Cheryl Farley, playhouse community relations manager, said details about the incident and the name of the individual will not be released.

They'll be in the publicly accessible OSHA report, I'll bet.

break a leg!

SeacoastOnline is the main reason why I have a Javascript speedbutton on my Opera menu bar. Thanks, Opera.

Police spokesman's name: Sgt. Matthew Buttrick

I hope he's not a part-time magician.

FTFATitle: "Woman injured after fall through Ogunquit Playhouse floor"

FTFAText: "A person who, according to police logs, fell 19-feet through an Ogunquit Playhouse ceiling on Saturday..."

...so - which was it? Ceiling? Floor? Both in that order? Multi-story playhouse? Inquiring minds want to know!

When I was 19, I handled lighting for a local community theatre. In order to do this, I had to climb around the rafters -- four stories above the audience seats -- with no safety cables or nets (and no formal training). It's a wonder I never ended up like this woman.

/when you're 19, you don't think about such things; you're INVINCIBLE

At which point the IATSE crew asked to see her Equity card, and since she didn't have one, pushed her off the front of the stage.

stagepoke: At which point the IATSE crew asked to see her Equity card, and since she didn't have one, pushed her off the front of the stage.

Zing!

\rigger
\\non-union
\\\bite me

+1 for the rare Hanna Barbera headline reference, subby. It was spectacular. Wonderful. Divine, even.

gweilo8888: ...so - which was it? Ceiling? Floor? Both in that order? Multi-story playhouse? Inquiring minds want to know!

This. Maybe though the stage and into the sub-stage storage area? Did she start out on the roof of the building, the rafters, or some kind of attic?

/WE NEED ANSWERS, DAMMIT!

no safety cables or nets (and no formal training)

Sounds like non-union to me.

/IATSE
//So I can tour with real stars

robohobo: Was Captain...Tripps her understudy?



Wanted for questioning.

stagepoke: no safety cables or nets (and no formal training)

Sounds like non-union to me.

/IATSE
//So I can tour with real stars

You can tell because they were actually trying to do work.

All the while I was involved in community Theatre, it was standard to say "break a leg;" it is bad luck to say "good luck" in theatre.

This is the first time I ever saw anyone take it literally.

Who is out there posting my local news to Fark so quickly? Is it the local news team? Nice job with the multitasking.

Anyhoo the ceiling area of a theater, auditorium etc is a great place to go have a smoke. That goes double if its one of those left handed cigarettes.

droosan: When I was 19, I handled lighting for a local community theatre. In order to do this, I had to climb around the rafters -- four stories above the audience seats -- with no safety cables or nets (and no formal training). It's a wonder I never ended up like this woman.

/when you're 19, you don't think about such things; you're INVINCIBLECERTIFIABLY STUPID

FTFY.

For the record, droosan, I don't believe you are that dumb now, but to have done that at 19 and not to understand that "gee, if I fall, I am likely dead" doesn't speak well for you state of mind or comprehension at that age.

When I was 16, I mowed my neighbor's lawn and did other "around the yard" tasks, whatever he wanted. I was saving money to purchase a stereo (still have it, too). One thing he had me do every now and then, after I had strapped on the gas-powered, 2-cycle, backpack-style leaf blower (heavy commercial unit), was to go on his roof and blow the leaves off. One area he wanted me to do, and stupid me did it, was to blow off the leaves from the roof of his porch. This "roof" was composed of 2 x 8 foot panels of corrugated fiberglass panels over a series spaced apart of 2x6 rafters. I had to carefully walk on the rafters, balancing against the force of the blower, to blow all the leaves off the roof (it was about a 20 x 20 foot area).

All I could think about was how if I screwed up and fell, I was possibly going to end up fairly injured, especially if I fell through and landed on the concrete below. I think I only cleaned that roof a couple of times. Honestly, that was two times too many.

