mindful of the cloth. During the same,play, but on the first night....some of the rock pushers didn't know about a hidden speaker that was ducktaped to the floor. They ran it over with the giant rock. (to get a visual, it was about 6 feet tall, 7 by 6 feet wide, and weighed about 230 pounds. It was a good workout for the year!)

HOW'D YOU FIND MY ADRESS I THINK YOU TORE MY MATRESS OMG THOMAS IN DEAD GIRL WAKING GIVES ME THOUGHTS

Last year my school did the play The Adventures Of The Fearsome Pirate Frank, and the night of the show, the lead was late. When she got there, we found out she had pink eye, which was why she was late. Since the play was about pirates she just put on an eyepatch and we went on. Another thing that happened was my friend got so nervous she had a mental breakdown backstage. My other friend and I were trying to calm her down since she was about to go on, and it took forever. She calmed down and went on, but it was so nerve racking! It's so funny but terrifying when someone forgets a line, especially in the middle of a monologue. I had to perform quite the long line, and during the scene everyone was supposed to be QUIETLY talking to each other. Let's just say I could barely hear myself. Another part of that play was that my part was for a guy, and I'm a girl. The boy who was cast as my character moved, and so I replaced him. The director asked me if I wanted to be a girl, and I said no since it was already written in that I was a male. My character was one of the crowd favorites, which I am quite proud of! God that's a long comment ...

I fell off the stage during a school performance of Hairspray...

there was a time in my recent theatre school production (they take songs from multiple musicals and put it together in one show) and the first song was a sort of parody of be our guest and all of the school was on stage and it was the first of two performances that day and they'd just finished the first acting bit and opened the curtains and put on the lights but no music played so we all just stood there not knowing what to do, then the wrong music played, and we carried on standing there, then the lights went down and we were still stood there, then the lights went up again and the right music started playing, but then halfway through the music just stopped but we carried on as if it was supposed to happened cause what can i say we must be good theatre students, and finally to end all this at the end there were meant to be pyros but one of the pyros didnt work which was great but from there everything went pretty much fine :) ANOTHER mishap of mine was i was in a number and we were meant to be the ugly stepsisters and so we had to exaggurate everything ALOT then of corse someone put their arms out at smacks me right in the face. i just carried on while my lip and nose were throbbing and acted as if it never happened :D

Ohhhhh boy do I have a story for you guys The play was The Little Mermaid It was Act 3, the final fight between Ursula and Eric I'm playing Ursula So I finish up my line, the cue for Eric's boat and his crew to come on The boat doesn't come After five minutes of evil cackling and trying to fill the stage, the boat comes on Neither Eric or the guy with lines right after Eric, the 'Pilot' are there After another few minutes of me laughing and trying to fill the stage, a random crew member steps up, exclaiming "'Hey you! Get your hands off my girl!"'(a crude version of a line meant for Eric) I end up doing most of the scene with him until the actual Eric comes on, and we do our scene smoothly after that We had a good laugh about it

I would sell my soul to see Thomas play TJ during dead girl walking

WAIT, YOU PLAYED JD? NICE! (I fricking love Heathers)

I was Scar in The Lion King and there was a scene where I was supposed to hand a bone off to Shenzi the hyena and then all of the hyenas start fighting over it and opening night it flew out into the audience and landed right in front of the first row and we could NOT KEEP IT TOGETHER

When I was 13, along with having parts in a couple ensembles (the farmhand and Jitterbug ensembles, specifically), I had the part of Gloria (who sings "Merry Old Land of Oz" in the Broadway adaptation) in The Wizard of Oz. The girl playing my assistant and I forgot our cue on opening night, and no one else signaled us, so the main cast had to improvise for almost a minute before we finally remembered to make our entrance. No one in the audience noticed that much, though...I hope...and the guys and gals playing the main characters were all amazing, so all was well in the end. I didn't forget any lines or mess up my solo, but it's just embarrassing for me because it was a dumb mistake on my part, and it was OPENING NIGHT...xD

Omg i was there the night of the heathers show that this happened. Its honestly one of my favorite stage mistakes ive ever witnessed

I can sort of see you as a Fieyro!! You'd be amazing in Wicked.

