New York moments: choir, Broadway casts perform in the street during blackout

People evacuated from a Carnegie Hall concert during a blackout due to widespread power outages in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S, listen to the choir singing on the street in this still frame obtained via social media video July 13, 2019. @MARLINPIE via REUTERS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When a massive blackout plunged much of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday evening, a choir and the casts of Broadway musicals entertained tourists with impromptu performances in the street.

The outages struck at around 7 p.m. (2300 GMT), just as many shows were starting at theatres in Midtown and at the Lincoln Center plaza on New York City's Upper West Side.