“I won’t need knee pads” ~ famous last words

Katherine uploaded. *yes Fiona, god is there*

@abby04g30

5 жыл бұрын

Kavins art I KNOW IT’S TODAY OOOOOOOOOO OOOH

@tessolak7627

5 жыл бұрын

A. De S. send me to places where no one before me has been!

@richardmeyd9234

5 жыл бұрын

You are extremely pretty, have great looking eyes and eyebrows Never saw you in a musical but wud like to do it.

I was just recently in Beauty and the Beast and during the Be Our Guest kick line, there was a table full of cupcakes, and my friend kicked it.... into the audience and on the stage😂😂

I was Madame in a high school production of Cinderella. Cinderella is supposed to make this great entrance after the stepsisters try on the shoe and the shoe fits Ella and it’s all great. Our Ella couldn’t get her dress on in time and did not make her great entrance. So I’m talking to Charlotte and in my head I’m thinking “please know where I’m going with this”. Everyone on stage is just mouthing words because it was usually a really quick turn-a-round so everyone jumped when I said to Charlotte, “ Yes I know the shoe didn’t fit, dear. We’ll have to think of something else”. Thank goodness, she knew exactly what I wanted to do and replied, “Maybe we should cut off my toes!” because in the original fairy tale that’s what happens. It was opening night, we had to improv for what felt like two minutes, it was the craziest thing. It all worked out and it was a lot fun. So all’s well that ends well, I guess!

@hannahmartin489

5 жыл бұрын

I just finished a production of Cinderella!

@Annesglitter

4 жыл бұрын

Julia Kreitzer OMG

I was once doing tech for into the woods for my school, and during one of the performances the bakers wife went too rip out a small part of rapunzel’s hair and she ripped off the entire wig and ran off stage with it

Can we get a Broadway Bites for healthy show snacks?

@mainlyjustheathers2534

4 жыл бұрын

Ok but that’s smart

@emmaj8337

4 жыл бұрын

*y e s*

@sometimessomee3535

3 жыл бұрын

not messy with no allergens

God, that last story had me on the edge of my seat. Shoutout to the crew for pulling through in times of crisis- I remember one time during Lion King my mic pack FLEW (like. NYOOM.) off of me (I was Shenzi ((lead hyena)) in the middle of Be Prepared ((big hyena song)) and I just had to casually run offstage like it was intentional and I just ran STRAIGHT INTO the stage manager and was silently like I HAVE GLOVES ON ATTACH THIS MIC PACK TO MY LEGGINGS but dead silent bc my mic was still on. And she pulled through in literally like seven seconds flat with absolute precision and poise and I ran back onstage like it was scripted!

@anneblackwood9013

6 жыл бұрын

Jordan Smith Actually, Shenzi and Bonzai have exactly the same amount of lines, and are in all of the same scenes and songs. -Sorry I'm a bit defensive; I played Bonzai lol-

@orangebar2693

6 жыл бұрын

DEH Hamiltrash T-Everlasting Horses Charter-Kid I second that

@anneblackwood9013

6 жыл бұрын

Orange Bar Yay

@jordansmith9176

6 жыл бұрын

Shenzi is the leader of the Hyenas, which is what I meant. Bonzai is second-in-command. If you Google it, they're known as "Shenzi's Clan." This is what I was referring to, because the girl who played Bonzai liked to try to say "WE'RE the leaders," when, in fact, that's false. (It wouldn't have mattered at all to me if the girl hadn't constantly tried to one-up me while also being completely wrong about EVERYTHING she tried to "help" me with)

@anneblackwood9013

6 жыл бұрын

Jordan Smith Yeah okay but she's not that much of a larger character just saying

One time I had this huge flowy dress, and there was this moving set piece that had some trees and fake plants on it and in the middle of this super romantic scene my dress got caught on the tree branch! It would be fine except that set pierce was supposed to MOVE OFF THE STAGE during that scene!!! So I'm like confessing my love to this dude while simultaneously being dragged off the stage. Thankfully my friend was there and managed to unhook me before I was dragged completely off😂😂😂

Once during a show one of the leads had to spell out "team" and after each letter the extras would yell out the letter he just said. Well one night he says "t-e-m" and he didn't realize it till he got off stage and I go "Tem? Really?"

