In theater troupes, as in any other collective, funny stories happen. Once told to someone, the actor’s tales are overgrown with new details, go "to the people", where they scatter into jokes and quotes. Interestingly, funny cases happen not only with comedians, but also with tragedians. This article contains interesting acting stories, the list of names of which is given below:
- Singing Santa Claus.
- Entrance to the window - exit to the fireplace.
- Desdemona's legs.
- Radio.
- Vaseline.
- Konstantin Gavrilovich hanged himself ... and shot himself.
- Both for gas and for heat.
- Unsuccessful attempt.
- Do not awaken talent in a child. (Actor tales with the participation of Leonid Bykov).
- A medallionless game.
Interesting stories that happened to the actors were collected by traveler and writer Sergey Varsonofev. The actor’s stories in his presentation are written in easy language and are quite suitable for reading in a boring winter evening.
Singing Santa Claus
New Year's time for the artist is a great opportunity to earn extra money. Sometimes you can even put together a little capital on this. One actor once threw a job - to amuse the children of one oligarch for eight hundred US dollars. The actor stepped on the throat of professional pride and put on the proposed New Year's grandfather costume. Everyone was happy: the children of the rich and he himself, the offspring of a neighbor, servants, and Santa Claus himself, who received his fee at the end of the holiday.
As it turned out, the new Russian was just starting to have fun and asked his grandfather to continue his performance, but without children. The tired actor complied with the request, although he did not really want it. The businessman drank another glass of cognac and asked the artist to sing the song "Vasya's dad is strong in mathematics." More actor never agreed to such part-time jobs. The new Russian had to sing a song a good hundred times, to corns in the tongue.
Entrance to the window - exit to the fireplace
Among acting stories and funny stories, this is one of the most memorable. Once a novice actor was first entrusted to play in the play with the master. The role was small and almost without words. At rehearsals, the guy worked out as it should. The premiere day has come. The stage is full of scenery, the performance has begun. The young extras were terribly worried - the master on stage, the hall was full. In a fainting state, he comes out, sees the astonished face of the venerable actor and realizes that he made some kind of oversight.
Having quickly spoken his words, the beginner promptly leaves the stage. After the premiere, the master calls barely alive from the excitement of the extras to his dressing room and thoughtfully says: “Well, how so, young man! You almost broke the premiere! Not only did you enter the window, you also left the fireplace! .." .
Desdemona Legs
The famous Papazyan played Othello in a small town theater. The role of Desdemona went to a young actress, pretty and talented, but inexperienced.
The strangulation episode is incorrect. A stunning four-poster bed stands on stage. Papazyan sits on the edge, throws back the blanket and sees his legs.
Puzzled Othello propped his chin with his fist and sighed. Desdemona, realizing that she had made a mistake, imperceptibly, like a snake, turned over under a blanket. Papazyan, not noticing the girl’s maneuver, decided to make a second run. Walking slowly along the bed, he threw back the blanket on the other side and saw ... legs! The performance after this had to be interrupted until the actors came to their senses from laughter.
Queen of Comedy - Faina Ranevskaya
Talking about funny acting tales, one can not help but recall the most striking comedic actress. In the movies, she most often got supporting roles. However, she played in such a way that the main characters faded before her talent. After the stories of the actor’s story, a funny incident in life, the reviews about Ranevskaya were the most flattering, and the people sorted her phrases into quotes. Faina Georgievna never climbed into a pocket for a word and was truly an actress with great talent. Here is a wonderful funny acting bike with her participation.
Radio
Once Faina Georgievna was invited to record the program. Ranevskaya with her characteristic charisma began to say something with enthusiasm. Suddenly the recording was stopped. Ranevskaya, unhappy that she was interrupted, cried out: "How do you understand this, my dear?" The presenter tactfully explained that Faina Georgievna incorrectly emphasized the word "phenomenon". The host believed that it was necessary to speak not a phenomenon, but a phenomenon.
Ranevskaya thought for a few seconds and agreed. The recording began again and then she defiantly says: "Phenomenon, phenomenon, and again phenomenon! And whoever wants to speak the phenomenon, let him go in the ass!"
Petroleum jelly
The late Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov was famous for his love for the draws of his colleagues. The actors knew about it and were a little afraid of it, but it was impossible to avoid a joke. The only exception was Evgeny Evstigneev. Thanks to intuition, he often dodged jokes or turned them to his advantage.
