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“It was a little bit chaotic,” said Peek. “The room was so small you had to make sure people went to the front first, and you had to be a shepherd really. “And then it was very difficult at the end getting people out. “The audience was very cramped. There were no toilets, so that was really hard too.”
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Court Theatre veterans, Gay Peek, left, and Doris Barnard have ushered in 50 years at the Court Theatre. The Court Theatre moved to three venues before settling at the Arts Centre in 1976. After the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes damaged their Arts Centre home, the Court Theatre built a new space in a former grain silo in Addington and reopened in December 2011.
On the afternoon of Halloween 2012, as other New Yorkers put the finishing touches to their scary costumes, staff at Scott Rudin Productions say they were forcefully reminded they had a monster in their midst.
The calm at the Times Square offices of the Hollywood and Broadway powerhouse that had produced The Social Network, No Country For Old Men and Zoolander was reportedly suddenly broken by the explosive sounds of splintering glass and metal that one witness compared to a car crash.
Scott Rudin, whose Broadway triumphs include The Book Of Mormon and Hello, Dolly!, had lost his temper with a minion who had failed to get him a seat on a sold-out flight, and had allegedly smashed an Apple computer monitor on his hand.
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