By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo.com Reporter/Producers
MANHATTAN — The show must go on, even if it looks like the theater is on fire.
A smoke condition in a balcony at the Metropolitan Opera House Monday night during a performance of an opera version of Hamlet prompted many audience members to flee, the Daily News reported.
No one fled in a panic, a Met spokesman told DNAinfo. Some opera-goers just decided to leave.
The fire department received a call about a potential fire at 9:16 p.m., and deployed six units, totaling 60 firefighters, to Lincoln Center opera house, the FDNY said.
The theater was determined not to be on fire, and the smoke was attributed to a malfunctioning stage light, fire officials said.
Despite the uproar, the show did not stop, Casey Elsass, a MET representative, told the News.