The Apollo Theater in Shaftesbury Avenue, one of the West End's most admired and busiest venues, has suffered a disaster almost without parallel in recent Theatreland history. During a performance of the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a hit show adapted from the best-selling book, part of the balcony collapsed on the audience, injuring dozens, some seriously.
Not far away, in Her Majesty's Theatre, The Phantom of the Opera famously simulates a chandelier falling on its audience every night. But the nightmare, or something close to it, has come horrifyingly true at the Apollo. The latest statistics report seven seriously injured and 81 more injured to various lesser extents.
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