Times Square Bomb Scare Affects Some Broadway Shows — Page 3

The only car-bombs that should be happening on a Saturday night must include Guinness, Bailey's and Jameson!

dancingthrulife4 and I made our way over to the Palace to check the understudy board at West Side Story, only to find it difficult to get from the corner of 46th to 47th.

We made it to the Palace and decided to head back to the Richard Rodgers to check about Heights standing room. However, they had blocked off the entire area around us, so we made our way down and through the Hotel Edison to get to the Rodgers.

We found they had no standing room, so we just kind of stood around and helped people get their friends to the theater. At one point, half the cast of In The Heights and a good amount of Billy Elliot's cast were outside wondering what was going on, before being called in to finally start their respective shows.

A few moments later, a cop drives by and tells everyone to get off the sidewalk and into somewhere, so we asked if we could sit in the box office and wait out whatever this was.

A few moments later, we heard a bang and I literally wanted to curl up into a ball in the Rodgers box office and cry.

The cops were being very direct with their comments about keeping people off the sidewalk, but many people did not listen. The Marriot Marquis was locked down or evacuated, because several people kept trying to get back into their hotel and failed.

We ended up sitting in the box office through the entire first act and were later taken to seats for most of Act Two.

Many latecomers were given the change to post date their tickets for future performances. Also, they made an announcement at intermission that the police didn't want anyone to go outside.


I thank the Richard Rodgers box office and housing staff for being so kind and helpful through all of the confusion.

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Updated On: 5/2/10 at 02:55 AM

The Daily News article has a lot of detail.
3 cops, street vendor stop Times Square car bomb from detonating; Gas, clock found inside car

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"The episode wasn't even about Muhammad; he had a freakin' cameo and they're still freaking out."

No, they just recently hada two part episode all about Muhammad and the whole censorship thing. They wouldn't show him in th first episode, but you could hear him talking. In the second, they purposefully had him blocked out by one of those black bars you usually see over people's junk.

But then Comedy Central apparently decided to go a step further and bleep out every mention of his name (I'm still not sure if that was really CC or Parker and Stone).

Anyway, it just happened. That said, definitely just a coincidence. MTV does not "own" Comedy Central. They are both just networks owned by Viacom. Considering that CC is also located in NYC, they could have bombed their building if they were trying to send that specific message.

This sounds like some hillbilly terrorist work.

It would have been the Viacom offices not the MTV offices that would have been a target.

Viacom is in the same building as the Minskoff Theater.

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[img]For his part, Rhatigan, 47, said he still plans to retire this year after 19 years of service.

"Of all the idiots in New York, I find this thing," he said. "I was almost a fireball.[/img]

I <3 NY. But on a serious note, NYPD did an excellent job handling this situation. It could've ended much differently.

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I'm giving the most kudos to the street vendor who was alert and smart.

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Hey PJ (or anyone else for that matter), could you tell us how Times Square looks when you're back? Just want to know if it looks more deserted than normal. I'm sure the police presence would be much larger today.

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We needed a wake up call to jolt us from our complacency & got one

Luckily, the bomb did not explode. Next time, we may not be so lucky.

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By complacency I mean terrorism is way down on the list of things people worry about.

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wow, word for word Adam Greer and Namo said exactly what I was thinking of posting about "our state of complacency."

Speak for yourself, Roxy.

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So are people supposed to constantly be worried about a terrorist attack? Not do things that they would normally do for fear of one? I don't ask to be a jerk, I'm just genuinely interested in what you meant by complacency..... Should I be concerned about a terrorist attack every time I get on a plane or head into the city?