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From Annie Query:

While I was working on Noises Off, we decided to prank the other cast (Guys and Dolls) by stealing their producer (Adam Seigel). At that time, the play was having rehearsals in 917 of the Campus Center, and the musical happened to be down in the Student Union Ballroom. The Noises cast and rehearsal team bound Adam's hands and feet and blindfolded him. We then carried him, in the elevator, through the Campus Center, and all the way down to the SUB on our shoulders. Nobody in the campus center bothered to stop us from carrying poor Adam through the building. We then barged into the SUB and dropped off Adam in the middle of their rehearsal and proceeded to run around the room screaming before we exited and ran back upstairs. We had one casualty, however, when one of their cast members (a very strong Matt Hicks) swooped up one of our cast members (a very small Brian Gerard) and took him hostage. Needless to say, it was a crazy night.

From Ari M. Teplitz:

During my freshman and sophomore year, the Guild had this tradition of the two casts playing pranks on each other, each getting one shot. I was the Producer for The Passion of Dracula, and that cast was exceedingly creative. Usually these tricks consisted of the other cast disturbing rehearsal and just taking someone out of the room. But we got the cast of Tommy good.  We bought 16 cans of silly string, and went down to Earthfoods to get them back. As we checked out the scene we waited until they were being counted in for one of the dances, and attacked. We poured silly string all over the place.   I think the most fun was the look on an unnamed stage manager's face who was very angry. Its ok, a couple weeks later that same stage manager forgot to plug in the strobe light and could not figure out why it did not work.

From Gordon Bedford:

When I was a sophomore, a bunch of us decided to do Halloween as Batman villians, but no one was Batman.. we all made our own costumes

Jen Bean - Catwoman
Harry Lacoste - Joker
Adam Seigel - Riddler
Gordon Bedford - Mr. Freeze
Evan Hickok - Two Face
Brian Girard - The Penguin
Denise Brown - Posoin Ivy (I think)

I shaved my head and coated it with silver face paint along with a deep blue blazer, tubes stuck to my neck, black boots and blue scrubs. I got really sick because:

A) it was october and cold
B) my freshly shaven head wasn't used to the October Cold
C) my pores were all covered with silver face paint
D) I drank. A lot

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    For Angels in America, Adam Seigel, Sue Boyle, and Jen Bean were the angels that ascend at the end of the show. they wore body stockings which were fairly see-through.. They were neked b'neath, 'cept for their skivvies. and as we all know, much to my delight, sheer clothes as such call for thongs to avoid a panty line. They looked ridiculous, but the best part was that they went to Frederick's of Hollywood's to get thongs for the whole cast! One had an elephant trunk for the guy, another played music, mine was leopard print and I still have it.

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    So one time while I was living at 1192, the doorknob to the backdoor became no longer attached to the door. One night, Adam Seigel was dared to run naked from 88 Townhouses, snatch the doorknob and bring it back. And he did. Naked.

From Denise Brown:

Poor Adam Seigel. A lot seemed to have happened to him during our UMTG years together...I was the choreographer for The Wiz that year where I had an amazing cast of dancers and non-dancers, whom I was adament about getting to dance. During Evilene's number (crazy Kim-gotta love that girl!), Adam was so full of energy that as he was so exited doing his movement he literally placed his foot in the bucket nearest to the leg of the wing and VROOM, slid right off stage, bucket and all. It is extremely funny when you put it in slo-mo. I just discovered this site and it is sort of a nostalgic adventure to peruse through it. And yes Gordon, I was Poison Ivy. We won best costumes too! What was our prize??? Harry was so intense about those costumes. I have a picture of all of us outside the Town Hall in Amherst somewhere.

From Brian Woods:

    I did indeed work on Noises Off; (1991) we did it in Bowker, and it was also a two-story rotating set. On the first floor, we had a section of the wall that could be removed and had a thin film of material in its place so the audience could see the "performance" on the on-stage side of the set. We even had a little 'bit' when doing the scene change between the first & second acts, where once we on the 'Shift Crew' had finished rotating the set, we hung out on stage doing back-stage type antics because, well, it looked like backstage, until the crew-chief came on to remind us otherwise, and then we exited quickly in our best Looney Tunes-esque style. It got a laugh each night, and that's what counts in a comedy after all.