Actor injured in Spiderman tonight — Page 13

Two things first:

1. I wish this all were turning out differently and Spiderman was hitting it off as a success.

2. I wish nobody was getting hurt and that those injured will recover and continue with their careers

Now, my question:

I'm very confused because doesn't Cirque du Soleil do all kinds of crazy aerials all over the place? I guess I don't hear of injuries like this happening to them. What is different in the safety in Cirque than in Spiderman?

It just seems crazy to me that Cirque can do such complicated looking things without me hearing about disasters. Might be just me, but what am I missing?

RE: Wicked injuries-yeah there have been multiple injuries with that show (Steph J Block's cherry picker one comes to mind) BUUUT you're talking about injuries happening over YEARS of performances. Spiderman isn't even open!

Theatre is dangerous, but it shouldn't be made more so by expecting your actors to perform in stunts seen in film.

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http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/broadway-star-rips-spider-man-does-someone-have-die-23408

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am I the only one who does not understand how the accident could have possibly been human error?

Isn't the harness clip that the actress who plays Elphaba somehow rigged so that if it isn'r clipped on correctly the lift doesn't go up? Wonder if they could do something like that with this show.

Also, any more word on if an audience member was actually hit with the cable?

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The rope would not travel down with him because he's not supposed to fall over the edge. He runs to the edge of the bridge and lights go out just as it appears he is going to leap. The cable, I imagine, is to keep him from falling.

Thank you BrianS. I was under the impression that the cable had snapped.

Eris, I believe the cable wasn't connected to the actor.

From the video, you can see the cable is at least 15 feet long. Had the cable been attached to the actor and not attached to the anchor upstage, when the actor fell, he would have fallen down, but for 15 feet+ of cable to follow him, it would gain phenomenal momentum toward the audience as it went around the lip of the ledge he fell off of. If you look at how close the front row is to this effect, that cable would have flung out like a whip and done serious injuries to audience members. None have been reported.

I guess it will all come out eventually, but I believe someone failed to secure it to the actor.

P.S. can you imagine if that cable did whip out into the audience at speed?

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Updated On: 12/22/10 at 01:49 PM

Apparently Chris Tierney had surgery today to repair three cracked vertebrae. His dad wrote on facebook "Ok everyone, just got word that Christopher is out of surgery and everything went according to plan. The doctors are very optimistic." ~ Tim Tierney

For the magic man

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Thanks for the wikipedia article. I'd like to trust that y'all didn't go ahead and edit it to your tastes before posting. Because god knows that you can

But, part of it did stick out to me. Let me break it down for ya'

"The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering genocide..."

Well, actors consider themselves a different breed of people than most. And they're the ones getting hurt in near death experiences on this show.

"...propaganda..."

Reports that Chris was fine and all signs looked good by the Spidey team to find out that he was in fact in critical condition later one.

"...eugenics (racial superiority)..."

Well, Julie thinks she's better than everyone. She's made that clear by getting so upset that people are judging her art.

"or other mainstays of Nazi Germany, nor, more debatably, to discussion of other totalitarian regimes, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate."

A totalitarian regime. Working for Julie Taymor. Being silenced by the production staff.


I guess Godwin's law doesn't apply to me here. Tee hee

Can we please distinguish that 'serious' condition is actually different from 'critical' condition? The latter meaning doctor's wouldn't be sure if he was going to live.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but when I watched the video of him being wheeled out of the theatre, he looked calm. He didn't look to be in intolerable pain. He didn't look like he was clinging to life.

I think by 'serious' condition, they probably mean that they've stopped the internal bleeding and are now checking him hourly (or periodically) to make sure it doesn't start again.

Check the threads, they did surgery on three vertebrae this morning. That means there was spinal injury as well. That's critical condition.