<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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.<div><div><div dir="ltr">-Ian Millholland</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 20, 2024, at 11:36, Jeffrey Kanyuck via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Hitting the orchestra pit net situation. We have a new theater designed for us with a movable orchestra pit.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> We actually had someone fall into our other theater’s pit last spring and luckily it had a net.
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 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?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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