In legally blond I was a dancer for the song "whipped into shape" and we used skipping ropes. Mine accidentally got thrown I to the audience and I asked "did you get whipped into shape?" 😂

The Shrek "show must go on" moment really reminded me of Starkid's Trail to Oregon. There is a clip where the Grandpa character's fake beard falls off, and he very quickly puts it back on and tells the other characters "don't tell nobody about this"

i feel bad for laughing but the sound when toto falls sends me

Fun fact: the last time I saw Wicked on the west end someone started giving birth in the middle of popular 👍 edit: Just a disclaimer they got escorted out and into an ambulance within about 5 minutes and they seemed to not be hurt or anything

I have a wonderful example of "The Show Must Go On" mentality in theater! When I was in middle school, we did a version of The Sword and the Stone where I played Merlin the Magician (Yes, as a 12 year old girl, I played a very old man). There was one scene in which I was supposed to knock out this villager and steal their horse so that I could get to Arthur and warn him about something as quickly as possible. Being middle school, our theater department was really low budget, so the horse was just a horse mask on a stick. In one performance, I "knocked" the villager out and as she was falling to the stage, I grabbed the horse. Unfortunately, I grabbed the mask instead of the stick, so the head came off in my hand. I froze for a second, in front of about 200 of my peers, then grabbed the stick from the villager, looked at the person on stage with me, said "I guess I'll have to walk anyway," then walked off stage. When I came back onstage in my next scene, and asked my partner how long I had taken to get there, he said "27 minutes, you might have gotten there in time if you hadn't killed the horse." The original line was simply, "17 minutes, too late." From this point on I was known as "Horse Murderer" by all my classmates.

I love the "the audience actually loves theatre mishaps" mentality - I wish that translated to more aspects of theatre, such as a better understanding of the backstage work, especially concerning who stage managers are and what they do. It's easy to get caught up in the actors in front of you; sometimes I wish audiences were more exposed to mishaps - and even simply backstage practices - as a reminder that we're not seeing magic - we're seeing *people*.

yea speaking of "the show must go on" mentality. one time we were doing godspell (i was the asm) and one of our dancers somehow DISLOCATED HER SHOULDER. she finished the number while it was still dislocated, and thankfully we had a veteran war medic who put it back into place. she ran of stage, he put it back in, she made not ONE SOUND, and finished the rest of the show.

I cannot tell you how excited I got when Heathers was mentioned

There’s so much Frozen accidents and they always find a way to keep the show going! My favorite has to be when Sven, Anna, and Kristoff were stuck in the air and the machinery wasn’t bringing them down correctly so they decided to spazz it up and make some hilarious jokes.

And since everyone's sharing their story, here's mine: I was in a production of Cinderella Jr back in 1st grade. It was my first production I had ever done, and somehow I got Cinderella. Anyway, during Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo the Fairy Godmother smacked me in the face with her wand, so that was fun. Later on, when I was running from the ball, in my struggle to get my shoe off on purpose, I tripped and fell down the stairs. Me being the first grader I was broke character, wanting to let the audience know I was alright, and said “I'm okay.” I then gathered myself up and ran backstage, where I felt upset and my director then proceeded to hug me and say that Cinderella would totally have done that when she was running. Lol

I'm the guy who broke Milky White! Thanks for sharing my clip, Sam & Ryan. Big fan of you guys so it was surreal to watch you...watching me haha

When I was in Annie, we had a live dog and she was absolutely wonderful. Her owner would hold out carrots backstage whenever she needed to run off and onstage you could just hear the crunch. Don’t know why she liked carrots much but all of the cast loved her. The director even added a role in the next show he did so that she could be in it.

There was one time my school did Beauty and the Beast, and one night, I think it was either opening night or our second show, during the big fight scene between the beast and Gaston, Gaston's wig came off and so the actor who played beast yelled "GET OUT OF HERE!! AND TAKE YOUR TOUPÉE WITH YOU!!!" It was amazing.

you guys should react to moments on stage when the actors look directly into the camera of someone videotaping the show.

There’s a great example of “the show must go on done right” in Aladdin and the genie just made a moment out of it and even brought it up latter to get some laughs out of the audience

I was in Hairspray playing Amber and at the end of Mamma Ima Big Girl Now me and the woman who played Velma had dialogue and I was supposed to walk of stage after but my wig fell of and I improvised by saying " Yeah I have Cancer but you wouldn't know cause your a bad mom " and walked of the stage as my friends watched shook.

