Memorable Theatre Experiences - The 2nd Coming
Here's some more experiences from another theatre friend. I love the joy this art form brings to audiences, actors, musicians and crew alike.
J. Dyme
Honestly my favorite "moment" in theatre was the first year I was in the "Vagina Monologues" and I played "Angry". Enough said really. The crowd was rolling, and my delivery was absolutely perfect and on point. Each time I finished a sentence I had to wait 2 minutes for the crowd to settle down, there was such a flow to it....it gave me the biggest rush ever. It's the closest I think I'll ever get to being a stand-up comedian and that's what I've always wanted to be!
The next one that comes to mind is when I was playing the role of "Cassie" in a recent production called "The Queen of Hearts Ain't That Pretty"....I had an understudy for the matinee showing, and so I had the opportunity to roam backstage and mess with the whole crew. I was in our dressing room listening to the chat over the headsets that came over the loudspeaker in the room, and as the show was going they were telling all kinds of jokes, and doing everything they could to keep themselves entertained, and THEN proceeded to talk about how lame they thought this play was and can't believe the director chose this production.....I was pushing all sorts of buttons to try and figure out how I could put my voice over and speak to them so I could agree and let them know I was hearing everything, well apparently I was hitting the wrong button and it kept beeping over everyone's headsets.....so as I'm cracking up by myself in the dressing room....they are all freaking out about the beeping noise thinking it's being heard onstage....and then they started saying "Oh my god, someone snuck in the dressing room!!!....." FINALLY I figured out how to get my voice heard, and we all were on the ground rolling when they finally found out that I heard everything they had said.....The behind the scenes are always the most entertaining.
P.s.- in this same production, one of the props was a bottle of gin and of course for all showings we had a gin bottle with water in it, on closing night.....I replaced the water with real gin without telling the rest of the cast.....and many of the scenes called for huge gulps from the bottle.....so I was ready to get loose on stage from the gin, but the CREW was two steps ahead...because they replaced MY GIN with Salt water....so when onstage.....I was surprised and pissed off at the same time, but of course had to hide all emotion and continue to act drunk...... in the end I had to laugh, but I still was pissed that they wasted the perfectly good alcohol.
J. Dyme
Honestly my favorite "moment" in theatre was the first year I was in the "Vagina Monologues" and I played "Angry". Enough said really. The crowd was rolling, and my delivery was absolutely perfect and on point. Each time I finished a sentence I had to wait 2 minutes for the crowd to settle down, there was such a flow to it....it gave me the biggest rush ever. It's the closest I think I'll ever get to being a stand-up comedian and that's what I've always wanted to be!
The next one that comes to mind is when I was playing the role of "Cassie" in a recent production called "The Queen of Hearts Ain't That Pretty"....I had an understudy for the matinee showing, and so I had the opportunity to roam backstage and mess with the whole crew. I was in our dressing room listening to the chat over the headsets that came over the loudspeaker in the room, and as the show was going they were telling all kinds of jokes, and doing everything they could to keep themselves entertained, and THEN proceeded to talk about how lame they thought this play was and can't believe the director chose this production.....I was pushing all sorts of buttons to try and figure out how I could put my voice over and speak to them so I could agree and let them know I was hearing everything, well apparently I was hitting the wrong button and it kept beeping over everyone's headsets.....so as I'm cracking up by myself in the dressing room....they are all freaking out about the beeping noise thinking it's being heard onstage....and then they started saying "Oh my god, someone snuck in the dressing room!!!....." FINALLY I figured out how to get my voice heard, and we all were on the ground rolling when they finally found out that I heard everything they had said.....The behind the scenes are always the most entertaining.
P.s.- in this same production, one of the props was a bottle of gin and of course for all showings we had a gin bottle with water in it, on closing night.....I replaced the water with real gin without telling the rest of the cast.....and many of the scenes called for huge gulps from the bottle.....so I was ready to get loose on stage from the gin, but the CREW was two steps ahead...because they replaced MY GIN with Salt water....so when onstage.....I was surprised and pissed off at the same time, but of course had to hide all emotion and continue to act drunk...... in the end I had to laugh, but I still was pissed that they wasted the perfectly good alcohol.
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