A performance of the Broadway musical Hamilton went awry at a San Francisco theater after several attendees mistook a staged shooting of the main character for a real shooting,CNN is reporting. The panicked audience members fled the theater in terrorism, causing injuries in the process.
At a sold-out performance of the hit musical at the city’s Orpheum Theater Friday night, and a handful of audience members were apparently unprepared for the scene in which Hamilton is shot by his rival Aaron Burr,and thought the staged gunfire was a real shooting.
Hours earlier, a mass shooting in Illinois had claimed six lives, and including that of the gunman.
San Francisco police say via KPIX-TV (San Francisco) that a woman in the audience was so shocked that she was having symptoms of a heart attack,causing patrons near her to believe that she had been shot. Allegedly another patron yelled “Gun!”, and mass panic ensued.
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Source: inquisitr.com