Incident at 8/6 TKAM

[ardiem]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:07pm

From Gideon Glick: "Stopped our show tonight due to a motorcycle backfire that was mistaken for a bomb or a shooting. Screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety. The audience started screaming and the cast fled the stage. This is the world we live in. This cannot be our world."

https://twitter.com/gidglick/status/1158924908019294209

[edit] Here's an article Updated On: 8/6/19 at 11:07 PM

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:12pm

This makes me so sad while I’m also grateful everyone is okay.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:30pm

I saw the Cher show tonight so I just missed this mess. Makes me wonder if someone yelled gun after hearing the bike backfire.

[ukpuppetboy]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:38pm

Thoughts and prayers..

What could be the Republican answer to this? Perhaps everyone should have the right to a faulty exhaust.

Sarcasm aside, it is a terrible way to live life in any society and be in fear of a mass shooting at any moment; whether in a theater, cinema, nightclub or shopping mall. It’s continually confounding to the rest of the ‘developed’ world and we can only hope that there’s a radical shift in the political ‘thinking’ with the generations to come.

[Pose2]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:39pm

I was there tonight. It was horrible, scary, chaotic and just so heart breaking when I was outside and walking home. Everyone is so on edge because of the madness going on all over the country.  I have to say, the backfire must have been RIGHT next to theater because it was incredibly loud. I did not hear anyone yell "gun", I just started to hear loud talking, then screaming, then just mass panic. No one was hurt but the terror on people's faces? I will never forget it. 

We all have to go on living our lives, but a mass shooting in a theater is something I think of now, each and every time I go. 

[BOM]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:46pm

Can we stop with the “thoughts and prayers” as those don’t do anything?

[ukpuppetboy]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:50pm

BOM said: "Can we stop with the “thoughts and prayers” as those don’t do anything?"

If that was in reference to me, did you read the rest of the post?

edit: I’d just like to say my atheistic, British sarcasm is in no way meant to undermine the scary scenes you and others witnessed tonight Pose2. While the shooting may not have been real the dangers arising from the hysteria obviously were. Having grown up in London in the 90s with the ever present IRA bomb threats I can sympathise. Of course the difference being that 50% of the UK population wasn’t arguing for the right to posses explosives.

Updated On: 8/7/19 at 11:50 PM

[BOM]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:52pm

No I didn’t. My apologies.

[rg7759]

Posted: 8/6/19 at 11:55pm

If you're able, can you describe the manner in which the actors left the stage and how long a pause.

[Pose2]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 12:01am

Celia was speaking, then there was commotion from the lobby, and then the audience started reacting. She stopped talking and after a few seconds, stage management quickly got them off the stage. The show did not resume (it was pretty much the end).  

[Esther2]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 12:03am

rg7759 said: "If you're able, can you describe the manner in which the actors left the stage and how long a pause."

I'd love to tell you how they left the stage, but we were too busy running out of the theatre.  We were sitting house right, all the way on the side and all of a sudden there was loud talking outside and it sounded like people were banging on the doors trying to get into the theatre.  Then someone ran down the aisle yelling "shooting"  (someone told me that - I didn't hear it as we were trying to get out).  Nothing seemed to be happening outside, so we wandered back in, then there was an announcement of a motorcycle backfire and the show would not continue.  There was probably about five minutes left, then bows.  Ah well... I guess I'll have to go back and see Ed Harris...  

 

People suck. 

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 12:08am

Why do I find it strange somebody just asked for details of a traumatic event moments after it happened?

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 12:19am

Esther2 said: "I'd love to tell you how they left the stage, but we were too busy running out of the theatre. We were sitting house right, all the way on the side and all of a sudden there was loud talking outside and it sounded like people were banging on the doors trying to get into the theatre. Then someone ran down the aisle yelling "shooting" (someone told me that - I didn't hear it as we were trying to get out). Nothing seemed to be happening outside, so we wandered back in, then there was an announcement of a motorcycle backfire and the show would not continue. There was probably about five minutes left, then bows. Ah well... I guess I'll have to go back and see Ed Harris...

People suck."

It’s possible that your ticket merchant may automatically reach out to offer some compensation either in a partial refund or tickets to a future performance. Otherwise, if you reach out to the house manager and explain that you know it’s not the production’s fault but you were wondering about being able to see it again (since you missed the ending) from any seats (even ones at much less value than tonight’s) if they would comp you tickets, you might luck out. I imagine many in attendance were tourists who wouldn’t easily be able to make it back for another performance, but if you live there, maybe you can? 

[Kimbo]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 12:42am

I’m quite sure the producers will refund the entire audience if the performance wasn’t able to finish. Obviously there are more important things, and this isn’t the message to take away from what sounds like a horrifying event - but if the evening’s show was ruined, then clearly the production has insurance to cover that kind of event and obviously I’m sure they’ll do the right thing.

[bwaywrldmember6853]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 12:43am

from a facebook commenter —

“I was at the to kill a mockingbird performance tonight in one of the box seats with my sister.

It was the final scene and all of a sudden the back of the orchestra area began to run and scream in a panic; I too ran. It was all so chaotic but by the time I hopped out of my chair and went down the small staircase, crowds of people ran up causing me to go back to the box area. I crouched down and stayed low. I didn’t pay attention to the actors on stage durning this but I’m sure they ran off to a safe place for the time being. This was all within the first 15-20 seconds of when the people towards the back orchestra panicked. The speaker announced and told us to be calm and that there isn’t any danger. But people were still in a big panic because we had no idea what was going on. The speaker announced again and said that it was sound from the street (the motorcycle backfiring) and that we would not resume the the performance.”

