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[rozk]

Gakked from abillings this
made me laugh so hard it hurt. Anyone who has ever done any acting at all has been in one of these shows.

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[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Of course, pedantry forces me to say that Ly-SIS-trata is a perfectly valid and common pronunciation of that name ....

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, I remember the adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Mort where the plexiglass scythe broke during the final matinee and the guy playing Death went home and came back with a real scythe. That duel scene was... realistic.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I was at the second or third night of the Rainbow Theatre version of Hitch Hiker - the one where Zaphod was played by two guys in a very baggy clown suit walking behind each other, and there were ramps from one level to another on stage. The costume was so crap that he couldn't walk properly and fell off the ramp.

Someone who was at the first night told be that at the moment when Slartibartfast said "Behold - the Earth mark 2" the canvas (or whatever) disk they were using fell off its cable and landed somewhere behind the scenes.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I raced onstage - shouted - "The Queen - " took a deep breath - and then burst into hysterical guffaws, laughing my way through the rest of the line like some kind of jibbering loony-tunes who thought it was a LAUGH RIOT that the Queen was dead!

I'm reminded of the production I once read of where a nervous actor got the line out as "The King, my lord, is dead." Macbeth looked at him a moment and then said, "Oh really? Then what am I doing here?"