School Peter Pan Production Begs The Question, Is There A Tony For “Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen?”

School Peter Pan Production Begs The Question, Is There A Tony For “Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen?”
Any current or ex theaterites out there with painful memories of past productions may not want to watch the following video, a school production of Peter Pan sent to us by The Fab Life that goes… well… the opposite of perfectly. And when I say you “may not want to watch it,” I of course mean, [...]

Any current or ex theaterites out there with painful memories of past productions may not want to watch the following video, a school production of Peter Pan sent to us by The Fab Life that goes… well… the opposite of perfectly.

And when I say you “may not want to watch it,” I of course mean, please watch the crap out of it. 1:15 may be the greatest moment in theatrical history:

After the jump, the conclusion to the show, as well as my own favorite theater mishap story:

Finale:

For the record, my all-time favorite mishap occurred during a community theater production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest that I was in one summer; on opening night, during the climactic second-to-last scene when the inmates sneak two prostitutes into the hospital for a party, the actor playing McMurphy went to the window (an actual window built into the side wall of the stage) and said his line, “Harding, toss me the key!” and the actor playing Harding threw the keys past his face and right out the window. Both actors stood there silently for a second, then the McMurphy actor just blurted out, “Toss me the OTHER key!” and the Harding actor thought for a second, then walked over to him and pretended to hand him something, and the McMurphy actor mimed unlocking the window with an invisible key (even though the flying keys had clearly revealed that there was no glass in the window, nor was it locked, etc.)

I never crack up on stage (I was always too nervous to enjoy myself), but when the keys went flying through the window, I had to literally leave the building from the back exit because I was laughing too hard backstage and the audience could clearly hear me. To this day, deciding to leave the backstage area was probably the best thing I’ve done as an actor.

Other theater production mishap stories? Leave ‘em in the comments.