[scarlet721]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 1:23am

I was at TKAM with some friends tonight, in the far right of the mezzanine.  The sequence of events from our perspective were that Celia was speaking what were probably her last lines and then we heard a sound coming from the Alley side of the theater that sounded like a strong wind or to my senses almost like a fire whooshing up. Next we saw all the actors run off the stage and people come streaming down the aisle and up onto the stage.  The house manager or someone came over the loudspeaker to try and get people to stay in their seats, but few people wanted to feel trapped in a building, so everyone exited.  And when we got to the alley, it looked like they were evacuating Junior's restaurant also.  Manoel Feliciano came out of the stage door as we were standing the alley and mentioned the motorcycle bit and we left then and headed home. 

[arsol]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 6:16am

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We all have to go on living our lives, but a mass shooting in a theater is something I think of now, each and every time I go."

I just missed this mess. Makes me wonder if someone yelled gun after hearing the bike backfire.

Updated On: 8/8/19 at 06:16 AM

[Broadway Buddy]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 6:42am

I was at the stagedoor coming out of DEH when someone heard something and yelled RUN! Luckily ATP got out at the same time, so there was a wave of people rushing into the imperial. It was super scary being part of it.

[Broadway Buddy]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 6:45am

rg7759 said: "If you're able, can you describe the manner in which the actors left the stage and how long a pause."

Everyone just ran into the nearest theatre lobby but we were just inside for 5 mins until they told us the news. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 7:46am

One article I read said the police (in Times Square) yelled, "Get down!" That may have started the panic.

Another very sad day.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 10:33am

Video from juniors.... [

https://twitter.com/ADiLorenzoTV/status/1159070844301258752?s=19

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 10:40am

This stuff is so scary, especially when no one knows for sure what the commotion is about.

At last year’s Citizens Festival, I think just as they were about to announce Janet Jackson (the last act), the entire first half of the festival turned around and started running for their lives towards us in the back. No one knew what was going on, and people started yelling something about a gun, and all of Central Park was a mess of terrified people.

Turns out, just like situation, it wasn’t a gun at all. A barricade at the very front of the crowd collapsed and people thought it was a gunshot.

This country is in such terrible shape. I'm glad no one was killed/injured.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 1:17pm

Kimbo said: "I’m quite sure the producers will refund the entire audience if the performance wasn’t able to finish. Obviously there are more important things, and this isn’t the message to take away from what sounds like a horrifying event - but if the evening’s show was ruined, then clearly the production has insurance to cover that kind of event and obviously I’m sure they’ll do the right thing."

 

Sorry, but your assumptions are incorrect.  While the producer could of course file a claim, it is highly unlikely that the insurance company would pay anything considering the performance was 99% over -- plus most shows (if they even have cancellation insurance, which is extremely costly) have a 2-performance deductible anyway.  I also highly doubt that the Shuberts and the producer will uniformly refund everyone who had a ticket last night.

 

[Kimbo]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 2:15pm

JSquared2 said: "Kimbo said: "I’m quite sure the producers will refund the entire audience if the performance wasn’t able to finish. Obviously there are more important things, and this isn’t the message to take away from what sounds like a horrifying event - but if the evening’s show was ruined, then clearly the production has insurance to cover that kind of event and obviously I’m sure they’ll do the right thing."



Sorry, but your assumptions are incorrect. While the producer could of course file a claim, it is highly unlikely that the insurance company would pay anything considering the performance was 99% over -- plus most shows (if they even have cancellation insurance, which is extremely costly) have a 2-performance deductible anyway. I also highly doubt that the Shuberts and the producerwill uniformly refund everyone who had a ticket last night.

"Well, shame on them if they don’t. Obviously it’s unfortunate when two events (a blackout and an unprecedented terror scare) cause two performances to be cancelled or uncompleted in less than a month. But it doesn’t matter if the show was stopped 1% of the way through or 99% - if a movie projector dies just before the last scene of a movie the cinema or theater chain will uniformly either refund tickets or offer a pass to come back. I’d expect anyone who asks the box office or Telecharge to receive the same treatment, since if the same thing isn’t done here that’d be tantamount to ‘goods not received for money tendered’. (And if for some incomprehensible reason the producers don’t play ball, it’d be incumbent on the ticket holders to contact their credit card company to insist on a refund and launch an investigation- anyone who paid cash might have a little more trouble.)

StubHub refunded something like 2000 customers who had tickets to the Jennifer Lopez concert at the Garden that was canceled in the middle because of the blackout. (I’m sure Ticketmaster did the same for anyone who couldn’t make the rescheduled concert date)- the same principle applies here for sure: if the performance isn’t finished for reasons beyond the audience’s control, the audience is entitled to their money back. Full stop. (That’s not an assumption, that’s a common sense fact.)

 

[David10086]

Posted: 8/7/19 at 4:11pm

Meanwhile, in Utah at the Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City, the mall was evacuated when a sign fell down and made a loud noise. People panicked and ran for cover thinking it was a mass shooter in the mall. People attending a summer concert inside the mall fled. There were no injuries, but some fights broke out during the evacuation. 

This is the new reality we live in. 

 

https://kutv.com/news/local/police-shots-fired-report-at-valley-fair-mall-was-just-sign-falling