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London - The city authorities were carrying out inspections of London's West End theatres, intent on avoiding any further collapses like the one at the Apollo Theatre, where a falling ceiling injured more than 80 people watching a play in the packed house.迷你倉尖沙咀Westminster City Council will report on a structural assessment of the Apollo, a 112-year-old Edwardian theatre where the collapse occurred on Thursday. As a precaution, said council official Nickie Aiken, "all historic theatres are carrying out further safety checks".Some of the estimated 720 spectators at the Apollo reported that water had been dripping slightly from the ceiling before cracking noises were heard and a 30 sq ft chunk came crashing down with the chandelier, knocking off parts of the balconies and smashing down on the stalls below. Seven of the people struck by debris were seriously injured.There had been heavy rain and winds on Wednesday and a thunderstorm on Thursday about an hour before the 8.15pm collapse.The pre-Christmas crowd was watching The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, adapted from a novel by Mark Haddon."It has been horrifying sitting here watching what has倉been happening at the Apollo this evening," Mr Haddon said on Twitter. "I am hugely relieved that no one has died."The four-storey theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue is steeply graded and has three cantilevered balconies under what had been a beautiful domed plaster ceiling. The last such ceiling collapse was in 1973, at the Shaftesbury Theatre, during a performance of the musical Hair.London Mayor Boris Johnson said investigations into the cause of the collapse were continuing.All the main theatre owners met on Friday and announced that all of their safety certificates and inspections were up to date, and they would open as usual. An average of 32,000 people visit the West End theatres every evening.The theatre owners have repeatedly called over the past decade for government help to modernise the buildings.If the theatre collapse were not enough, 32 people were injured on Friday, seven seriously, after a double-decker bus smashed into a tree in south London, near the Imperial War Museum.Some passengers were trapped inside for several hours before firefighters cut through the body of the bus. There was no indication of the cause of the crash.New York Timesmini storage