On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
Tell us your stories of life on the stage.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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BaaaaI was 7 or so, it was the school nativity play, and I was a shepherd. Myself and the other two shepherds are waiting backstage to go on and sing a song. I'm wearing the costume my mother has spent hours crafting. Then I suddenly decide I need a pee, so I go to the bathroom. When I return, the shepherds are onstage singing, so I run up there and join in for the last 2 bars of the song. I had no idea how odd it must have looked when a third shepherd suddenly bounded onto the stage with his smock tucked up into his belt and his flies undone.
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