Getting sick in the theater

Yes. When I ushered for Cabaret, this girl came who was quite drunk. Then, she starts ordering drinks. Well, half way through the show, show vomited and everyone sitting in front of her started freaking out (with good reason). It was disgusting. They didn't stop the show, maybe it was because we were sitting in the mezz. I felt sooooo bad for the people who had to clean it up.

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Updated On: 2/12/05 at 12:43 PM

When I saw LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at the Virginia Theatre, I had second row mezzanine seats. There was a family in the first row mezzanine, and during Act II, this little boy begins to throw up on the floor.

I was so captured by the show (it being my favorite), so I didn't even notice this boy until my friend Jessica pokes me and goes, "Ew, he's throwing up!"

I remember a year ago or so, a woman suffered a heart attack in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway right, and an actor in the show was an RN, right???

I remember during Frankie and Johnny someone got sick and Stanly Tuchi(sp) stoped acting and asked if there was a doctor in the house.

At one performance of Annie Get Your Gun, someone had a seizure...

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When Chicago was still at the Shubert some woman in the mezz threw up over the railing onto someone in the orchestra....

Thank god I wasn't there. That's horrible

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I thought that Stanley Tucci performed the heimlich (sp?) during "Frankie and Johnny".

On to a sickness story... "The Crucible" revival in 2002 at the Virginia Theatre. Really sick but wanted to go anyway. Threw up at intermission, but made it to the end.

RIP Arthur Miller!

At least something was going on during that horrid show...

At Mamma Mia I was in the standing room section at the back of the orchestra when a woman ran to the back and started throwing up. It was the most entertaining part of the evening. :o)
Sorry - I'm a little bitchy today!

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Updated On: 2/12/05 at 09:30 PM

I got sick in a theatre recently. I went to a reading of the self-proclaimed "fabulous composer" Scott Alan's unproduced (and seemingly never to be finished) PIECES. I felt the urge to retch about two minutes into the first song. That urge became overwhelming and I rushed from the theatre with vomit streaming out of my mouth. It was terrible. Do not go to a Scott Alan reading unless you have refrained from eating or have waited at least two hours after your last meal. Don't say that I didn't warn you!

"Is the story true that Irene Ryan died backstage?"

71-year-old Irene Ryan suffered a stroke while performing in the Broadway musical "Pippin" and died six weeks later.

Cyril Ritchard suffered a heart attack during a performance in Chicago of the musical "Side By Side", causing him to slip into a coma from which he never recovered.

Arnold Soboloff suffered a heart attack during a New York City performance of "Peter Pan".

While giving a comedy performance at the UC San Diego campus, Dick Shawn fell and struck his head on the stage. The comedian lay there for nearly five minutes before the audience realized it was not part of his act and an ambulance was called. He died forty-five minutes later in hospital, apparently of a heart attack.

Richard Versalle a 63-year-old tenor died onstage at New York's Metropolitan Opera immediately after delivering the line: "Too bad you can only live so long" in Janacek's "The Makropulos Case". It was the first performance and Versalle, who was playing the legal clerk Vitek alongside Jessye Norman, climbed a 20 ft ladder to file a legal brief, but had a heart attack and plunged to the ground. Janacek's opera is about the secret of eternal life.

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Updated On: 2/13/05 at 11:37 AM