My own theatre fail story: My friend and I were on stage crew (prop team, specifically) in middle school. We were doing Mary Poppins, and my friend was moving one of the garden wall sections with plants on it. But in one blackout transition, the entire ensemble had to be reshuffled and ppl were moving on and off stage, and my friend had to help move a few things, so they turned the lights back on while she was still trying to move the wall and she had to duck behind it, but one of the plants was falling off the top so she had to hold it up so it didn't fall and distract the actors and the audience. She was stuck behind the prop holding that plant for that whole scene.

I like the story of Mike Faist preforming the entirety of King Of New York in Newsies with a chair stuck on his leg because he was dancing on it and went straight through and couldn’t get it off, and they had to dance around him and try to masterfully help pull it off 😂

I love the improv scenes! Once I was in Mary Poppins, and we we're doing the kite scene, and Burt says "YOU CAN DO THIS!" and a few seconds later, the kit feel down and everyone was gasps and laughing and then Burt quickly fixed it and says "Or Not" and then everyone started screaming and cheering. The actor who played Burt even got recognized for his great improv and quick thinking.

I absolutely love the way that Ryan looks at Sam while she's talking. It's so cute like he's listening so hard

When I saw the Lightning Thief musical, Chris (aka Percy Jackson) Dropped riptide when he was supposed to catch it but he made it work for percy so well XD And then Kristin (Annabeth) accidentally looked directly into medusa's eyes but she just pretended she didn't. I love seeing how actors react to mess ups.

9:46 *SPOILERS FOR PIPPIN* my highschool put on a production of Pippin... and in the scene where Pippin is supposed to stab his father (the king), the king had a piece of foam under his costume so the fake sword would stick... however, the king picked up the fallen sword and stared at Pippin and said “look at you, you can’t even stab a man” and “killed himself”... also my middle school did a production of The Lion King and whenever Scar sends the hyenas after Simba, Ed was “asleep” in Scar’s throne and missed his cue to leave so Scar just turned to him and snapped his fingers in front of Ed’s face... Ed’s eyes snap open and Scar says “Good morning, sunshine, have a nice sleep?”, Ed nods and Scar sighs deeply and responds “i don’t care! now, go!” and Ed runs off stage😂 ALSO pt. 2: hi i love your videos

me lonely as fr*ck watches sam and ryan and sees there adorable coupleness frick im lonelier

The one with Milky White sent me. I was actually Milky White in a production of Jack and The Beanstalk so I totally got this guy. I think one of the funniest things is that the next line was actually "You'll be fine" and he totally rolled with is to MAJOR props

8:13 Ryan just staring into Sam's soul... THEY ARE PERFECT

The cow in into the woods always cracks me up- in my high school’s production the cow was played by someone in a onesie- and when he died he was one the ground trying to get peoples attention- it was just hilarious. I just love the cow in every production.

okay but can we talk about how magnificent Sam's nails look?

I actually saw one of your bloopers Ryan! Instead of saying “Seeing through different eyes,” you said, “feeling through different eyes.” I was so honored to btw, I’ve never witnessed a line mishap!

I remember when I was stagecrew in high school for the musicals. We did Mary poppins and I got stuck in our bedroom set that was two sides locked together. They put the lights up too soon and i wasnt off the stage so i had to hide between two thin poles and the cast almost laughed out loud

I’ve seen a theater fail in person (besides being in a ton myself lol). It’s at least the only one I’ve ever noticed when just sitting in the audience. This was when I saw Mean Girls on Broadway and Regina broke the mic during her scream as the bus hits her. It was actually really funny to hear and then see everyone on stage freeze even as professionals.

Staying in character recoveries: My senior year of HS we did It's a Wonderful Life. The actor who played Potter (a wheelchair-bound character for those who may not know) was able-bodied, 6'3 and a bigger guy, so he always walked on set and then settled into the chair if he was on stage at the start of a scene. In the scene during which George Bailey goes to beg Potter for money to save the Building & Loan, the crew brought the lights up before Potter was seated, obviously getting a response from the audience. The actor who played George had his head down cause he already was in character getting ready for the big emotional monologue his character has, so he didn't see it. Potter quickly sat down in the wheelchair, and by the time George looked up (upon hearing the audience's reaction), he was none-the-wiser. Potter said (with a Obi-Wan Kenobi-esque hand wave), "George, you saw nothing." George replied, "Huh? what?" which had the audience dying of laughter and the scene was off to the races from there.

