A high school musical in New Zealand got a little too real this week when a prop razor used in a throat-slitting scene ended up cutting the necks of two boys and sending them to a local hospital overnight.
Students at Saint Kentigern College in Auckland were performing the opening night of Sweeney Todd before parents and other audience members on Wednesday when things went badly wrong.
Set in Victorian London, the musical depicts a barber who slits his customer’s throats with a razor and uses the bodies to make meat pies.
The head of Saint Kentigern College, Steve Cole, told reporters the razor used in the show was real but had been bound in duct tape.
He said he has no idea what went wrong during a scene midway through the Second Act.
He said the boys were released from hospital Thursday and were doing well.
Cole said a performance of the play scheduled for Thursday was cancelled but he hoped the show could resume on Friday.
Police along with health and safety officials are investigating the incident.
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