me getting tickled during a performance. M/F

[tklishkat88]

So I was involved in this musical a few years ago called "Company" by Stephen Sondheim. I played the character Sarah, and during one of my scenes there was a choreographed "fight" between my character's husband and myself. When I say fight, basically Sarah was talking about how she was taking Karate lessons and then her husband wanted her to show him some of her moves and they wind up wrestling with each other. During the rehearsal process the cast got really close. Actors are always very touchy feely, and at one rehearsal the guy who was playing my husband was giving me a massage. I don't handle massages very well once they get below like the middle of my shoulders because my back is really ticklish, and on the sides are my ribs and sides, so obviously I can't handle it there. So he is giving me a massage and figures out very quick that I'm extremely ticklish. Well he thought the night of our final dress rehearsal to change some choreography. We go to the position where I was face down and he was sitting on my butt basically. He decided to dig into my sides, sending me into a bucking, cackling mess. Then he continued and starting tickling the back of my thighs which is the most ticklish part of my body, and I went into that desperate silent laughter mode. It went on for probably 30 seconds and finally he stopped, and I continued on with our choreography, very weakly I must say. I felt bad because I found out later that the other guy on stage with us was just kind of standing there awkwardly not knowing what to do. Well we got to the part at the end of the run where the director gives us notes, and he was like " Well the change in choreography was different". Then he preceded to state that he loved the "genuine love" between the two characters at that moment, and wanted to keep it for the run of the show. So we put this show on for 3 weeks, and each performance I had to go through the same torment (including the awful back of thigh silent laughter). I won't lie and say I didn't like it haha! It was tons of fun, and me and the guy who I played opposite are really great friends still today, and yes he still tickles me like crazy every chance he gets. That's why I keep him around 😉.

Hope you enjoyed it!
Kat

 

[milagros317]

I enjoyed your story and would have enjoyed watching that performance, too. 😀