Then, at 19, or now, I would not consider myself "invincible" and climb among rafters without any safety harness 40+ feet from the ground. In fact, I can't think of any time in my life that I ever considered myself "invincible". That isn't to say I haven't done stupid things, nor is it to say I have never been injured doing stupid things, but I am well aware that I can and will someday die; let's just hope it isn't in a painful manner when that day comes (although I have my doubts - I honestly think that every death is likely painful in some manner, even "dying in your sleep").

cr0sh: droosan: When I was 19, I handled lighting for a local community theatre. In order to do this, I had to climb around the rafters -- four stories above the audience seats -- with no safety cables or nets (and no formal training). It's a wonder I never ended up like this woman.

/when you're 19, you don't think about such things; you're INVINCIBLECERTIFIABLY STUPID

FTFY.

For the record, droosan, I don't believe you are that dumb now, but to have done that at 19 and not to understand that "gee, if I fall, I am likely dead" doesn't speak well for you your state of mind or comprehension at that age.

When I was 16, I mowed my neighbor's lawn and did other "around the yard" tasks, whatever he wanted. I was saving money to purchase a stereo (still have it, too). One thing he had me do every now and then, after I had strapped on the gas-powered, 2-cycle, backpack-style leaf blower (heavy commercial unit), was to go on his roof and blow the leaves off. One area he wanted me to do, and stupid me did it, was to blow off the leaves from the roof of his porch. This "roof" was composed of 2 x 8 foot panels of corrugated fiberglass panels over a series spaced apart of 2x6 rafters. I had to carefully walk on the rafters, balancing against the force of the blower, to blow all the leaves off the roof (it was about a 20 x 20 foot area).

All I could think about was how if I screwed up and fell, I was possibly going to end up fairly injured, especially if I fell through and landed on the concrete below. I think I only cleaned that roof a couple of times. Honestly, that was two times too many.

Then, at 19, or now, I would not consider myself "invincible" and climb among rafters without any safety harness 40+ feet from the ground. In fact, I can't think of any time in my life that I ever considered myself "invincible". That isn't to say I haven't done stupid things, nor is it to say I have never been injured doing stupid things, but I am well aware that I can and will someday die; let's just hope it isn't in a painful manner when that day comes (although I have my doubts - I honestly think that every death is likely painful in some manner, even "dying in your sleep").

Gotta love the self-righteous tools when they make spelling errors.

/Just having fun, can't you see? I ain't to hurt no one, but there's a few of um after me.

gweilo8888: FTFATitle: "Woman injured after fall through Ogunquit Playhouse floor"

FTFAText: "A person who, according to police logs, fell 19-feet through an Ogunquit Playhouse ceiling on Saturday..."

...so - which was it? Ceiling? Floor? Both in that order? Multi-story playhouse? Inquiring minds want to know!

They say the universe is curved.

Approves. (new window)

Fireproof: gweilo8888: ...so - which was it? Ceiling? Floor? Both in that order? Multi-story playhouse? Inquiring minds want to know!

This. Maybe though the stage and into the sub-stage storage area? Did she start out on the roof of the building, the rafters, or some kind of attic?

/WE NEED ANSWERS, DAMMIT!

In many theatres you can walk around above the ceiling. This is how one adjust the lights, recessed into the lighting bays and integrated into the ceiling, which point wherever the lighting plot dictates. When you are moving around up there, it is quite possible that some places are "no step". If you hit the wrong sport, you go through. Anyone in the house would see you crash through the ceiling and plummet to the seats or aisles.

/Hated being told what not to move, where not go. Spirit killing nonsense.

xanadian: Blues_X: Sybarite: Yes, but what do the logs say?


"We're big, we're heavy, we're wood."

It's better than bad, it's good!

I expected talking logs to bring out more of a lynch mob.

Out! Out, damned "sport"!

Came for snaggletooth, left happy.

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stagepoke:

It was in rural north Florida. Very, very non-union

cr0sh:

FWIW, I used to climb buildings for kicks when I was in my teens & twenties, as well. Looking back on that from my forties, I can only say that I was a fairly reckless (but lucky) kid. My mortality was not foremost on my mind.

/probably explains most EXTREEEEME sports

Heavens to Murgatroyd. Exit: stage ceiling

In a cowardly manner even...

