roof collapse at london theatre

by Cantankerous Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:26 am

'It was like an avalanche': Terror at West End theatre as 80 people in audience are injured after balcony collapses during performance

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526644/Audience-members-trapped-balcony-Apollo-Theatre-collapses-performance.html#ixzz2nyCzKDzB
80 injured but thankfully no reports of people killed so far.
this sounds like a bit of a miracle if it remains that way.

there is bringing the house down, but this is ridiculous

by Guest Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:21 am

Watched it on the news, been to the Apollo lots of times, must have been terrifying.

by Ben Reilly Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:36 am

They covered it well; I liked the inclusion of all the photos (I'm a journalist, which is why I'm looking at this so clinically). That's the great thing about the Web as a medium for news coverage -- you're not limited like you are with print. I mean, you're limited in that you don't want to run crap photos, but sometimes stories like this take a multitude of images to tell correctly.

How long has the Apollo been there? I'd only heard of ours in New York City ...

by Guest Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:28 am

Ben_Reilly wrote:They covered it well; I liked the inclusion of all the photos (I'm a journalist, which is why I'm looking at this so clinically). That's the great thing about the Web as a medium for news coverage -- you're not limited like you are with print. I mean, you're limited in that you don't want to run crap photos, but sometimes stories like this take a multitude of images to tell correctly.

How long has the Apollo been there? I'd only heard of ours in New York City ...

The Apollo must be well over a hundred years old its a listed building, beautiful inside and out.
What a tragedy. Its a miracle no one died.

by Guest Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:14 pm

by Guest Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:20 pm

They are saying that it might have been due to the heavy rain last night, there was a very big thunder storm here and really big hailstones.

by Guest Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:25 pm

must be a good show

it actually brought the house down

by Guest Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:39 pm

Oh you bad, bad man!!!!! (snigger!) LOL

by Original Quill Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:18 am

Been there many times. Saw Sunset Bl., Fiddler, and Three Penny on that very stage. Such tradition. Horrible that that ceiling could come down.

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