@espeaeon

6 жыл бұрын

Melina Sofía HELP I CANT STOP LAUGHING

@katiemelina

6 жыл бұрын

R.W. Yoho hahaha yeah. You must know your musicals

@rafael3817

6 жыл бұрын

Melina Sofía Charlie Brown? Edit: I didn’t see the comment where you answered haha

@user-rg4wh7ih3j

6 жыл бұрын

aw charlie brown!!! that was one of the first shows i ever did this makes me so nostalic aha

So the show was Wizard of Oz, and our leader of the monkeys was supposed to kind of fake sling Dorothy to where she’s sitting on the ground facing the Wicked Witch (this is after she’s been captured and taken to the Witch’s castle). Dorothy trips on a cord or something while falling and hits the stage way harder than she’s supposed to, making it look like the leader of the monkeys THREW HER VICIOUSLY ACROSS THE STAGE. This was a school musical, so we all look to the back of the audience where our teacher/director is manning the soundboard, and she’s gripping the front of it with white knuckles, looking like she was going to murder the poor kid. In the same show, our Dorothy had a little mishap where she misstepped and fell off of the stage during Somewhere Over the Rainbow. In case you’re wondering, I played Toto.

At my middle school, we did a production of Into the Woods, and we had a mic mishap on opening night. The guy who played Rapunzel's Prince realized his mic wasn't turned on. At ALL. So, after he virtually screams Agony, he runs to our mic girl and mimes the situation. After the mic is fixed, the first thing he says (and does) on mic, for all the audience to hear is "ACHOOOOOO"and immediately fall, giving MAJOR feedback. Right. In. The. Middle. Of. It. Takes. Two. So us backstage are attempting not to laugh while the poor Baker and Baker's Wife try to distract the audience from the clear sneeze. 'Cause what can you do with a clumsy prince with allergies. 👌

I came here after crying over Wicked videos. You handled that situation amazingly! I wish i could of seen the show

Girl!! Oh I feel your pain with the ladder!!! My freshman year I had to go up into the catwalks and it was like a 20ft ladder and I was terrified but had to quickly over come that fear and now I go up it like it’s no big deal. Others look at me and are like “how can you do that?!”. Congrats to your success for opening weekend, excited to hear what the rest of the shows have in store!

@anneblackwood9013

6 жыл бұрын

Jackie Marie I was in the Pajama Game once, and I had to wear a loose skirt. At one point, during a song, me and one other girl had to run offstage, run up a steep ladder, and bang on a door from up there while singing the hardest part of the song. On one rehearsal, it was really windy, and I started to trip in my skirt, meaning I just barely saved myself from tumbling off the ladder, and in doing so, my skirt flew up. Good thing no one saw.

@Jackiehansa

6 жыл бұрын

One time I did this Civil War Reenactment play and I had to wear like this big poofy dress. So my teacher made me do this dance with the professional line dancers or whatever we were doing. Funny thing was, I forgot my hoop skirt at home so I was just wear the pig heavy skirt with really thick material. Underneath, I only had a bathing suit on (don't ask, it was hot outside) the dress kept slipping and eventually, I decided not to care because I had to keep grabbing peoples hands and spinning in circles. By the end of the dance, my dress was between my ankles, some of these people take the accuracy of this event VERY seriously and were NOT happy with me... but me and my friends were in hysterics!!

IS THAT AN AVENUE Q SHIRT

@ChrisColemanMagicMan

6 жыл бұрын

Emerson Crutcher omg yes! My favorite show

I was literally watching some of your other Bedtime Stories videos before this video even came out. Am I psychic??? Did I somehow miraculously know that Katherine would post yet another Bedtime Stories today?!

