12 Actors' Most Embarrassing Moments On Stage

Winner, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
''I knocked myself out while on stage once. I ran across the stage and hit a wall. The audience thought it was hilarious.''

Nominee, Best Actress in a Play (Born Yesterday)
''My pants fell off one time. I was a dancer in The King and I in a community theater production and I had the final pose to do. I had on these diaper looking pants and they just dropped. I had little boxers on. I posed, picked them up, and posed again. Everyone laughed, they were with me, I mean, my pants fell, you might as well join in.''

Past nominee, pictured with Hugh Jackman
''As I lifted [a costar], with my posterior aimed at the audience, I passed gas, in an explosive form.''

Nominee, Best Actress in a Musical (The People in the Picture)
''I was 17. One of the falsies that was inside of my bathing suit costume that I was supposed to look voluptuous in (and I wasn't) started to slip up and up and up, and suddenly I looked down and I had three breasts.''

Winner, Best Actor in a Musical (Catch Me if You Can)
''It has to be Wicked. Flying in on a rope like Errol Flynn in tight white pants. I bent over, ripped my pants up the back.''

Nominee, Best Featured Actress in a Musical (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
''I was playing Gypsy and the curtain closes and I'm practically nude because I just stripped off a skirt, and my foot gets stuck in the curtain, and all of a sudden I fall over and I've got two feet just sticking out of the closed curtain. It was pretty embarrassing. ''

''My first Broadway show was a show called Zorba with Anthony Quinn and we had poles. I was a dancer. And one night Chita Rivera was in the audience, who was my idol, and we all were so nervous we dropped our poles while we were dancing.''

Nominee, Best Actress in a Play (Brief Encounter)
''There was a scene when I had to swing on a chandelier and I got my heel caught in my dress and I almost fell on my face. And Sarah Jessica Parker was in the audience and I thought, this would just be my luck to fall in front of someone so beautifully composed and extraordinary.''

Winner, Best Actress in a Musical (Anything Goes)
''I lost my underwear during Thoroughly Modern Millie. I hit my final pose and my underwear fell down. They were like little tap shorts.''

Nominee, Best Actor in a Musical (The Book of Mormon)
''I was doing a production of Fiddler on the Roof in high school, and I didn't realize my zipper was open the entire first act.''

Nominee, Best Actress in a Musical (Sister Act)
''[During the London run] I get up in the second act to sing 'Bless Our Show' and all of the lines completely went away. I said something like 'Bless our schmoo-jo.' I just started shaking. It was the most terrible moment in my life.''

Winner, Best Featured Actor in a Play (The Normal Heart)
''I was in Tom Sawyer in sixth grade. I was so nervous that I went to pee right before. You know that thing 'No matter how you shake and dance, the last drop's always in your pants?' I peed a little bit in my overalls.''