Four audience members thrown out of West End's 'Grease the Musical'
You’re the one that I want! Moment four audience members are thrown out of West End’s ‘Grease the Musical’ by EIGHT police officers ‘for being loud and abusive’ as cheering theatregoers chant ‘out, out, out!’
- Met Police officers were called to a ‘disturbance’ at the Dominion Theatre
- Two men and two women were escorted out of the auditorium to loud cheers
A ‘disturbance’ on a London theatre’s balcony interrupted the performance of Grease the Musical last night.
Theatre-goers held up their phones and filmed as around eight police officers and Dominion Theatre staff lined the stairway of the balcony where seats cost from £59.50 to as much as £150.
People could be heard clapping and repeatedly shouting ‘out’ in the one minute and 47 second clip as one officer stoops down to speak to a man and a woman in the audience.
Another officer then appears to gesture to another couple to leave.
Applause and cheering then erupts in the theatre as the two couples stand and start to walk out of the auditorium.
Eight police offices and Dominion Theatre staff line stairs on the balcony during a performance of Grease the Musical after being called to a ‘disturbance’
People can be heard clapping and repeatedly shouting ‘out’ in the video. Applause and cheering then erupts in the theatre as the two couples stand and start to walk out of the auditorium
One theatre-goer commented beneath the clip on Facebook that they ‘were apparently being rude or abusive and refusing to leave’
One theatre-goer commented beneath the clip on Facebook that they ‘were apparently being rude or abusive and refusing to leave’.
Asked by one person what had 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 jeering can then be heard as the quartet are escorted out of the premises with police officers and staff following behind.
There is one comical moment where a police officer turns around and gives a royal wave towards the audience which is greeted with more applause and cheers.
The second half of the show was delayed due to the ruckus.
Met Police officers were called 70 minutes into the evening performance of the hit musical, which starred Neighbours’ legend Jason Donovan as Teen Angel.
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.’
Met Police officers were called 70 minutes into the evening performance of the hit musical, which starred Neighbours’ legend Jason Donovan as Teen Angel. Two police cars and a police van were pictured outside the theatre with their blue lights flashing
A smiling Allana Taylor smiles as she exits the theatre following the Grease the Musical show which was disrupted by a ‘disturbance’
Gareth Gates, who is appearing in the SpongeBob SquarePants musical in September, picked up cast member and girlfriend Ms Taylor in his Range Rover, while Jason Donovan was said to have left by the side exit
Two police cars and a police van were pictured outside the theatre with their blue lights flashing.
Members of the cast were also snapped exiting the stage door as the musical concluded.
Gareth Gates, who is appearing in the SpongeBob SquarePants musical at the Southbank Centre in September, picked up cast member and girlfriend Allana Taylor in his Range Rover, while Jason Donovan was said to have left by the side exit.
Grease the Musical returned to the West End in June for a limited run with the last performance on October 28.
Peter Andre has also been cast to star as Vince Fontaine and Teen Angel, although he was not scheduled to perform in last night’s show.
The MailOnline has contacted Dominion Theatre for comment.
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