Ryan: that's terrible, and not even funny. Me: laughing and shaking

Haha one time my school did into the woods and when the witch was cutting off rapunzel’s hair, she accidentally yanked off her entire wig, so she was just sitting there in her wig cap😂

The into the woods fail always makes me wheeze, I’ve seen it so many times and I just cannot contain the blind laugher that comes out of me

"It's never this super emberrasing, terrible moment for anyone" **flashbacks to Alex Brightman's Boq horror-story** suuuure, Ryan, suuuure

Omg I was thinking “wait where have I seen that guy before?” And then I was like “OMG THATS JD”

Someone said the Scottish play last year in our production of Legally Blonde, and a whole pandemic happened, and we didn’t get to perform it.

The way Ryan looks at Sam!! Like I've never seen someone Look so in love

I almost wiped out during "Shipoopi" in my high school production of "The Music Man". Our choreographer had decided to have a very long part of the dance be like moving in a big circle around the leads with a spin every like 3 steps. I was not wearing the right shoes and quickly got dizzy and ended up slipping during a spin. Thank gods for my dance partner who immediately noticed the slip and was able to catch me. A lot of things went wrong during that musical, including the choreographer just refusing to teach me and my partner the ending of the dance because i happened to be out sick the day they taught it, but to this day im thankful that my partner was so nice and helpful. Shoutout to you dude

did I watch both sam’s and ryan’s tiktoks while waiting for this to premiere? yes. yes i did.

Kind of disappointing how they didn't watch the whole of the cow video because at the end someone from the pit just sliiiides the cow leg back on stage, and it's honestly funnier than the part where the leg breaks off

I love how you both were able to find the humor in these without making fun, and kept defending everyone 💛

I could not record it, but earlier this fall, my dad played in the pit for Ames Community Theater (Ames is where I live) and they had three girls from the audience onstage. When the last girl was left, they hadn't reached the end of act one and they asked her to spell 'Hope'. She went H-O-P-P-E. In order to keep her onstage for the last song in act one to make sense, the guy announcing the words said "I'll give it to you!" and in response to the actors reactions he added on with "It's the french spelling!". Hilarious improv moment!

The best part of the Into the Woods video was cut out! If memory serves correctly, a pit member takes the leg, puts it back on the end of the stage, and Jack has to find it and put it back on Milky White. I think it makes the moment!

Why are they the cutest couple on the internet tho?

I relate to the falling onstage thing so much. In one of my most recent shows, I had a scene where I chased another character with a broom and there had been a cloth from a previous scene on the floor of the stage that the tech crew hadn't taken off so when I was running I tripped and fell. Apparently it looked like it was supposed to happen so all was well but my friends now pretty much bet on if I'm going to fall or not.

I was in a production of Singing in the Rain our whole motto for the show was “the show must go on”. We had many mishaps, but they were all handled very professionally. My favorite was when we had a technical issue and all the lights went out. The actor playing Cosmo said “Well I guess you forgot to pay the power bill again R.F.”. Then ran and turned the lights back on and the audience absolutely loved it!

Ryan is literally the easiest musical theater celebrity to talk to.

When i was younger and we did alladin, the first night when perfect, and then the second night we were all really hyped up and we improvised soo much and the mistakes just made it soo much better

Two years ago I played Ursula and at the very end where I was “dying” i got so dramatic that my bead bracelet snapped and it basically exploded all over the stage. The funny thing is that my parents were there and they said they heard it💀

Ryan is SO right. When Aladdin came to our town the hydraulics for the cave of wonders set wasn’t working so the scene change took longer and they eventually stopped the song and the actors left the stage.....for a good intermission-sized portion of time. Lucky audience getting that extra bathroom break. Lol. But then Adam Jacobs came back in stage and the song resumed and EVERYONE applauded and it was awesome. Haha

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We were doing Once Upon A Mattress and the lead was supposed to knock a vase over on a table and spill “water” but she accidentally knocked it off the table and shattered it. She played it off very well though. But when I heard it shatter I was like “Oh God”

The “show must go on” moment reminded me of when I was in high school our director used to came to the back to talk to us(sound and lights). She made the light person missed her cue in Harvey. So, one of the actress had to be like “Why are y’all sitting in the dark” IT WAS HILARIOUS The improv of that moment was ✨IMPECCABLE✨

Ryan: I'm a giver, I'm a protector JD: Yea me too *kills the person who spilled the drink*

The beetle juice clip where the tear away pants didnt come off is so good, the giggles from the cast during the dance number makes that clip 😂

lol i was annie and we had a live dog and pretty much every run she would cry during tomorrow and our final dress was filmed and during that run she ran onstage and ran right back off so i was just kinda standing there saying hERe bOy while the handler was offstage practically pushing her back onstage it was so funny

Ryan is dressed as my mother and I’m living for it.

