Just before Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette were due to take the stage last night on Broadway, a stagehand in their show was discovered dead in a bathroom of an overdose. The show was canceled and the audience sent home by Daniel and John. I don't think I have ever heard of that happening before. I have heard of people dying at concerts and while movies are being filmed of course, but never before a Broadway show. How bad must life have been for that pour soul if they could not even make it through a two hour show without using. My thoughts are with him and his family.
I don't understand a drug addiction. A food addiction yes, but not drug.
ReplyDeleteThat's incredibly tragic, but I have to say that I find it incredibly classy of Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette to cancel the show. It exhibits a kind of solemn sensitivity that seems rare nowadays.
ReplyDelete@Jamie's Girl -- well, if you understand the plight of one addiction, I'd think that you'd be able to empathize with the struggles associated with some of the other kinds.
ReplyDeleteThe show is right across the street from my office I have seen John Laroquette walking/smoking around but not Daniel.
ReplyDeleteSad news.
I don't have enough John Larroquette in my life. I really miss him on tv.
ReplyDeleteAs for addictions...the only one I've never truly understood is gambling, and yet it can be so destructive. My sympathies to anyone who struggles. Except maybe Lilo. And yes, I realize how "unfair" that is.
Very sad. I've been hearing about so much addiction lately, it truly is an epidemic.
ReplyDeletePoor guy (or girl)'s family. And poor guy. Not surprised they would do something classy and professional like this. John's a recovering alcoholic so I bet he gets it.
ReplyDeleteWhile very sad...whatever happened to the show must go on??? Broadway, of all places, typically adheres to that policy.
ReplyDeleteI know John Laroquette is very tall, but even sitting down makes Daniel look like he's in his first year at Hogwarts.
@Ice Angel: I think the saying "the show must go on" should have small print that states "unless there's a death involved".
ReplyDeleteyou stumble your lines? show goes on.
star gets flu, understudy takes over? show goes on.
you audibly fart onstage and the whole audience hears and roars with laughter? show goes on.
stagehand dies of overdose in bathroom? i don't think a broadway show is more important that THAT.
What pwner just said.
ReplyDeleteI would assume there were a lot of police/Fire Rescue, etc backstage - perhaps they were physically unable to start the show?
ReplyDeleteI think of the show must go on, I think of a couple of sceanrios:
ReplyDeleteCircus continuing on after a trainer gets mauled by a lion
Theaters continuing on performing during war time
Show going on after performer breaks a leg, etc...
I am not sure what the original quote or the original sentiment was, but I always figured the show would always go on. Like it said, it is very sad all the way around.
P.S. I also think of Brett Favre playing in a game the very day after his father passed away.
ReplyDeleteJohn Larroquette and Daniel Radcliffe are both amazingly classy guys. I'm sort of heart-broken that I can't get up to NYC to see this anytime soon.
ReplyDelete"The Show Must Go On" is really an opera thing ~ opera people are a bit crazy.
I remember the Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette who's mother died as she arrived to watch her daughter in the Olympics. She skated anyway 2 days later and won a bronze medal, along with the hearts of all Canadians.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/02/24/olympics.rochette/index.html
@Ice Angel -- If a trainer gets mauled by a lion, the circus should examine how they're treating their animals. They should DEFinitely cease the show, in my opinion. But I think all circuses who use animals are evil, so that's where I'm coming from.
ReplyDeleteI *do* get your point, but that particular comparison fell a little flat for me.
Either way, did they cancel the whole ENTIRE run, or just one night's showing? I can see sitting out one night and letting ticketholders reschedule for another time. It's sort of like a moment of silence -- the acknowledgment that death, even if it's the death of a non-famous stranger, is more powerful than just a couple of hours of entertainment. I still think it's pretty respectful.
@Lynette - I had forgotten about that. I think we all had tears in our eyes.
ReplyDelete@Ida-totally on board with your circus thing. I don't go to them and as much as my kids beg won't bring them to one. Totally cruel treatment of animals.
ReplyDelete@Ice Angel -- you're a good mama. :-) Your kids will totally praise you for your compassion one day, I'll bet.
ReplyDeleteCircus = NO
ReplyDeleteHow awful, for whoever discovered he/she and their poor families! :(
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