I was Wendy in Peter Pan (play, not musical) and during the scene when the maid and Mrs. Darling come in to say goodnight to the Darling kids, the maid couldn't find the dress she was supposed to change into. Mrs. Darling waited a little while the maid was supposedly changing, while we Darling kids improved some. Finally Mrs. Darling came on stage without the maid, and we did the whole scene minus the maid! When we all got off stage we were laughing so hard! It's definitely the best improv I have ever been a part of! Oh, and when I got carried in by Toodles after the Lost Boys shoot Wendy down, my mic came off my face! It was terrible, because the mic kept popping as I was trying to stand up, and then I had to shout the rest of the decently long scene.

I was a student in Les Mis and I was one of the few people chosen to stand on these large, makeshift barricades that had wheels attached so they could turn around. The barricades were not safe, not at all. So unsafe that everyone would eye it warily every performance. I had to get off of the barricade while it turned and part of the barricade broke beneath my foot and next thing I know, I'm on the floor feeling really dizzy. Luckily, I had fallen behind the stage so the audience didn't notice, only heard the loud bang. Just as well that another cast member was already off stage waiting for another scene so they helped me off stage where I had to go get my injuries sorted. Much to the first aid person's protests, I went back on stage just in time for the whole ghost scene so perfect time really. What's worse is that the performance before led to an asthma attack because they didn't tell us about the smoke machine that was right behind me in the first flipping scene :P

One time I fell asleep on stage when I was playing the Cheshire Cat

I was the cat in Honk Jr. and during the song "Play With Your Food" I was supposed to grab an orange off the table and say "suck on this!" but there was a huge tree prop and the table was right in front of it, so I had to squeeze in between the tree and the table to get to the center of the stage (they set the props wayyyy too far downstage so otherwise I would have to walk off the stage, couldn't go behind the tree either) and when I tried to squeeze in between, I bumped the table with my foot and the orange rolled off the table and OFF THE STAGE, so when that part came, I just pointed to the sad orange sitting on the floor and said "suck on that!" it was pretty funny though

I was Mother Superior in Nunsense, and I missed an entire rap verse... on the beginning song... for the song that explains the entire plot... on the night the judges of my state's theatre awards were there... Needless to say, I needed a power cry after that.

Watching Thomas playing a murderous psychopath in a trench coat is something I want to see.

I was talking to my friend and she was talking about Heathers (I hadn't watched it yet) and she brought up JD, and I was like "oh I know him. Thomas Sanders played him once." And she was like "wHAt?!? HES TOO INNOCENT! JD IS SUCH A DARK CHARACTER!!"

We did Taming of the Shrew and I was Hortensio. One of my first lines is "My good friend Petruchio." I said "My good friend Hortensio." Instead of going along with it and pretending like nothing happened, I just said. "I am Hortensio, you are Petruchio." and then continued. The audience had a good laugh about that.

one time in my sixth grade there was a total missed opportunity that i wish i should have taken. it was like an old tall tale musical, and i thought u had to sing to be in the play. (bc in the application it didn't mention non singing roles) so long story short i found out there were non singing roles, smashed my head against my homeroom desk for 20 minutes. (also lol most of the "singers" literally spoke all of their lysics in a monotone voice more powerful than a bear tranquilizer.) and got stuck with stage crew that didnt even let me onto the stage at final curtain, and had to work with a guy who constantly was lazy and harassed me. :( but now i am currently auditoning for alice in wonderland 2 years later :) Edit: btw i had/have anxiety issues when singing on stage cuz i thought my voice was goat crap.

Alice in wonderland. Queen of hearts. SCREAMED SO LOUD IN THE ALICE'S FACE SHE FELL OFF THE STAGE INTO THE CHESHIRE CAT. yeah. 😓😓 so that happened.