Theater Gone Wrong: The Night Ramin Karimloo Skipped a Scene in Les Misérables 

Ramin! "Aren't you supposed to be on stage right now?" "Yes I am..." that's literally my worst nightmare

he is like wine. the older the better

He handled that like a champ I'd just panic

Madame Giry: “Can’t you see that the master’s at work? Can’t you see his mind’s somewhere else? Can’t you see that obviously he’s thinking of things more important than you?” 😂

Years ago when I was in a production of Midsummer Night's dream, we had something happen that was basically this amped up to 11. Not just one person skipped a scene, but we all _collectively forgot a scene existed._ It wasn't even like, a filler-y scene either. This was a plot-relevant one and as soon as we finished the scene that was supposed to be after it, the guy playing Oberon turned to me and said "We just skipped a scene, didn't we?" Apparently nobody watching the show noticed, but boy did everyone backstage notice!

I remember being in a show once where for the matinees they skipped intermission but didn't bother to tell any of the cast, so i was taking my sweet time getting ready to start the scene after intermission, another cast member comes up to me in the dressing room and says "hey, you do realize they're waiting on you to start act 2" and I literally book it up the stairs on stage, I think I was out of breath for that entire first scene but I think it added a little something to the character. oh how I love the theater.

Well at that part Cosette says "there's so little you say, etc." So I guess if it happened at any part at least it fit.

To my fellow theatre people, this has happened to everyone at least once! That said, you only make this mistake once during a show

Jesus Christ... I have no words. This is literally my worst nightmare *_EVER_*!

Please protect him

Lol this happened to me in a school production except it was the other person who had not come on stage. It was meant to be a big drunk argument scene where it was just us two shouting at each other in a bedroom. I panicked right before I was meant to go on (he was meant to be stood next to me when we went on). Thankfully there was a mirror in on the set and as I was playing drunk I shouted my lines at it and acted like it was saying stuff back to me. I was kinda humiliated but the audience couldn't tell ahahah

Even the greatest make mistakes. A comforting thought somehow.

he is perfect even when makes a mistake jejejejej

we must protect this man at all cost

During the final dress rehearsal when I did _Les Mis_ (I was, among other ensemble roles, Babet, one of Thénadier's gang), I was hanging in the green room during "A Heart Full of Love." I'm in costume and ready to go, but for some reason, after two months of rehearsals, I have suddenly convinced myself that there is an entire song between "Heart Full of Love" and "Attack on Rue Plumet." So those lovely finals notes play, I smile (because it's pretty), and then everyone else in the room just kind of looks at me in confusion. Then those violent strings play and I make a hundred yard dash to launch myself onstage literally just in time to gasp "HE KEEPS HIMSELF TO HIMSELF HE'S STAYING CLOSE TO GROUND" and the look on Thénadier's face is a priceless combination of relief, shock, and utter bewilderment. I don't think I've ever run that fast before or since.

I always read the script backstage so I knew exactly where we were and when my scene started. One time though another actor missed his mark and we had to improvise the rest of the scene. It was so obvious that the audience started to laugh and we laughed our way through the scene, too.

Bless this man

I forgive you Ramin. How could I not

Ramin is so very handsome and being such a sweet guy!

He is so adorable

I was once in a production of a play that is set in a hospital and me and another character were trying to improvise whilst waiting for one of the other actors. It had been about 3 minutes and he had still missed his cue so I decided (I was a nurse) to improvise going to check on him, it turns out he was rushing to get on stage, had tripped and fractured his ankle, luckily for the character he was playing he had to have a cast on his foot and was in a wheelchair...whoops...

Oh God, something like this happened to me in high school. We did a production of The Messenger by Markus Zusak, and I played Markus (a fictionalized version of him). I would sit in a chair on a raised section upstage and pretend to be writing out the play as it was being performed. Occasionally I would briefly introduce a scene during a quick change, but one time I introduced the next scene and I noticed everyone was taking a little longer to get in their places. I had gotten my cues mixed up, which forced everyone to collectively skipped over an entire scene. Thankfully it wasn't a very well-known play so no-one noticed. I didn't realise till after we finished, but we all had a good laugh about it afterwards 😄

Next time ur feeling nervous or unprepared, just know event he pros mess up here and there and move on calmly!!!

So soorry. Gosh, he's adorable!

