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<div class="EC_EC_MsoNormal"><font color="purple" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: purple; font-family: Arial;">This is from today’s NY Times…</span></font></div>
<div class="EC_EC_MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-transform: uppercase; color: black; font-family: Arial;">Arts, Briefly</span></font></div>
<div class="EC_EC_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><font color="black" face="Georgia" size="6"><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Injured Actor Files Petition </span></font></div>
<div class="EC_EC_MsoNormal"><font color="gray" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: gray; font-family: Arial;">By <a title="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/campbell_robertson/index.html?inline=nyt-per
More Articles by Campbell Robertson" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/campbell_robertson/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">CAMPBELL ROBERTSON</a>; Compiled by <a title="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/lawrence_van_gelder/index.html?inline=nyt-per
More Articles by Lawrence Van Gelder" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/lawrence_van_gelder/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">LAWRENCE VAN GELDER</a></span></font></div>
<div class="EC_EC_MsoNormal"><font color="gray" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; color: gray; font-family: Arial;">Published: May 16, 2008</span></font></div>
<div style="line-height: 18pt;"><font face="Georgia" size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia;">An
actor who was injured last Saturday when he fell through a trap door on
the set of “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” has asked for a court order to
preserve a prop in the show as evidence for a potential lawsuit. In the
petition, filed on Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, <span class="EC_EC_bold1"><b>Adrian Bailey</b></span>,
above, asked that Disney and the Nederlander Organization, which owns
the Lunt Fontanne Theater, the show’s home, be ordered to preserve a
“certain show prop sailing ship,” as well as the prop’s design and
repair records, so they can be inspected. Mr. Bailey, 51, fell through
a trap door on the sailing ship and landed on the stage 30 to 40 feet
below, according to court papers. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital
Center, where he is being treated for fractured wrists, a broken back,
a shattered pelvis, a fractured sternum, several fractured ribs and a
fractured foot. He has undergone four surgeries, the court papers said.
Officials from the Nederlander Organization declined to comment.
Officials from Disney Theatrical Productions said they were
investigating the accident.</span></font></div>
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</span></font></div></div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> To those NYC people who know and our friends of Adrian.<br>
We KNOW he is on the mend and he KNOWS that we are all with him in prayer and meditation.</span></font><br> <br><br>Dale Ricardo Shields<br><br><br></body>
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