"It was evident I was backing up and moving in the direction to exit the stage for at least 30 to 40 feet and it is plain to see I had no clue this prop was descending. For God sake, they have at least a five second delay to prevent the airing of unapproved expletives and nudity!"
"Had no clue." Did the set not descend at the dress rehearsal?
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Well you see everyone move out of the way, and Brett just stands there waving at the audience and THEN decides to move. And yes, that HAD to be rehearsed with the sets and all
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...watching The Fortune Cookie on TCM right now....maybe Brett should hire Matthau!! LOL!
No, really, I've seen a couple near fatal "accidents" on the Bway stage, notably Nick & Nora, and some magic type show years ago when Gregory Peck's daughter almost got severely injured. Can't remember the details??
I will say that Bret comes off a bit more sympathetic by not blaming anyone in particular but he needs to say that he was drunk or high or lip syncing or about to drop trou, or blinded by Angela's glow. He is generating his own press.
Considering this is probably the most press Bret Michaels has gotten in years, I'm almost impressed at the good humor and restraint he's shown in his response to the incident, because I would have expected him to milk it a lot more.
However, the reason he didn't notice the fly dropping at rehearsal is because he either wasn't paying attention to anything going on around him or sent a stand-in. The rehearsal performance of the opening number, which they ran through twice, went perfectly smoothly.
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And the piece flying in is called a SET PIECE, not a PROP.
GD whiner.
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Someone was there for the second. I thought it was him but maybe not. Whoever was there was lipsynching, so at least there was some consistency to the actual performance.
If he had been at a rehearsal, he would have known.
period.
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Sigh. He was merely pointing out there are contingency plans for all sorts of things. Like a 5-second delay to bleep swears and cut away when there are wardrobe malfunctions. So, he is saying he is surprised that the descending wall was apparently unstoppable. That is all.
For what its worth... I do agree with him that someone should have been monitoring the lowering of the drop and slowed it down or stopped it completely seeing that Bret Michaels was heading towards it. His beef is just that -- that no one did off-stage was noticed that an obvious accident was about to take place.
They can have a 5-second delay to prevent airing an accidental expletive slip or flash of nudity but they can't have someone monitoring set pieces being rolled on stage or raised and lowered?
I agree with him on that.
Also, he does take responsibility for not seeing the set piece coming down as it was out of his sight-line -- due to his cowboy hat, obviously. Even someone with a simple baseball cap wouldn't have been able to see that set piece coming down unless they were looking up. He was looking straight forward.
Re: the rehearsal...to try to set this straight once and for all...
Before they started the actual run-through, they ran-through/rehearsed the opening number, stopping to work on the finale. Bret was not there for that part. (He actually didn't even have a stand-in, it was pretty weird watching the Rock of Ages number with two groups on the right and left, and thinking...shouldn't someone be in the center?)
Anyway, then they finished work on the opening, and said now they will start the run-through beginning with the opening. Bret was there for that one.
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