Performer's wig falls off... keeps on performing

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3. That's nothin'

I was playing Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid once. Walking downstage, crossing stage right to left, and the bloomers under my ankle length skirt slowly slid down my legs. The safety pin I had used to fasten them had come undone. I stepped out of them--downstage center-- continued my cross to left stage where I was to sit on the stage next to the wheelchair. I folded up my bloomers and stashed them behind the back of The Invalid, as though they were a pillow. At the end of the scene, he took the bloomers out and tossed them at me.

Nobody in the audience knew that was all improvisation to a costume failure.