| Here's a service that I was not a part of but I have heard about:
Apparently during one protestant rendition of the Passion, the guy playing Jesus got sick for one of the performances and was unable to attend. The understudy was then promoted and stepped in to play the part.
Since the understudy was also the propsmaster for the show, someone else had to step in to be the propsmaster.
Everything was going fine until the scene where Jesus is dying on the cross, and one of the Romans is supposed to stab him with a spear.
The problem is that the new propsmaster couldn't find the retractable spear that had been used throughout the show, so he just put another play-spear in its place, but neglected to tell the 'Roman' about the change.
So when the Roman plunges the spear into Jesus who's tied to a cross hanging above the entire congragation, the bleeding man screams at the top of his lungs "Jesus Christ I've been stabbed!" |