A motorcycle backfired in Times Square, sparking a stampede of people afraid it was another shooter

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The incident interrupted several Broadway shows, with audiences and actors told to stay inside theaters.

, audience members at the Shubert Theatre panicked, ran down the aisles and ducked for cover. Pedestrians also rushed into the Shubert lobby for safety.

"Stopped our show tonight due to a motorcycle backfire that was mistaken for a bomb or a shooting. Screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety. The audience started screaming and the cast fled the stage. This is the world we live in. This cannot be our world," Gideon Glick, who plays Truman Capote in the show, tweeted.

Stopped our show tonight due to a motorcycle backfire that was mistaken for a bomb or a shooting. Screaming civilians tried to storm our theater for safety. The audience started screaming and the cast fled the stage. This is the world we live in. This cannot be our world.star Andrew Barth Feldman tweeting"People were sobbing, calling their loved ones, hiding behind seats and in the dressing rooms, and were separated from their families and groups.

This is how screwed up our country is. We all had to stay in our dressing rooms, audience members had to stay in the theater. People were sobbing, calling their loved ones, hiding behind seats and in the dressing rooms, and were separated from their families and groups.

 

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