By the afternoon, the Red Cross had set up a reception center in a school auditorium a few blocks away.
When I left the auditorium a few hours later, the situation had calmed down somewhat, but there was a hangover from the earlier chaos.
As the candidates attacked Obama at an auditorium a few blocks form the White House, the president called reporters to the Oval Office following his briefing from FBI Director James Comey.
At Bolingbrook High School southwest of Chicago, about 200 students viewed the address on a large screen in an auditorium, and a few of them looked downright drowsy.
Stern-looking ushers dressed as security guards led the audience into the auditorium, pausing every few moments to inspect tickets and warn people that they were subject to deportation.
At past meetings, the agencies delivered the presentation to a full auditorium, with a few hours set aside for (angry) questions from the audience.
So he took the seemingly remarkable step this term of selecting an auditorium that holds fewer students than the typical venue in part because it lacked Wi-Fi service.
The night I saw it, a person looking very much like Harvey Weinstein was lurking in the auditorium, one of the few old heads in a very young crowd.
So while his friend was sequestered with 250 others in the lunchroom, Ishmael was among a lucky four or five dozen students in the auditorium, sitting just a few rows away as Mr. Clinton reminisced about three of his childhood music teachers and stood by as a music foundation promised $5 million worth of musical instruments to city schools over the next five years.
At the moment, London's most highly touted new play, Polly Stenham's Tusk Tusk, is playing in a tiny auditorium to a select few while the populace at large has not much more than Sister Act and The Phantom of the Opera 2 to choose from.