Literally my favourite series on your channel

I’m 5’2, too! Two too. Tutu.

Last time I was this early, J.D was still alive.

@abi.r0y2008

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t make me cry or I’ll throw my librettos at u

@orls216

3 жыл бұрын

And Heather chandler and Kurt and ram lol

I always look forward to your videos and you’re such an inspiration and role model for me. Also like 50% of my theatre knowledge has come from you so thank you so much!! I wish I could see your performance and I hope you’re having a wonderful day!!! ❤️

During a show our main automatic spotlights started flashing random colors mid show and everyone was freaking out backstage and there was nothing we could do to fix it

This is why I wake up on every "Theater Thursday" plus the bonus videos throughout the week!

@anneblackwood9013

6 жыл бұрын

katy goodrich *theatre

aaaah, a good old costume malfunction, gotta love those! This isn’t really a costume malfunction but during one show I had to stand in for an actor who dislocated her knee before she went on for a scene and I went out with the map I was hiding the script behind upside down, and accidentally had the thickest southern accent I’ve ever heard come out of my mouth lol (also wish me some luck theater thursday fam, i've got 3 college auditions and a musical audition all in the span of 6 days starting next week! wheeee!)

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A NEW BEDTIME STORIES SINCE FOREVER THEY’RE MY FAVORITE I LOVE YOU! 💕💕

Gotta love live theatre and wardrobe malfunctions! I was recently in the San Francisco area premiere of Bullets Over Broadway and one of the scenes involved me wearing a giant hot dog costume (look up the song I Want a Hot Dog For My Roll for context), and the costume required us guys to wear no pants underneath, and multiple shows I could feel the suit riding up to the point where I had to position my legs in such a way that it would stay down and not expose my undergarments to the audience. Crisis averted.

First👏we👏take👏over👏broadway👏AND👏THEN👏THE👏WORLD👏👏👏

I’m a sweaty performer as well. When I had to go into a trap door as TWWOTW from Wizard Of Oz, my dress had places where it could detach and re-attach since the witch is literally everywhere during the show. I had to strip my crinoline, skirt of my dress, and my heels off in 30 seconds. I had people that would help me get the thing back on, but nobody was around to help me get the skirts off, except for our sparkly choreographer... we went from being friends, to really close best friend in about 5 minutes

I just got back from rehearsal and this is exactly what I need ☺️

One time when my stage school put on Joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat, I was playing Simeon and there’s this part of the song who’s the thief when were all dancing and one of the other brothers slips on the scarf wrapped around her waist which is really long and falls flat on her face. She was alright but all of us on her side of the stage (including her) couldn’t stop laughing.

@sorchamaeve4491

6 жыл бұрын

Also during who’s the thief when the golden goblet thing falls out of Benjamin’s bag, it completely broke in half

i was so scared youd get super busy w the show and uploads would be poopy buT THIS WAS BRILLIANT AHHHHH

Katherine I have a story! My sister and I saw Rent this past summer and it was FANTASTIC. The only problem (that i noticed) was that Maureen's jeans had completely ripped during La Vie Bohem. It was so cool, though, to see her and two ensemble members gathering and fixing everything while staying in character. And they somehow got it (mostly) fixed before the reprise! This is why I love theatre. Mistakes happen and we always make it work. Love you so much!

Per usual with BEDTIME STORIES: Comment your show mishaps below!!!

@emiliafeaster8495

6 жыл бұрын

Katherine Steele I was in Suessical, playing Gertrude. My costume was basically that I’d rush of stage, and attach feathers to my one little feather, on my dress. My dresser missed the dress and clipped it to the very bottom of my dress. I walked awkwardly on stage, and it apperently was too much wait to handle. So the bottom of my dress *teared*. I was mortified. Thankfully, Mayzie, came on, with some cloth, that she slowly placed on my... ripped dress. I cried backstage....

