Here's the opposite of a malfunction:
Back in college several decades ago, our main theatre group was putting on a play that was very new, only performed once in NYC at the time, won awards, etc. It had a massive nude scene at the end where everyone got slaughtered in a war scene while running around nude. The entire massive company was nude for almost the second have of the show.
At our college, everyone rehearsed dressed.
Come showtime, all of us who heard about this play were excited to see it. But they did the nude scenes in beige bodysuits with clothes underneath. So disappointing, and as someone was was really into modern theatre, I actually thought it was sacrilegious to do such a thing.
I spoke with a friend of mine who was in the play a few weeks later, and she said that they certainly were going to do the nude parts, but a grandparent of one of the students caught wind of it, and being a massive donor to the theatre in a conservative part of the country, she complained and spooked the right people, and thus bodysuits were immediately ordered.
Our blackbox theatre, on the other hand, got into trouble for a nude scene with simulated sex that may have been a bit sly on the "simulated" part. I didn't get to see it and they shut it down after opening night, but I heard about it among my artsy friends for a month!
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