Theatre-goers chucked out of Grease the Musical as audience starts chanting ‘out’ | UK | News
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Rowdy theatre-goers were kicked out of a showing of Grease the Musical for being “loud and abusive”.
The “disturbance” took place on a West End theatre’s balcony on Saturday night, interrupting the performance which has received rave reviews.
As they were made to leave the theatre, other audience members chanted “out, out out!”.
People also used their phones to film the emerging scene as it’s reported eight police officers and Dominion Theatre staff lined the stairway of the balcony where seats cost from £59.50 to as much as £150.
In one video, shared on Facebook, people can be heard clapping as an officer stoops down to speak to a man and a woman in the audience.
Another officer then seems to gesture to another couple to leave.
One person who was at the theatre at the time commented on the clip, saying the people were apparently being rude or abusive and “refusing to leave”.
When asked what happened, 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 can also be heard as the group is walked out of the premises by police officers and staff behind them.
At one funny moment, an officer turns around and gives a royal wave towards the audience. The male officer is met with even more appreciative roars and applause.
The Met Police were called roughly 70 minutes into the show, during the interval. The ruckus reportedly delayed the start of the second half.
A spokesperson for Scotland Yard said: “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 were escorted from the premises. No arrests. No injuries reported.”