Students’ necks cut in school musical with razor prop

A high school musical in New Zealand got a little too real when two boys ended up in hospital after a prop razor used in a throat-slitting scene cut their necks.

Students at Saint Kentigern College in Auckland were performing the opening night of Sweeney Todd for parents and other audience members when things went badly wrong.

Set in Victorian London, the musical depicts a barber who slits his customer’s throats with a razor and uses the bodies to make meat pies.