West End musical stage is under water
mainThe Lyceum, where The Lion King plays, has been flooded.
The orchestra pit is under 12 foot of water.
Firefighters have been working through the night at a sever flooding @Lyceum_Theatre1 Water levels reached as high as 4 metres at basement level but have now been substantially reduced #flooding #iconic #theatre pic.twitter.com/UvUTzxGsek
— Westminster LFB (@LFBWestminster) May 12, 2020
Firefighters have been working throughout the night to clear water that flooded a theatre in #CoventGarden. An orchestra pit in the basement of the theatre was flooded to a depth of around 12ft https://t.co/gsqmLImraG pic.twitter.com/F4EZ0AZgcV
— London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) May 12, 2020
Why is it flooded? Did some pipe break? I can’t imagine the Lyceum has been singled out by one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Others may know, but I do not Twit, so have no information.
I assume the above reference to “sever flooding” is a typo for “sewer flooding”…..?
I trust the pit was (most likely by now) empty and nothing of any worth destroyed…
V. Lind — Ingrained from journalism school: who, what, when, where, why. Cause of flooding still unreported, unknown, under investigation. Theatre on Jermyn St. opposite Waterloo Bridge, 2100 seats, 250 years old, damaged a month ago by flooding from burst pipe in adjacent building. Orchestra rehearsing “Noah’s Fludde” and “Le Deluge”, as “Engulfed Cathedral” too tall and judged insufficiently dramatic. Four metres is a lot of water. even for London. “Lion King” in the streets. Water level abating.
t recalls Robert Benchley’s reporter days on a New York daily, who sent him to Venice to check reports of floods. His editors waited impatiently for several days.At last came a wire from Benchley: “Arrived Venice. Streets full of water. Advise.”