[SML] Orch Pit Nets

[Ian Millholland]

Usually it’s musicians that advocate for it, especially if there’s wild-flying props. Many Broadway tours have them up, but they are usually designed to catch small things, not full people.
-Ian Millholland

> On May 20, 2024, at 11:36, Jeffrey Kanyuck via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> Hello All,
>      Hitting the orchestra pit net situation. We have a new theater designed for us with a movable orchestra pit.
> The designers did not feel it was needed to have a net for while the pit was down. They said they have only done it for cruise ships when there is a real change of something going into the pit by accident.
>      We actually had someone fall into our other theater’s pit last spring and luckily it had a net.
>      Isn’t a pit net a standard for the industry? Or is it like hand rails where once the performer is “used” to the situation they can be removed or even less than that?
>      I am concerned that with a new theater we aren’t hitting appropriate standards of safety with this if we don’t have a net.
>  
> Jeff Kanyuck
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