“As it was coming up, I was thinking, ‘Oh no, how’s he going to be able to handle the solo?’”: Audience member at a live orchestral performance of La La Land wows both conductor and crowd as he steps in for ailing keyboard player at the half-time interval

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In what feels like it could have been a scene from the movie itself, a piano-playing audience member at an orchestral showing of the 2016 musical La La Land has just stepped in for the on-stage keyboard player after they fell ill during the interval.

The Hollywood-worthy incident took place in Sydney, Australia on Saturday at the ICC’s Darling Harbour theatre. The first half of the show had proceeded without incident, but as the scheduled interval stretched out to 40 minutes, audience members started to wonder what was going on.