![]() ![]() Now there's just this kind of frightening roar that comes from the audience every time there's a mistake. People are howling with laughter at every mistake.Īnd now any small mistake just takes on these- any instigation for laughter is just enough for this audience. There are just belly laughs rolling up to the stage from the audience. At this point, I mean, the actors are just falling apart. And with that, she walked off the stage, sort of motioning her arms like you would do the swim, the dance in 1965. She sort of said, on second thought, maybe I can swim. And she ad libbed as best she could, as I remember. So now there is this big loop of wire hanging in front of the stage, and there's Wendy holding the kite. And the hook goes zinging up into the lights and catches. And when she yanks on it, it pops off the flying apparatus. So she has to step out into the water that she's just told us is filled with crocodiles to grab it. But the flying apparatus people can't quite get it close enough to her to reach. She's standing on this little papier-maché hill. Well, of course, the kite is attached to the flying apparatus line. And she spots a kite that's flying by, and she's supposed to grab it and attach it to her back and fly off. Then another thing that happened was later on in this scene, if you remember, Wendy gets trapped on an island. They have gotten off to a very bad start. And there's that weird tension of being in the audience thinking, oh, oh my goodness. We just all sat there sort of holding our breath. But like I say, the audience was still in this very forgiving mode.Īnd no one said a word. It was hard to watch because, as you can tell, it's an incredibly funny moment. Suddenly, he would just plummet back down to the stage and be caught up just before he hit the floor. And then, of course, he's jerked up in the air a little bit and often a little too high so that he's suddenly sort of in the workings. And it's clear that he's hurt.Īnd he comes off of it sort of a little dazed. And there's a real sense of pain, and gripping of the chair, and white-knuckledness as the kid suddenly does just an enormous splat into the wardrobe. And the audience sort of sees this coming. ![]()
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