There's a great moment in the documentary "A Wink and a Smile" in which Miss Indigo Blue talks to her Burlesque 101 class about things that could potentially go wrong onstage. As a lifetime performer, believe me, I'm well aware of how easily things can go wrong.
Well, Thursday night, we experienced this firsthand. First off, during my solo, I couldn't get my first glove removed and finally resorted to using my teeth, leaving black lipstick on part of my white costume. Not bad, not too noticeable (well, it was to me), but could have been an omen of things to come. When we debuted our new group number, it seems the burlesque gods smote us with a plague of technical glitches: tear away pants that didn't tear away, missed choreography, costumes ALMOST revealing more than they were meant to, bras catching on fishnets, and so on. Afterwards, we all said "WTF??" But we had fun and we all hit the ending choreography just fine. Afterwards, people told us how much they loved the new number. Yep, we MEANT to do it that way. :)
All you can do is just keep going and hope for the best the next time around.
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