A few summers ago I was in Frozen the Musical jr. . The housekeepers and I were singing for the first time in forever and in the middle of the song, the audio cut off and we just had to sing the rest of our part of the song like nothing happened. It was so awkward😂

I remember seeing if/then and Idina forgot a prop, and basically (in her words after the curtain), took a sledgehammer to the fourth wall. They started the scene over and then Idina joked about it on the second take. Definitely made the show memorable. Everyone laughed (even the people onstage) and it just looked like they were just having fun.

Ah yes, when your scrolling through KZfaq on a Wednesday and just want to see people fail

Fun fact: I’m friends with the Hyperion Elsa and have discussed this with her lol

Did y’all match on purpose or complete coincidence lol

Love this already. It hasn'r started yet. But whatevs

Me: lonely Me watching Sam and Ryan: lonely but entertained

Barrett and Jessica once shared Heathers and Mean Girls fails, it was hilarious

can i just say, i love how when sam speaks ryan always seems to give her his undivided attention. Its very endearing:))

I actually just recently went to a local production of Heathers, and as they were performing an alarm in the building started going off everyone just kind of continued singing and looked around. The stage manager got everytone to exit the stage. They evacuated the theater, took everyone out then they made sure it was safe. We went back in and they started the scene over. It was all very professional and didn’t ruin the show in any way. Not only that, but it was a theater that had multiple productions going on so they had Heathers Addams family, a young kids show about trees or something and something that had ghost in it Add the theater was in a mall so we all had to go out in the parking garage

You guys just hit 30k subscribers! Sam & Ryan supremacy all the way! and oh, I don't see ~ Phenomenal KZfaqr~ on Ryan's IG and Twitter bio so letting you know that we're waiting.

Our Hans said he was the queen once and everyone called him Drag Queen (name) for the rest of the show we laughed so hard off set

We also did Annie at my high school and we used my dog to play Sandy. It was convenient that I had the role and he wasn't a young dog so he would definitely come and follow everyone, but rehearsals were so fun having this tiny shih zhu running around. It was also slightly funny to see as the kid being the dog pound guy was a bit iffy around dogs (max did help with that which was nice)

Almost the same Peter Pan fail happened in the community theatre production of the show that I was in a few years ago. I think it was only the preview night, but still, as Peter was flying in, she hit the window and it broke off. We had to stop the show for maybe 15 minutes while they put it back together.

I have seen Frozen at the Hyperion many times, and I've seen two seperate fails. One time Elsa was on the ice stairs in the middle of Let it Go, and the stairs suddenly stop rotating, and she was just trapped on the stairs while the mechanics tried to get it moving again. In the second fail, the Olaf puppet stopped working, almost like the joints were stuck, so as hard as the puppeteer tried, he couldn't get Olaf's limbs to move, but he was a really good sport about it, and just pretended it was so cold that Olaf was frozen. Both times it was fixed pretty quickly, so good job Disney

I was in Beauty and the Beats and I played Lefou and there was this scene where the Gaston and Lefou got together with this evil guy and planned something to attack the castle, and the evil guy(I forgot the characters name) was like 5 minutes late to go on stage. And this whole scene was timed with music and lines, so me and the Gaston just went out by ourselves and tried to put on something. I remember being so proud because I made up a line that made the audience laugh and I was so happy. I asked my family if they noticed that we messed up that scene and they said they didn’t notice a thing! Anyways I’m really proud of that moment lol 😂

I also love when something goes wrong on stage and you as an audience member get to see how they go on in character. Like how would their character react? And I love it.

When I was in into the woods as Cinderella, while my shoes and dress were thrown to me from the tree/ my mother, the stagehands threw the shoes and one of them hit me in the head and I had to keep singing😂

I’ve had a few theatre fails of my own. I think the biggest one I’ve had was “the curse.” So I was in The Jungle Book Kids production and at the end of The Barenesesstiies we’re all supposed to be lying down on the stage while the monkeys came and took mowgli. And when we woke up I kept hitting my head on the box behind me. It happened a lot during rehearsals. But then it actually happened during one of our show dates and I hit my head a lot harder this time. I had a headache pretty much throughout the rest of the show. It was awful. I think the reason I was cursed was because at one point during rehearsals when we were supposed to be scared of Shere Khan, I moved my body a little too close to this pole next to me that it fell over. But luckily someone slid over and caught it. But anyways that’s one of my theatre incidents.

