Twitter is being flooded with messages from Audience Members Tonight at SPIDER-MAN, with word that an actor fell during the middle of Act 2 when a cable snapped. The show was first put on hold, and then cancelled as ambulances arrived on the scene.
BroadwayWorld spoke to an audience member who was there and told us that it right was near the end of the show when the bridge comes down and MJ falls and Spider-Man goes after her. Basically, she went down and he went jumping after her, and you saw the rope come done and then snap back up and then all of a sudden, the stage manager's voice came on and said that there was going to be a pause and they stayed dark for a minute or two and then they basically called the show.
Our source tells us that for most of the audience, there was a moment of "did I really just see that" foliowed by horror and concern. Coming from where the actor fell, a voice was heard screaming as well. As audience members left the theatre, at least one ambulance and fire truck were seen.
Another audience member has contacted us to tell us that "The person taken away was the person playing Spider-Man at the time. He tried to get up and stagehands told him not to move.
I was in the audience and i'm an NY EMT. Although i am not involved with the care of the patient they didn't use a back-board and collar so they don't suspect spinal injury. The ambulance stayed on site longer then expected leading to believe the injury isn't critical."
The FDNY confirms they were called at about 10:45 p.m. to treat a man who fell twenty feet. It was unclear which actor was involved in the accident, but we're told that it was a 31 year old man, who has now been taken to Bellevue Hospital.
This is the fourth injury in the show. Two shows are scheduled for Spider-Man on Wednesday, there is no word at this time if performances will be cancelled.
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