1) Most embarrassing moment was when I was doing a dance routine as an American Footballer from "Best little Whore House in Texas" which involved getting changed on stage. I managed to get my braces caught in my crutch and still had to try and sing and Dance whilst I can here all the hoots and tears of laughter from my work crowd in the audience, who still talk about it today 4 year on.
2) Well I was doing a play during which I had to do the whole first half in boxer shorts, I had a bit where I had to kneel to talk to my "Brother" what happened next needs little imagination.... lets just say it was the biggest part the audience had seen since Hamlet...
3) Not embarrassing but strange, I was doing a musical in the West End, I was just about to go on stage in full costume, when three scandanavian tourists poke their heads throught the back stage door, and ask where McDonalds is... (They were literally 3 feet away from being on the stage and they DIDNT even realise) Dear oh dear.
4) On Stage doing Panto (Babes In The Wood)... Had a bit where i had to run around in circles being chased by the chorus..... BAM knocked over a flat nearly killing half of them, tried desperately to carry on, but the drumer in the orchestra kept giving me drumrolls, to which i had to bow. ahhhhhhhhhh
5. So I am doing a panto, and I have a head mic on, we are having a break (Dress Rehearsal) and to save us playing with the mics, they switch off the speakers and leave the mics active... during the break i have a blazing row with my g/f (My ex g/f 24 hours later) and we continue the rehearsal.... 10 minutes later im on stage when a lady in lycra enters runs to the back of the hall and they stop the rehearsal... She is a keep fit lady and the frequency she was using on her head mic to teach was the same as mine..apparently the old girls she was teaching were quite happy listening to be singing but didnt enjoy the torrent of expletives they had to listen to for 10 minutes.....
6) So we've got through the gruelling opening night for my first show and its all going rather too well until my darling boyfriend decides it would be hilarious to bestow upon my neck the largest and reddest love bite to hav ever been seen in Old Windsor. Despite continual renewal of the best theatrical make-up money can buy the stage lights eventually melted the whole lot off, revealing the great gash to the whole audience....very nice for a chaste young lady from the 1950's I must say...
7) Ok so I'm on stage with someone (Who would prefer to be nameless---so i will call him Dilwyn Bright to protect his identity) he has to end the play by shooting the fleeing suspect through the window (Easy enough im sure) however, he drops the gun through the window, the prompt kindly passes it back revealing the "hand of god" through the window before Dilwyn can shoot at the suspect....
8) I'm on stage during a run of Copacabana, about to start into my main love song... awwww..... which i do whilst playing the piano sounds easy enough right? No! One of the chorus guys had previously been asked to remove the piano from the stage at the end of the scene (ie AFTER I'd sung) However he took the scene to be over when he exited and kindly took the piano off with him. The look of my face as i turned round to start playing was quite a picture, especially as the line given to me was "Go on play me a song", to which i replied "But how? I haven't got a piano!!" It all ended up alright in the end (With a bit of adlibbing!!)
