#51
Posted: 3/4/08 at 11:17am
I, too, was there. I'll comment on the accident, and then another situation.
I was sittitng in the back of the Right Orch and in the moments preceding "Rose's Turn" I heard a loud crash in the Mezz above and I thought some dumbass knocked something over.
A few seconds later, I heard people mumbling and then someone up there shouted "Are you OK?!" I then thought...what could have happened? Did the hinges of their seat break and she fell?
Ushers and management (about six people) then RAN upstairs and I saw the people sitting in the box seats house left looking not at the stage, but at the balcony. I heard the victim sobbing and crying so I knew it was something much more severe and was PLEADING for them to stop the show because everyone was clearly distracted and wanted to know that this person was OK.
At the stage door, Laura Benanti commented on it and I asked if everyone on stage knew what had happened? She said something to the effect of: "Oh yes, we saw something fall and crash and we all were very worried, but Patti kept us focused and kept the show going so unless they stopped us, we kept going."
Very scary.
Secondly,
In addition to the "choker" upstairs, there was a gentleman downstairs in the back of the Center Orch. He wasn't too unruly until Act Two. In a quiet moment of the gypsy strip, he shouted out "Sing Out!" to Louise. Then after Rose's Turn, he shouted out "We love you!" at the end of her standing ovation applause to Patti. Then when Laura entered the stage to continue the scene, as soon as they began to speak, he shouted out again "WE LOVE YOU!" and everyone kept quieting him down and he just laughed. R-U-D-E.
I was sittitng in the back of the Right Orch and in the moments preceding "Rose's Turn" I heard a loud crash in the Mezz above and I thought some dumbass knocked something over.
A few seconds later, I heard people mumbling and then someone up there shouted "Are you OK?!" I then thought...what could have happened? Did the hinges of their seat break and she fell?
Ushers and management (about six people) then RAN upstairs and I saw the people sitting in the box seats house left looking not at the stage, but at the balcony. I heard the victim sobbing and crying so I knew it was something much more severe and was PLEADING for them to stop the show because everyone was clearly distracted and wanted to know that this person was OK.
At the stage door, Laura Benanti commented on it and I asked if everyone on stage knew what had happened? She said something to the effect of: "Oh yes, we saw something fall and crash and we all were very worried, but Patti kept us focused and kept the show going so unless they stopped us, we kept going."
Very scary.
Secondly,
In addition to the "choker" upstairs, there was a gentleman downstairs in the back of the Center Orch. He wasn't too unruly until Act Two. In a quiet moment of the gypsy strip, he shouted out "Sing Out!" to Louise. Then after Rose's Turn, he shouted out "We love you!" at the end of her standing ovation applause to Patti. Then when Laura entered the stage to continue the scene, as soon as they began to speak, he shouted out again "WE LOVE YOU!" and everyone kept quieting him down and he just laughed. R-U-D-E.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