@meganodonnell1379

6 жыл бұрын

Directly after the song Time to Play in School of Rock, where I was in the child ensemble, I was in a scene as a teacher. Completely different costumes. Like literally nothing in common, nothing I could keep on. There was less than ten seconds to change. Most of the nights I was fine, but opening night, my dress as a teacher was I guess moved by a stage hand, so, in my tank top, tights, and booty shorts, I had to rush backstage only to find my dress side stage. I hauled it on in the five seconds I had left. I fixed my hair and put on my fake glasses, and walked onstage. Someone in the audience giggled. My dress was on inside out. And it was one of those dresses with a little patch of fabric to hide clevage, so it was really obvious.

@YutasTrapQueen

6 жыл бұрын

This isn't a mishap of mine but still very funny. And, it's kinda long. Here we go. So I am in marching band and we thankfully made State. Unfortunately, state competition was the same night as the day after opening. So my understudy went on and there's a scene where "Jamie" grabs the bag of dismembered body parts (props for later scenes) and runs offstage after "Sal". Well, as my understudy runs offstage, she hits. The giant 6 foot tombstone in the middle of the stage. It falls over, hits the stage loudly, and cracks in half. She freezes and stares into the audience but another cast member (I wasn't there I only watched the video) says "quite a thunderstorm" from backstage and the audience burst into laughter. She runs offstage, gets out of costume, calls me from the dressing room IN TEARS. Let me remind you I just conducted a full marching and was on the way home. (we got tenth in state thanks for asking) I get there in time for the second act only to see another cast member onstage, stuffed into which I later found out was my costume (I'm a size 0 while she's easily a size 8) onstage with a script. I went on the next day and for the rest of the run (it was only a week) and it goes on without a hitch.

@lounytoon9444

6 жыл бұрын

I was playing Nicely Nicely Johnson in Guys and dolls and during sit down your rocking the boat my shirt popped the buttons and completely showed off my tights, my bra and my mic pack. It was interesting.

@Kath_Steele

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Allison-- not quite sure what you mean by that. Can you clarify? :)

In our school production of Beauty in the beast, in the very first song Belle is supposed to go and sit on a well. It was made out of paper so to make sure she didn't fell right through we had to put a little stool underneath where she had to sit, and we didn't really had a stage crew so a friend and I got 'assigned' to put the little stool underneath the well before the show. As you can probably guess, in our last show we forgot to put the stool there and Belle fell through the well, she just kept on singing like nothing happened but the whole ensemble (including me) was laughing so hard while singing it was so embarrassing and funny at the same time but I felt so guilty afterwards.

Congrats on ur role! My school did into the woods and I was bakers wife. One mishap we had was where I couldn’t find my baby doll for act two😬 legit we were frantic so I just grabbed this blanket and pretended it was a baby lol

Recently I finished up a production of Willy Wonka Jr at my school where I played Grandma Georgina and an Oompa Loompa. At one of the dress rehearsals the person playing Wonka completely messed up his part in a Chew It. It’s at the part where he is taunting Violet with the gum and he tells her “pea soup roast beef and blueberry ice cream.. blueberry is the nicest ice cream” exCEPT he says strawberry instead of blueberry, and from the video feed backstage I could see all the actors trying so hard not to laugh. We have never let Wonka live this one down

Storytime: I was in a production of the Lion King Jr last year and i played Rafiki. The whole production was really fun and it was great to perform, but on the night of one of our shows, Zazu completely missed their cue to go onstage. It was during that scene where the hyenas close in on Simba, Nala and Zazu in the elephant graveyard, and Zazu’s kind of important as he tries to convince the hyenas not to eat them and gets a bit beat up by them. So the actors for Simba and Nala completely stepped up and just straight improved for a three or four minute scene, trying to incorporate Zazus lines. I don’t think Zazu was on stage at all for that scene, but i later asked people if they noticed anything different and no one did.

Kath, thank you! I feel like absolute garbage right now and all I've been wanting is for this video to come out! Can't wait to watch it right now ❤️❤️❤️

Also kath you should do start a blog channel! that would be so awesome and cool! but i do understand that you are prob super busy:( but ily!

