<em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> Broadway show ends abruptly as motorcycle backfire mistaken for gunshots
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A Broadway performance of To Kill a Mockingbird ended in panic as people mistook a motorcycle backfire outside for gunshots and fled the Shubert Theatre in New York City.Gideon Glick, an actor in the play starring Jeff Daniels, tweeted that the show stopped as people thought the noise was “a bomb or a shooting.”“Screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety,” he wrote.
As said here by Rachel Yang