Patti LaBelle rushed off stage, theater evacuated after bomb threat during Milwaukee concert

Patti LaBelle performs during the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Washington, in 2021. The singer was abruptly rushed off stage shortly after her Christmas concert began on Saturday night in Milwaukee when a bomb threat forced authorities to evacuate the theater where she was performing. (AP)

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Patti LaBelle was abruptly rushed off stage just a couple of songs into her Christmas concert in Milwaukee after a bomb threat forced authorities to evacuate the theater.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that video from the Riverside Theater on Saturday night shows what appears to be two security officers interrupting the 78-year-old LaBelle as she chats with an audience member. They rush her off stage. Shortly after, someone announced that the nearly full 2,500-seat theater had to be evacuated because of a bomb threat.