Yay! A new video! I was waiting for thisssss

Yasss more bedtime stories! I love this series on your channel!

I'm so excited for this. I love these videos so much and almost screamed when I saw you posted it. I'm coming to into the woods soon. Love you

Loved this series !! Can't wait to see you next Friday !!

Hi! My name is Laura and and the other day I asked my mom if I could be an actor (I act in school theater plays) and she said yes! Thank you so much for making that video and I can't wait to see how the future will hold for me!! I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SM ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I love this series. Kath you are amazing, thank you for everything your doing. I wish you all the happiness and greatness that’s coming your way 💕

Oh my gosh I loooovvveee your channel Katherine! I look forward to your videos they're one of the highlights of my day!

I love Bedtime stories!!!!!

6:30 Me, who’s currently playing The Witch, who has never even heard of this: 👁👄👁

I think one of the worst mishaps in one of my shows (didn't involve me luckily) but when I was a freshman we did the play Arcenic and Old Lace. Well during a scene Mortimer is supposed to be on stage alone doing some kind of lines. And he says something and me and my friend who played Elaine were following along in the book and we were really because he just stops dead in the middle of the page. This is opening night of the show and we hadn't messed up entrances/exits since like first night of tech week. Well he's waiting around on stage and goes to the phone to make one of the mortimer phone lines up. And when nothing happens still he gets up leaves the entire fucking stage and comes at me and my friend. Remember we're 14 and this 18 year old is just screaming and swearing at her about how she needs to get her ass on stage (This boy had done a ton of shit in preceding weeks to make us scared too including straight up leaving the theatre halfway through a dress rehearsal and nearly getting kicked out of the play). We grab his arm and show him the script that says she doesn't come on stage for another 3 pages. And he has to get the aunts on stage and have a conversation with them. Our stage was left empty for a good minute and a half while we worked this out and either we were really lucky and had amazing sound people who immedietely switched his mic off or he did himself or we didn't have mics but luckily only our director heard him yelling and swearing at us. The next night the aunts mortimer and elaine all got together and really went over all their entrance lines and knew to come in if there was dead time between certain lines. It was just terror induced panic the whole way through XD

YESSSSSS I’ve been waiting for part 6! I love bedtime stories videos!!!

Love you so much, can't wait for a new show mishaps! Also, finally started listening to The Phantom of the Opera, so amazing!

I’m happy every Thursday cuz I get to see your vids!!!!

Yay! Love this series.

I’VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR A NEW VIDEO💓💓

@TimidTracker

6 жыл бұрын

Anson Chan same I've waited all day for my theater Thursday video! Worth it!!

i LOVEEE your avenue q shirt and little mermaid mug i love both of the shows with a passion

Yessss I love these videos!!!! I would love to see some “vocal coach” style videos sometime!!!!!! You look lovely💕

i LOVE these! also i had a school musical audition today for little shop of horrors and i’m kinda still anxious about it! your videos always make me feel better! ILY❤️

i’ve been waiting for another one of these! i just got cast in my school’s production of godspell as a chorus member and these easy my fears of messing up.

Just the fact that you're wearing an Avenue Q shirt makes me so happy!!

Everyone in my house is asleep and I had to stifle myself from laughing out loud during the last story! I hope all your future shows go well however and break a leg!

Love your mug lol! I drink tea out of a Disney mug too lol

@Kath_Steele

6 жыл бұрын

I COLLECT DISNEY MUGS AND I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

My all-time favorite mishap was during my school's production of Sound of Music. I played one of the kids and it was the ending scene in the abbey where the Nazis come looking for us, then they leave. Now what was SUPPOSED to happen was the sound booth would play a car driving away, we act scared, and then we all get up and go up the mountain and everything. But, during one of the shows, instead of the car, they played a doorbell. We try playing it off by continuing with the scene without mentioning it, which worked until all the kids (myself included) started laughing uncontrollably, but silently, for the rest of the scene. But what made it my favorite mishap is the director standing backstage during curtain call, with a completely straight face saying "ding dong, we're here to kidnap you"😂

Literally watching this in my pjs!!! I love your bedtime story vids!

