{"id":766190,"date":"2022-01-25T20:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/watch-home-of-off-broadways-perfect-crime-temporarily-closed-due-to-crime\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:07:44","slug":"watch-home-of-off-broadways-perfect-crime-temporarily-closed-due-to-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/watch-home-of-off-broadways-perfect-crime-temporarily-closed-due-to-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Home of off-Broadway&#8217;s &#8216;Perfect Crime&#8217; temporarily closed due to crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Home-of-off-Broadways-Perfect-Crime-temporarily-closed-due-to-crime.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"uhDBaib8sdE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Perfect Crime&quot; theater robbed of copper pipes in real life whodunit\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uhDBaib8sdE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 25 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> An off-Broadway play appropriately titled <i>Perfect Crime<\/i> had to cancel some performances due to a real crime &#8212; someone stole the copper pipes from the theater&#8217;s basement.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Russell, general manager of the Theater Center on West 50th Street in New York City and lead actress in <i>Perfect Crime<\/i>, said she discovered something was amiss when the water and heat weren&#8217;t working on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Russell said she went into the building&#8217;s basement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I turned the water on and I realized water was spraying everywhere because there were no pipes to fill the water,&#8221; Russell told WLNY-TV. &#8220;I discovered that thieves had taken all the copper pipes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russell found a door in the basement had been shattered and there were bullet casings on the floor. She said security cameras captured another attempted break-in on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boy, that was one angry man,&#8221; Russell told WABC-TV. &#8220;He was kicking with these big boots. Kicking, kicking, kicking, the glass door. Pretty violent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The theater had to cancel about 12 performances between <i>Perfect Crime<\/i> and <i>The Office: A Musical Parody<\/i>, another show at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>Russell said police haven&#8217;t made any arrests in the theft. She said repairs cost about $20,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got a weekend off and better piping and better security, so it has a happy ending,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 25 (UPI) &#8212; An off-Broadway play appropriately titled Perfect Crime had to cancel some performances due to a real crime &#8212; someone stole the copper pipes from the theater&#8217;s basement. Catherine Russell, general manager of the Theater Center on West 50th Street in New York City and lead actress in Perfect Crime, said she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}