Was so excited for this upload

i was once in a production of little shop of horrors and in the song feed me the person that was meant to get in the plant to control it missed their cue and i found it quite funny how the really energetic voice of the plant and the comparison of the completely dead plant, not moving at all, looking wilted the entire number

We had a hunchback of notre dame production here in Germany and one time, the actress who played Esmeralda took a step backwards and fell down the stairs. They did pause the show and her understudy continued the show for her. I’m glad she wasn’t injured seriously 😳

When you showed Into The Woods, that was the one I came for!!😂

So, this wasn't during a show, but an audition. During the acrobatics portion, I fell into my backbend and somehow, because of nerves, got stuck, fell flat on my face, and flipped over bodyslamming the floor. The entire room was just silent. I played it off (though I was in a daze) and did some kicks and walked back to my spot. And everyone was just silent. No polite clapping, no nothin. Just a bunch of "are you alright, that looked like it hurt"? 🤣 To make it even funnier, I got the Grinch.

15:19 The funniest things is that the lyrics "Why aren't surprised when ever were *wipeout* unsupervised"

My guess for what happened on the Peter Pan one, when the window falls is, from other versions of this story I have seen done on stage and movie, Peter is SUPPOSED to fly through the nursery window to find Wendy, and like you said, the set was not secured properly, and rather than hitting his mark and going THROUGH the opening, he crashed right into it. Or perhaps the harness he was rigged to got caught on the set and it fell.

What I’ve learned from drama/theater is, if you mess up or someone else does, IMPROVISE and KEEP GOING

the olaf one always breaks my heart because the guy clearly tries to play it off as a funny haha moment when he first falls, and then tries to continue the song but his mic is gone and so is the puppet and everything is really just working against him. and to top it off, it all happens within the final 20 seconds of the song.

I've never fallen during a performance but have done the WAP dance dressed as a belle in 6 inch heels and someone pushed me off the stage.

Y'know that really popular clip of Laura Bell Bundy losing her shoe in Legally Blonde? When my college org did Legally Blonde, we decided to incorporate that into the show so Elle intentionally kicks her shoe off stage and there's a designated staff member in the audience to catch it.

This was really funny but also really cool because I've always wanted to do theater but am always so afraid of messing up even though it's inevitable even if you've been doing it for years with any art, but it's really cool to see that it's normal, not anything personal/actually embarassing.

In a Dutch production of Wicked, Fiyero called Glinda Elphie by accident. The actress playing Glinda reacted great by calling him out in character 😂

IM CRYING RYAN WHY DID U FALL LIKE THAT PLS- 😭😭😭🤚🏻🤚🏻

An example of “the show must go on” that I experienced was when I played Jonathon in A Christmas Carol the Musical. I had a couple short solos. Closing night, I got a really bad cold. I could hardly sing. However, my double was not there that day. She was sick. So, I had to do the show. I was so nervous about trying to sing my solo that I missed my entrance. No one in the audience noticed, but the director did. When I was in the green room, laying down because I didn’t feel well, the director thought I was sulking and gave me a whole lecture about not getting upset when your performance didn’t go well. I was so annoyed until I finally said “I’m not sulking, I’m just sick!”

I loved this video! Watched it 100 times and laughed every time! You should make a part 2! There are so many more to react to

My “the show must go on” moment was whenever the main actress of our spring play had a nosebleed during intermission and for the whole rest of the second act her nose was bleeding and we shoved paper towels and like toilet paper up her nose and she was wearing a white wedding dress from one of the Drama moms and it was a whole mess and we can’t just stop show because it’s lasted an hour or two which isn’t good but the show went on without a hitch and then whenever they said just turn the lights out I was internally screaming because I run the lights board for Drama Club and I was like it’s not that simple ok 😢

The way Ryan looks at Sam when she's talking is just so passionate somehow.

Honestly I love when you have to improv and it goes right. I played Grace (the secretary) in Annie Jr. and in one scene the lights come up on Mr. Warbucks on the phone with the president while Grace is taking notes. My scene partner forgot what scene it was so the lights come up and I’m standing there alone. It’s silent. I immediately begin checking my watch and tapping my foot as well as looking at the door. Few seconds later he comes in and I snarkly go, “you’re late.” He replies, “I know.” Then picks up the phone and goes “Mr. President sorry for keeping you waiting.” It worked beautifully my parents didn’t even realize that wasn’t scripted.

I thought the reaction to the Olaf clip was more of an "aww :(" in a kind of "this sucks that that happened to the actor I'm making a noise of sympathy" rather than "ah damn my show was ruined"

I was in Cinderella Jr. and I was Cinderella. One of the stepsisters pushed a duke so hard that he fell and dropped the slipper off stage. One of the crew members knocked over a ladder backstage. A boy threw up on stage. It was an interesting couple of perfomances😂

one time i got my pants caught on a curtain. i heard fabric tear. the tear wasn’t the curtain.

These were all amazing but I can’t help but absolutely love the one of Ryan and the choice to protect the others