I love your bedtime stories so much. Your channel is so great. Your videos make me so happy to watch. I'm an early teen and I have seen you as such an inspiration. I look forward to every Thursday when your videos come out. Your personality and passion for all things musical theatre have shaped what I aspire to be as a performer. With your great tips, I auditioned for Into the Woods recently and landed the role of Cinderella. Thank you so much for all that you do for the theatre thursday fam. I appreciate you so much! You have no idea how much you have impacted me.

YAAYYYY!!! I love these videos! Also that last one would have been terrifying! Tech crew saves the day again!!

I love you. I love how happy and joyful you are in your videos

Hey at some point could you do a video about dyed hair/tattoos etc for actors? :) ❤️❤️❤️

YEAH! Happy you made it to the shows!

Love you and your videos! I don't have much to say today since I shouldn't be awake at this hour, but keep slaying Katherine!

i recently played gertrude in seussical and there was a scene in the act 1 finale where i crossed in front of the nest and at this point i had my huge tail so when I got like halfway across the stage, the tail got stuck on the wheel of the nest so i’m pulling at it and i see the tech crew panicking backstage and i pulled really hard on the tail and it BROKE THE TAIL BROKE ON STAGE and i got off the stage and looked at the stage and there was a huge hunk of feathers on the stage and the crew spent most of intermission trying to get all the feathers out of the wheel

Just finished binge watching all of your Bedtime Stories videos and they are great! Last year, my schools production had a mishap too. We were doing Typecast (it was a middle school production) and in the scene where all of the characters are arguing because all of the parts were mixed up, the guy playing the gym teacher went a little overboard and pushes my friend, who was playing the slacker, to the ground. It was so hilarious that we were laughing on stage for a few minutes after the audience got over it. She wasn't hurt at all, but as young performers it was a little embarrassing. :)

I LOVE THE AVENUE Q TEE! I love you Kathrine! Stay amazing❤️

YES I HAVE BEEN WANTING YOU TO MAKE ONE OF THESE SINCE I STARTED WATCHING. I LOVE THESE VIDEOSSSS

In a production of Into the Woods I saw, jacks mic was on backstage during intermission and everyone in the audience heard him say, “One second I need to fix my lendorhosen,”

I CLICKED ON THIS VIDEO WAY TOO FAST! Also when are both you and Julia going on during the into the woods run? I wanna see both of you in the show!

YESSS BEDTIME STORIES! I love these so much

Omg I love your Avenue Q shirt like I’m living for it

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH. THANKS FOR CREATING THE BROADWAY FAM COMMUNITY! 💜💜💜

Y’all I am SO glad you posted this cause GIRL I got a GOOD ONE FOR YALL. So I just played Jan in grease and me and the pink ladies have a quick change from magic changes to the sleep over so my PJ’s were under my day wear.So it’s opening night and I’m changing like usual like a maniac and my pants feel WET.I got my WHOLE PERIOD OPENING NIGHT and I totally bled through my little pajama shorts.But I had like 4 seconds till the scene so I just flipped it around and tucked the stained part kinda into my butt crack (TMI But you gotta do what you gotta do) and I did the whole scene and “Freddy my love”like that and THANK GOD you couldn’t see it.After the show the costume ladies washed the pants and all was well.But lesson learned,ALWAYS WEAR A PAD/TAMPON WHILE PERFORMING

YES I NEED SOME MORE BEDTIME STORIES! I love ur Avenue Q tshirt! 💗

Yay!! I love Bedtime Stories! They make me happy to know I'm not alone with all of my theatre mess ups!! :)

AHHHH TOTALLY FREAKING OUT THIS IS AMAZING!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yay!!! I love this series!!!

These are my favorite!! I wish I could see the show!

I love this series sm!!!

