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Broadway shutting down all productions over coronavirus pandemic
NY Post ^ | March 12, 2020 | 2:07pm | By Michael Riedel

Posted on 03/12/2020 11:44:48 AM PDT by Red Badger

Broadway will shut down for four to six weeks beginning tonight, due to the coronavirus outbreak, several sources told The Post. In what is the worst crisis the industry has faced since the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, several shows will not be able to recover. “The Minutes,” a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts that was to open Sunday night, is likely to close and never return.

Martin McDonagh’s acclaimed “Hangmen” is also unlikely to open this season, though it could come back in the fall. “Sing Street,” a new musical currently in rehearsals, will try to open in the fall, propped up by money from Barbara Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond movies. “The Phantom of the Opera,” Broadway’s longest-running show that draws heavily on foreign tourists, may well close down for good, sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bluezones; broadway; nyc; urban
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To: SaveFerris

That was a movie. Did they adapt it for the stage as well?


21 posted on 03/12/2020 12:35:35 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Daaave

I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway


22 posted on 03/12/2020 12:36:43 PM PDT by xp38
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To: SaveFerris

...A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk...


23 posted on 03/12/2020 12:36:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Red Badger

And the light dies down on Broadway.


24 posted on 03/12/2020 12:38:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaveFerris
It’s a mighty long way
From Milan to Minsk....
25 posted on 03/12/2020 12:38:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: dfwgator

Bee Gees!...................


26 posted on 03/12/2020 12:39:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: Red Badger

Genesis.


27 posted on 03/12/2020 12:40:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Never was a big Genesis fan.

Bee Gees had a “Nights on Broadway” song as well...................


28 posted on 03/12/2020 12:46:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: Red Badger

What????!!!

No Hamilton?????


29 posted on 03/12/2020 1:06:23 PM PDT by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA
Democrats create hype and substantially hurt many people financially.

Dems and the media.

30 posted on 03/12/2020 1:07:27 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

Yay!


31 posted on 03/12/2020 5:31:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: xp38; Gamecock; Larry Lucido

It was Rochelle, Rochelle the Musical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kgpVUE9RpQ

And then she broke her shoelace


32 posted on 03/12/2020 5:36:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rebelbase

And a musical!


33 posted on 03/12/2020 5:36:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido

And with a Tonya Harding twist! (sorta)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzSry3uDpGw

Get out of my cab!


34 posted on 03/12/2020 5:39:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if “pandemic” is a variation of “pandemonium”. If so, a lot of this chaos makes sense.

History and Etymology for pandemonium: PAN- + Late Latin daemonium “evil spirit,” borrowed from Greek daimónion “evil spirit,” (with -ium probably to be read as Latin -ium or Greek -ion, suffixes of place) — more at DEMON

pandemonium, residence of all demons/devils, hell
pandemonium, a ‘hellish’ chaos, notably terrible noise and disorder


35 posted on 03/12/2020 5:52:21 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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