A concert in Milwaukee with Patti LaBelle came to a sudden end this weekend after a bomb threat forced the R&B legend to leave the stage mid-show and the near-capacity audience to evacuate the theater.
shows the 78-year-old LaBelle chatting with an audience member who was celebrating her 70th birthday, and receiving a bouquet of flowers from another fan in the front row, when two men, seemingly her security personnel, briskly walked up to LaBelle at the microphone.Catherine Brunson, who was at Saturday's show, told the Journal Sentinel that the evacuation happened barely two songs into LaBelle's performance, around 9:24 p.m. She estimated the theater was near full capacity.
"Somebody got on a microphone and said we have to evacuate the building because there was a bomb threat," said Brunson,"We came out and police had the block taped off. ... A whole lot of people were pretty upset. ... It's scary." "It happened so quickly," Scott Pierce, who also attended Saturday's show, messaged to the Journal Sentinel."Everybody very calmly exited the theater in a disbelieving manner. I heard lots of comments about how sad it was that someone would pull such a pathetic stunt."
Pierce added:"Before the incident, the crowd was really enjoying Patti. Just sad that someone does this." As of early Sunday, none of LaBelle's social media pages posted a statement related to the evacuation. USA TODAY has reached out to LaBelle's representative for comment."We are thankful for the efforts of the Milwaukee Police Department and our customers and staff for their safe and orderly exit," according to the statement."We are working with the artist to reschedule the show.
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