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| re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS | |
| Posted by: schlepper 12:32 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS - Peony 10:52 am EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| You said "many people are falling", but even your "source" (who freely admits he was "hustling to the rest room at intermission" (likely before the lights had come up)) says it has been "a number of people". It seems like summertheater's special brand of hysteria is becoming contagious on ATC. |
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| re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS | |
| Posted by: mikem 01:15 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS - schlepper 12:32 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| From the comments by the fallers that the stairs need to be better lit, I am guessing that a lot of the fallers are going up in the dark. Someone at BWW says that they were there when John Simon got injured, and he got up in the dark in the middle of the show. I think the theater could make an announcement that if you need to get up while the lights are down, don’t forget there are stairs, but they can’t shine more light on the stairs during the performance without that being a distraction to those sitting nearby. |
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| re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS | |
| Posted by: FasterTheater 12:19 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS - mikem 01:15 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| I tripped too, and yes it was in the dark, but so what? It's a bizarre attitude to blame the victims. This doesn't happen routinely in other Broadway houses. | |
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| re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 12:33 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS - FasterTheater 12:19 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Hardly any Broadway houses have stairs in the orchestra aisles, so of course people aren't falling on them. If there's a problem with the Lyric's stairs, it's probably more that people don't expect them to be there than a design problem. (Plus running around when they can't see and not looking where they're putting their feet, which, yes, blame the victim, unexpected stairs are rarely a problem if you see them coming.) And it's not Ambassador's or Harry Potter's doing: The Ford/Hilton/Foxwoods/Lyric had stairs in the orchestra before. | |
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| re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS | |
| Last Edit: FasterTheater 01:38 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| Posted by: FasterTheater 01:37 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: People are falling at Harry Potter, read Joe Dziemianowicz in DAILY NEWS - sirpupnyc 12:33 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| If people don't expect an architectural feature, and it thus causes injuries, I would say that IS precisely a design problem. If they put glass doors in the exits to the auditorium that people kept bumping into, wouldn't that be a design problem? And it is EXACTLY Ambassador's doing. They've just spent millions of dollars to renovate the place. In any case, I don't remember any articles in the Daily News about ribs being broken at the Ford/Hilton/Foxwoods (except of course on stage in Spider-Man) Sorry, I just don't agree with anything you've just said, including that I was "running around" or that any audience members deserves to have their ribs broken. |
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