Theatre-goers chucked out of West End present as viewers chants ‘out’

Aug 27, 2023 at 8:14 PM
Theatre-goers chucked out of West End present as viewers chants ‘out’

Rowdy theatre-goers have been kicked out of a displaying of Grease the Musical for being “loud and abusive”.

The “disturbance” occurred on a West End theatre’s balcony on Saturday night time, interrupting the efficiency which has acquired rave evaluations. 

As they have been made to depart the theatre, different viewers members chanted “out, out out!”.

People additionally used their telephones to movie the rising scene because it’s reported eight cops and Dominion Theatre employees lined the stairway of the balcony the place seats price from £59.50 to as a lot as £150.

In one video, shared on Facebook, folks might be heard clapping as an officer stoops down to talk to a person and a lady within the viewers.

Another officer then appears to gesture to a different couple to depart.

One one who was on the theatre on the time commented on the clip, saying the folks have been apparently being impolite or abusive and “refusing to leave”.

When requested what occurred, he replied: “No one seems to know but bar staff claimed they’d been rude or abusive and just wouldn’t leave and kept on arguing, guessing too much drink.”

Loud chanting will also be heard because the group is walked out of the premises by cops and employees behind them.

At one humorous second, an officer turns round and provides a royal wave in direction of the viewers. The male officer is met with much more appreciative roars and applause.

The Met Police have been referred to as roughly 70 minutes into the present, throughout the interval. The ruckus reportedly delayed the beginning of the second half.

A spokesperson for Scotland Yard stated: “Shortly before 8.40pm on Saturday, August 26, police received reports of two men and two women causing a disturbance at a theatre in Tottenham Court Road, W1.

“Officers attended and the group have been escorted from the premises. No arrests. No accidents reported.”