Dramatic footage has been shared showing the moment audience members interrupted the performance of a hit musical which led to police being called.
The clip was captured during the performance of hit song I Will Always Love You at the show in Manchester on Friday night. In the video, a member of the audience can be heard shouting the lyrics over the track, the MEN reports.
Police were called to the Palace Theatre after reports of a “mini riot” breaking out in the crowd. Some claimed the show had to be stopped early after audience members began “trying to sing over the cast”.
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The clip was filmed shortly before the show had to be halted after audience members reportedly repeated sang over performers, despite the show’s producers asking the public to not to – and installing signs around the auditorium. Police were called to the Oxford Street venue when ‘staff reported a number of people in the audience causing a disturbance’ and two women were captured on video footage being dragged out of the upper circle of the theatre.
Karl Bradley, who filmed the video clips, described the scenes in the theatre as chaotic and said people were ‘screaming’ and chanting ‘out, out, out’ as some audience members sang over the performers. He told the Manchester Evening News the chaos started around half an hour into the first act.
He said: “We got about half an hour in and that was when it first all went black on the stage and everyone was a bit confused as to what was going on. I thought it might be the interval and I was thinking surely not so soon in.
“And then it became apparent once there was an announcement and there was a bit of a kerfuffle in the audience, they said they had to hold the show due to audience disruption.”
He said the ‘screaming’ over I Will Always Love You came from the upper tier in the theatre. “It was like people knew what was going to happen and we’re sort of counting down to the woman screaming in the upper stalls”, he said.
The musical is based on blockbuster film The Bodyguard and is adapted from the 1992 movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. The musical’s score features a string of huge pop hits from one of the best-selling soundtracks of all-time, including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, Run to You, I Have Nothing, I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
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