On a castle terrace, in front of a backdrop painted with gardens, Fatima, believing her love Selim was dead, agrees to marry Blue Beard. He gives her the key to the castle, but warns her not to open the blue chamber. With tunes about the songbirds of Melody Lane, and the beer that made Milwaukee famous, a piano score of "In The Pale Moonlight" began.

What also began at this very moment, three-fifteen P.M., was a small fire caused by sparks from a short circuit in a stage spot light. These sparks quickly spread throughout the stage in a matter of minutes, and the protective curtain above the the stage, designed to keep fire from reaching the audience, never fell.

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