On Aug. 15, Stacey Luce and her husband, Steve, excitedly entered Broadway’s Hayes Theater for an evening performance of the new farce “The Cottage.” It was the Dallas-based couple’s first trip to New York City and, after seeing “Wicked” on tour in June, they wanted to catch a few Broadway shows.
The two had been out walking in Times Square the night before and “the poster on the outside [of the Hayes] caught my eye,” Stacey Luce recalled. “I was like, ‘Hey, that’s ‘Will & Grace’ Will!’ Then I started reading, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s George from ‘Seinfeld’ doing the directing. We gotta go.’”
The Luces bought tickets and made it to their seats by 6:45 p.m. for the 7 p.m. curtain. Suddenly, “the room did a kind of weird vertigo spin and then went black,” Stacey said. “The next thing I knew I was in the emergency room at Mount Sinai West.”