Once on the set of a film about the Bolsheviks, the actors starred together. Evstigneev played an important party worker, and Tabakov played a romantic youth. According to the script, they shake hands when they meet. Tabakov, anticipating Hochma, generously smeared his right hand with Vaseline and offered it to Evstigneev. The film crew, who knew about the plan of the merry fellow, stood still. All followed the reaction of the "Bolshevik". Evstigneev, without flinching a muscle on his face, pressed Tabakov to himself and began to pathetically pat him on the head with a palm stained with petroleum jelly.
Konstantin Gavrilovich hanged himself and shot himself
In the theater was the play "The Seagull", according to Chekhov. According to the plan of Anton Pavlovich, a shot sounds at the end. A doctor should go on stage and announce that the main character committed suicide by firing a pistol.
Dorn comes out from behind the curtains and freezes in anticipation of a shot. A minute passes, another. There is no shot. The pause dragged on. The actor, realizing that it’s time to save the situation, thoughtfully says: "The fact is that Konstantin Gavrilovich hanged himself."
As soon as he said these words, a deafening shot rang out. Dorn hesitated, adding: "And shot himself." The hall exploded in laughter.
Both for gas and for heat
In "Contemporary" was the play "Decembrists." In the role of the emperor, the unsurpassed Oleg Efremov. In the middle of the play, Nikolai the First had to say: "I am responsible for everything and for everyone." But he made a mistake and instead of this phrase said: "I am responsible for everything and for the world."
Efremov’s partner, master of improvisation Evgeny Evstigneev, instantly orientated: “Well, then both for heat and gas, Your Imperial Majesty”.
Unsuccessful attempt
The actor’s bike about the trampoline has been around for a long time, but still as relevant as before.
Provincial theater, tour of the capital's troupe. Give the "Thunderstorm" Ostrovsky. Everyone who is familiar with the work remembers the scene in which Katerina rushes into the river to take her own account of life. In the theater, the actress laid mats so as not to hurt herself. But no mattresses were found in the district recreation center. The administration suggested falling on a trampoline. Nothing to do, I had to agree. In a hurry, they forgot to warn the actress, who plays the role of Katerina.
An unsuspecting girl with a tragic groan falls onto the trampoline, like a ball, pushes away from him and reappears in front of the audience. Screaming in surprise, the actress again "falls into the river", then again takes off to the public. And here one of the actors standing on stage profoundly utters: "Yes ... Mother Volga does not accept."
Actors: Leonid Bykov
A bright cinema star, Bykov is familiar to viewers in the roles of Maxim Perepelitsy in the film of the same name and captain Titarenko in the film "Only Old Men Go into Battle". This amazing actor lived a short but intense creative life. Funny incidents often happened to him. Theatrical and acting tales with his participation will not be forgotten by fans of the artist for a long time.
Do not awaken talent in a child
Some parents so much want fame that they torment their children endlessly, trying to fashion from them what they themselves could not achieve. The hired teachers are used, assurances of those around that the child is gifted.
Leonid Fedorovich was acquainted with one such family. Once again he went to visit. The hostess began to praise her daughter, assuring her that the talent of an actress of a dramatic plan was napping in her. The woman said: "Well, look, Leonid, isn’t it dramatic talent dormant in the girl?"
Then the actor could not resist the stinging remark: "Mother, please try not to wake him."
Medallionless game
The maestro was invited to the premiere. The theater was small, staged mainly avant-garde performances. In one of them, an actor was involved who did not have other virtues except rich parents. Thanks to their connections, the actor played there. Afraid of angering influential relatives, other members of the troupe were afraid to tell the actor about a bad game, and Bykov did not say anything.
At the premiere, the major himself decided to find out the opinion of the famous artist about his game. Bykov, not wanting to bustle, replied: "As an actor, you look like an official Goskino Bolshakova." The actor exclaimed: "But Bolshakov was not an artist." Bykov agreed: "That's it."
The life of the great actor tragically ended in early April 1979. A car accident on the Minsk-Kiev highway (the actor was driving from the dacha) did not leave Bykov a chance. A tractor rode slowly before the artist’s Volga, so he went to overtake. A collision with a truck occurred in the oncoming lane, even the seat belt did not save Bykov. Until the last moment, Leonid Fedorovich slowed down, trying to prevent a catastrophe. An examination found that the truck driver was not guilty of an accident. The cause, most likely, was Bykov's fatigue. The actor was only 50 years old.