Britney Concert Goes Up in Smoke
E! Online, Apr 9, 2009 10:00 am PDTThe latest stop on Britney Spears' Circus tour featured a little too much smoke and not enough mirrors. "Please extinguish all cigarettes…The show will resume as soon as the air around the stage is clear."
The pop star has issued an apology to ticket holders of last night's Vancouver show after smoky conditions on stage led to a 30-minute delay of the concert—a delay that came just three songs in after Spears walked off stage without explanation, leaving the crowd to sit (and boo) in the dark arena.
"The building is awfully smoky," an announcer finally explained to the sold-out crowd, per the Vancouver Sun. "It's become uncomfortable and unsafe for the performers, including Ms. Spears.
A spokesman for Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment, which owns GM Place, the Vancouver venue where the concert was held, said that despite initial reports claiming the smoky air was a byproduct of toking-up concertgoers, the smoke was believed to be from cigarettes, not marijuana.
(The rep did not comment on why anything was being lit up in the first place, given as smoking indoors is illegal there.)
"We want to apologize to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney's set," reads a statement on Spears' blog. "Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue."
(Originally published April 9, 2009, at 6:55 a.m. PT.)
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