{"id":661759,"date":"2026-08-29T06:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661759\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:53:13","slug":"mean-girls-show-cancelled-mid-performance-after-power-cut-at-bord-gais-energy-theatre-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/661759\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Girls show cancelled mid-performance after power cut at Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A musical at Dublin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bord-gais-energy-theatre\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/bord-gais-energy-theatre\">Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre<\/a> had to be cancelled  part-way through a performance on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mean Girls was stopped about 40 to 50 minutes after the start of the show following after a power outage, a spokesman for the theatre confirmed. The musical could not continue after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said details regarding refunds for those in attendance would be made through a \u201cpublic announcement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The performance on Friday began at 7.30pm. The power cut happened before the interval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish Times understands those in attendance moved from the theatre to the lobby area following the power cut. Announcements were made to evacuate the building and the audience was ushered out the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/stage\/review\/2026\/08\/26\/mean-girls-review-fast-paced-stage-show-makes-a-convincing-case-that-its-better-than-the-film\/\">Mean Girls review: Fast-paced stage show makes a convincing case that it\u2019s better than the film<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mean Girls, which has a run time of two-and-a-half-hours, is at the Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre until September 5th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A musical at Dublin\u2019s Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre had to be cancelled part-way through a performance on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[123980,9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-661759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bord-gais-energy-theatre","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117177483911142302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}