Ugh these are my favorite type of videos☺️

Gotta love Katherine 💕

Hi Katherine I hope you know how loved and supported you are. You’re literal perfection. I love bed time stories. I love youuuu💞

@Kath_Steele

6 жыл бұрын

💘💘💘

AAAAAAHHHHHH THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY DAY WITH A NEW VID!! Also hope ur legs get better😁😁

God bless her snapchat

Ahhhh I’m the same with ladders!! Good vibes for the show

These are my FAV series on your channel tbh

I ADORE Show Mishap Bedtime Stories!!

Love your videos!!!!❤️

Katherine Steele !!! I nailed my audition and I am in best of Broadway: a medley of Broadway songs; and I AM IN AGONYYY I'm Rapunzel's Prince. Heh Lel. And I'm also Don in Good Morning from "Singing in the Rain" and I'm in Nicest Kids in Town, When I Grow Up, and finally... WE GO TOGETHER!!!

Now I'm a lot less nervous for my school's show in a couple of weeks, haha! Great video!

Oh my god these are hilarious!! These reminded me of my own stage mistakes from a recent production I was in that had me absolutely dying onstage. There was a scene where a girl came to ask about a letter from her fiancé who had recently died, and my character was paranoid that if anyone touched the letters with their hands they would catch the spanish flu and die, we decide to bake in the wood stove to kill the germs. This of course doesn't work and the letter catches on fire, and we had a gag where I was holding an egg timer, which went off just as the fire went out. This timer was the cue for most of our cast to come onstage, so it was important for it to work out. One night, however, the timer literally just fell apart in my hands, and there was nothing I could do to fix it, so I slammed it as hard as I could on the stove to make some kind of noise in place of the old cue, and somehow it worked. I played one of two gossipy, kind of bitchy telephone operators, and all of my scenes centred around fast paced, snappy dialogue, quite often having two separate conversations at the same time, overlapping each other. Needless to say, it took us the entire rehearsal process to nail the delivery and timing. However, about halfway through the run, my scene partner got a concussion and was unable to perform for two days. The show was not double cast, and we didn't have any kind of understudies, so our assistant director stood in for her. This was difficult enough, because he had to pick up the dialogue at the drop of a hat, as well as nail the blocking on basically his first try. The other issue was that the character was incredibly feminine, and the relationship between the two characters was the kind expected of two women, but our assistant director was male. So, the two characters went from "those gossips that run the telephones and sometimes yell at the farmers" to "that weird couple from the telephone office" Needless to say, it was a very interesting two shows.

Hey Katherine! I was in Into the Woods for my school play last year and I was Bakers Wife. I remember for one scene all the microphones were taken and I couldn’t get one on time so I just had to speak very loud so people could hear me. Luckily one minute into that scene the baker came and we shared a microphone😅

i was also in the lion king as nala in 6th grade and at every rehearsal i would try to get the simba to practice the handshake with me that we do when we meet again after so many years and i tried to get him to practice it the day of the show and he said no so of course on stage he got the handshake wrong and my mom keeps telling me that how much i’m made for broadway because 11 year old me somehow came up with improv never doing an improv exercise ever in my life and before we went backstage before the beginning of can you feel the love tonight i said, “we really need to work on our childhood handshake” and then we went backstage and we had to stay on opposite sides of the stage and i just stared at him like “I told you so” the whole time

Katherine I love all of your videos! I'm so sorry about the mishaps... When I was in my school's production of Spelling Bee as Leaf earlier this year, I was falling all over myself in Magic Foot. I don't know why, but everyone just made me look clumsy..they were all better dancers than me. And we had this section at the end of Pandemonium, where we would all go to different parts of the stage, and do a different dance. One night I forgot to move at the right time, got distracted and just stood there. Thankfully, no one seemed to notice, and random space outs are in character for Coney!

YAAAAAAYYYYY MORE BEDTIME STORIES!!!

YAY A BEDTIME STORIES VIDEO!!!