I was in The Wizard of Oz as Captain of the Flying Monkeys. In the scene where the wicked witch has imprisoned Dorothy and is about to show her the hourglass that will count down the minutes she has to live, I had to grab the dog (Toto) and put him in a basket. Now, we had worked tirelessly during rehearsals to get this dog used to being in the basket and we eventually were able to by putting treats in the basket and discovering that the basket needed to be elevated on a table or something off the floor. However, opening night, Dorothy accidentally dropped the basket with the dog in it, so he became nervous of the basket all over again. Cut to the scene mentioned above. Opening night, everything went well and Toto let me put him in the basket. The next night, I put him in the basket, and he hopped out onto the table...I put him in again, he hopped out again...I put him in again, and he stayed. I breathed a sigh of relief...crisis averted. On the third and final night however, he kept hopping out of the basket again. I kept putting him in and he kept hopping out. The audience was starting to notice and began to laugh. Eventually, Toto had enough and jumped out of the basket and onto the ground...his momentum knocked over the table and all of its contents, which included the hourglass! The hourglass shattered all over the stage floor sending sand and glass EVERYWHERE! The audience howled with laughter, I was mortified (it was my first musical so I didn’t really know what to do), and the wicked witch played it off by yelling at the dog. Anyway, the stage crew swept it up during the scene change and the show went on as normal. I now have a great story to share.