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And this little jem:
Jail time for man arrested 153 times - 8/18/2009

/embigginated for fun

I have some friends working there, I'm surprised I'm hearing about it first on Fark. I've been there, but never worked there. I'm in agreement with the other speculators that it was probably an electrician working in the ceiling. The theatre where I'm working now has the same sort of deal. To replace the house lights you have to walk on the support beams in the ceiling, if you step in the wrong spot, you go through.

cr0sh: droosan: When I was 19, I handled lighting for a local community theatre. In order to do this, I had to climb around the rafters -- four stories above the audience seats -- with no safety cables or nets (and no formal training). It's a wonder I never ended up like this woman.

/when you're 19, you don't think about such things; you're INVINCIBLECERTIFIABLY STUPID

FTFY.

For the record, droosan, I don't believe you are that dumb now, but to have done that at 19 and not to understand that "gee, if I fall, I am likely dead" doesn't speak well for you state of mind or comprehension at that age.

When I was 16, I mowed my neighbor's lawn and did other "around the yard" tasks, whatever he wanted. I was saving money to purchase a stereo (still have it, too). One thing he had me do every now and then, after I had strapped on the gas-powered, 2-cycle, backpack-style leaf blower (heavy commercial unit), was to go on his roof and blow the leaves off. One area he wanted me to do, and stupid me did it, was to blow off the leaves from the roof of his porch. This "roof" was composed of 2 x 8 foot panels of corrugated fiberglass panels over a series spaced apart of 2x6 rafters. I had to carefully walk on the rafters, balancing against the force of the blower, to blow all the leaves off the roof (it was about a 20 x 20 foot area).

All I could think about was how if I screwed up and fell, I was possibly going to end up fairly injured, especially if I fell through and landed on the concrete below. I think I only cleaned that roof a couple of times. Honestly, that was two times too many.

Then, at 19, or now, I would not consider myself "invincible" and climb among rafters without any safety harness 40+ feet from the ground. In fact, I can't think of any time in my life that I ever considered myself "invincible". That isn't to say I haven't done stupid things, nor is it to say I have never been injured doing stupid things, but I am well aware that I can and will someday die; let's just hope it isn't in a painful manner when that day comes (although I have my doubts - I honestly think that every death is likely painful in some manner, even "dying in your sleep").

Back when I worked for the government, I got to paint the after smokestack on a moving destroyer. At sea. Swinging like an external bell-clapper. At 19, it seemed like a reasonable thing to do.
/thread jack off

So I always thought it was 'Mergatroid', googled it and, lo...

/murgatroyd it is

"The person was listed as a "female subject" in the logs, which also indicated that the person was "unable to move (her) right leg" after falling. The person's head and neck were fine, as was her breathing, the logs show."

Great, but what about the knees?

stagepoke: At which point the IATSE crew asked to see her Equity card, and since she didn't have one, pushed her off the front of the stage.

I'm not sure a stagehand would care if an actor was Equity.

Plus, assuming a 2 hand push, they would have to put down the doughnut. Not likely.

Plus, assuming a 2 hand push, they would have to put down the doughnut. Not likely.

Oh, it's a 3 person job, one hand each, and shop steward to hold our coffee.

And yes, we would care. On a union stage, you need someone card to get on the stage, otherwise you might see us not working.

simpsonfan: Were they doing that Scottish play?

You mean Macbeth?

/Aahhhhh. Hot potato, off his drawers, Puck will make amends. Aaahh.

stagepoke: Plus, assuming a 2 hand push, they would have to put down the doughnut. Not likely.

Oh, it's a 3 person job, one hand each, and shop steward to hold our coffee.

And yes, we would care. On a union stage, you need someone card to get on the stage, otherwise you might see us not working.

I was at a load in today and was shocked to see no one sleeping in the boxes.

I read the headline in Snaggletooth's voice, all whiney even.

I'm too lazy to look and see if it's been pointed out already, but(trick), last line of article:

"Ogunquit police are not investigating the incident and had no other information, wrote Sgt. Matthew Buttrick in an Aug. 17 e-mail to the Coast Star."

Sergeant Buttrick, can you please show officer Analfunn how to properly use his weapon?