Oh i remembered that!You said that in a show and you had to do that scene,and ill tell you i was laughing my eyes out (well not exactly)

I would love for him to look at me with those eyes saying, "I'm sorry". I would forgive him immediately

We were doing a production at this theatre camp. Two kids who had clearly just been sent there because it was some form of summer camp were playing two of the main roles. I thought they did good, given the circumstances( the one kid was really funny, especially being as young as he was ), but there’s this one scene where two other characters are hiding behind a rock and the two kids have to come in. They completely missed their entrance and we couldn’t really do anything without it being at least somewhat noticeable to the audience, so, we were just waiting for them to make their entrance on their own while the two other actors improvised onstage 😂

ITs really something I see ramin doing xD

Yesyes he like wine verry handsome

STORY TIME I was playing the Mayor in this stupid production recently and I was onstage as ensemble to dance in the song stage right. I exit up stage right and a scene change is supposed to occur. I have to enter down stage left by the time that's done. The way the theatre was laid out, you have to exit and run through the lobby, past the bathrooms, then through the green room and to the wings. Here I am in heels and a dress walking offstage...and the second I step behind the curtain I'm booking it as fast as possible. I managed to make it just in time to freeze in place.

Once I was in a play and this one girl missed her cue every time. For months, every single time we rehearsed that scene, I would say my line and - silence. She wouldn’t come onstage. I recited my line again, louder. Nothing. She was just chatting backstage instead of paying attention. She had to be prompted to go onstage by the director _during_ our shows because she just wouldn’t pay attention. The night of our very last performance, I politely told her to pay attention to the scene and let this last show go smoothly. There was a fifteen-second gap between my line and her entrance that night. ;-;

In drama class in high school we did a play where one girl managed to skip a page or so of dialogue. Unfortunately, that included my cue to exit and we all frantically improv'ed our way through the rest of the scene...

when i was in into the woods as little red riding hood, there's a scene where cinderella and i exchange a few lines and it cues the sound people to play the giant's prerecorded lines. they were listening for two of our lines in specific in a row to cue their part. cinderella messed up and said a line prematurely, which meant we couldn't continue with our cues to the sound people and just stared, frozen and fearful, at the ceiling until the sound people got the hint and finally played the lines. it was a solid ten seconds of just. silence.

Ok, this sounds like a nightmare.

I’m in love

When my high school theatre did Wendy and Peter Pan last year, one of my friends said that for once we actually have everything ready on time. Halfway through the show a lamp ends up breaking and so we had to add ten minutes to intermission so we could clean up the glass. And the spot that all the glass was on is where the actor for peter was supposed to lay down so we had to be really careful.

I once did a musical theatre recital wherein I got changed into the absolute wrong thing but also miscalculated the number of songs I had in between to change. I ended up missing the song where I was heavily featured and had to apologize profusely to my cast-mates later.

The exact same thing happened to me in a performance of As you like it!

During a production of The Miracle Worker at my high school not only did one actor have to read his lines from bits of props (because he was a last minute replacement), the Mother ended up puking blood halfway through the show (offstage, during a dinner scene). Our Anne decided that the show was over at that point and pulled my off stage with a pitcher of water to do the final scene of the show (I was Hellen and had no idea what was going on at that point). I have others from college, but this is the worst one to date.

That’s what you call a fantastic stage manager; if they are calm I’ll be calm.

I was in a production of the Crucible. I was in a scene with three people but one of them didn’t show up. My first line in the scene is to call the persons name, and I didn’t know she wasn’t there yet, so I call out her name and walk on stage. I realize she isn’t there and then freak. It’s so funny. The other person and I basically just did some improv and then carried the scene. It was so stressful, but looking back it is super funny. The really terrible thing too I’d that the girl who missed only had that one scene, so for that one performance she wasn’t even on stage so she didn’t come out for curtain call.

I relly like les miserables that you play in can you buy i on DVD

When I was in ‘The Crucible’ the court scene on the opening night went horrendously wrong. We skipped 6-7 pages, including a HUGE plot point 😂😂😂

Theatre gone wrong. You mean that time I saw this production of Les Mis and Ramon wasn’t performing that day? Yeah, me too. 😹 I think he had been injured though and he was out for a few weeks.

Yikes. That actually is really bad.

Ohp! This is so funny!

That’s fun. Corona made us skip our entire Les Misérables show. ._.

Hot sexy gorgeous beautiful guy who is also a cute funny adorable precious cinnamon roll.

too funny..

😂😂

First Patti LuPone leaves Jean Valjean yo die onstage by himself, then THIS?!

oopsie

I don't think I could be his wife I would never get anything done

Is that a Canadian accent? He left Iran as a baby.

Next time ur feeling nervous or unprepared, just know event he pros mess up here and there and move on calmly!!!