The music of the night was a chorus of barfing.
At least 13 members of a high-school choir from Virginia — in town to see “Phantom of the Opera’’ — wound up at a hospital with food poisoning Saturday.
“We got here yesterday and had a great time,’’ said Katrina Rupert, 17. “At least until the puking started.’’
Four of the 84 kids who made the trip were taken out of their balcony seats at the Majestic Theatre during the performance.
Others staggered out during intermission, and still others stuck it out until the show’s final organ strains.
The group had dinner Friday at Bubba Gump Shrimp and lunch Saturday at Dallas BBQ.
“I ate and then 20 minutes later, it felt like someone punched me in the stomach,’’ said Madeline Sweeney, 15.
One student’s mom, Beatrice Thompson, who was serving as a chaperone, refused to blame the food. “I ate all that food right up,’’ she said. “It was delicious.’’
Katrina and her classmates all loved the show. “The music was great,’’ she said. And the fries she ate for lunch were “awesome,” she said, as she bent over holding her sore stomach.
The kids were expected to be treated and released.
Carlos Gudil, the manager of Dallas BBQ, said “we had no reports of people being sick.’’ Bubba Gump’s manager declined to comment.
Additional reporting by Chris Perez and Matt McNulty