Even the musicians rose to their feet while playing in the orchestra pit.

"It had nothing to do with the orchestra pit, though," he said.

But she added: "You have to be stupid to fall into the orchestra pit."

The steps and the bridge across the orchestra pit are gone.

However, she walked off stage and into the orchestra pit.

Now orchestra pits are designed much better and have a lot of different uses.

An orchestra pit can be created at floor level in various formations.

From the orchestra pit there comes a roll of drums.

At one point in the last act, the orchestra pit went dark, forcing the players to stop for several minutes.

He has also built real bridges from the stage over the orchestra pit into the audience.