(submitted by Sara)
The first one that comes to my mind is when we
did the musical Little Shop of Horrors last year we had this really cool
set the entire set moved. If you don't know the play is about a killer
plant that comes to take over the world and it takes place in a little
flower shop, in a ghetto called Skid Row.
Well, we decided to make the shop a series of
sections that pull apart and fit together. It was a really cool set. One
of the sections had this really heavy "refrigerator" and because
it was so heavy the wheels couldn't support it and the first time we moved
it on opening night one of the wheels fell off and we had to move half of
the set without a wheel the rest of the show. My dad was in the audience
that night and he said you could see all these bodies, I think it took
about ten of us to move that side after the wheel fell off, just pushing
as hard as they could to get this thing to move the ten feet off stage and
then back on stage. It was a mess, the next day before the show we put
these giant 4 inch carriage bolts on it and it stayed the rest of the run.
After that show the crew talked the director into doing a show that
doesn't move, and she agreed.