A man survived a fall out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street yesterday after landing on the marquee, fire officials said.
Witnesses told The Post the older man was milling around a second-floor hall at 2:50 p.m. — 10 minutes before showtime — when he leaned on heavy curtains covering the window of a French door along the wall.
The door opened — and the man tumbled two or three feet outside, toppling onto the marquee for “The Nance,” starring Nathan Lane.
“He fell backwards and landed on the [marquee],’’ said witness Andrew Castillo, 22, of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Stewart Goldburg, of Commack, LI, was just getting to his seat when the bizarre incident occurred.
“There were people looking at him through the window,” he recalled. “They wouldn’t let you go near the window. He was out there for 15 minutes.”
“I was talking to an usher, and she couldn’t figure out how he had fallen because the doors are normally locked,” Goldburg said.
A nearby restaurant manager added: “They took him off the [marquee], and I saw him on a stretcher.”
The man was taken to Bellevue Hospital for minor chest and back injuries.