Broadway Theaters to Reopen at Full Capacity by Mid-September 2021

Associated Press viaEpoch Times ^ | 05/05/2021

[SeekAndFind]

NEW YORK—Many Broadway productions are scrambling to resume ticket sales in the coming days to welcome theater-goers this fall after city and state leaders have green-lit a reopening of the Great White Way at full capacity by mid-September.

“We remain cautiously optimistic about Broadway’s ability to resume performances this fall and are happy that fans can start buying tickets again,” Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, said in a statement Wednesday.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Broadway theaters can reopen Sept. 14 and will be allowed to decide their own entry requirements, like whether people must prove they’ve been vaccinated to attend a show. Selling tickets will allow theaters to gauge interest before stages open, said Robert Mujica, Cuomo’s budget director.

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 actors and stage managers in live theater, said the news meant the theater community is “one step closer to the safe reopening” of Broadway.

“We look forward to continuing our conversations with the Broadway League about a safe reopening and know that soon the time will come when members can go back to doing what they do best, creating world-class theater,” said Mary McColl, executive director of Actors’ Equity.

The Broadway that reopens will look different. In May, the big budget Disney musical “Frozen” decided not to reopen when Broadway theaters restart, marking the first time an established show had been felled by the coronavirus pandemic. Producers of “Mean Girls” also decided not to restart.

But there will be new shows, including Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over” that is slated to reopen the August Wilson Theatre, the same venue “Mean Girls” has vacated. And a Shubert theater has been promised for playwright Keenan Scott II’s play “Thoughts of a Colored Man.”

[a fool in paradise]

And what of concert venues?

[alternatives?]

In May they know September is OK to open? Before it was only going to be two weeks to flatten the curve. If they couldn’t forecast beyond two weeks, how can they forecast four months?

[wally_bert]

From Times Square to Columbus Circle—the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.”

[SeekAndFind]

RE: And what of concert venues?

We can start with Broadway and if all goes well, Converts will follow.

The lifting of all capacity restrictions has long been considered by the industry as crucial to any reopening plan since Broadway economics demand full venue capacity. Some off-Broadway shows have already reopened with limited capacity.

[SeekAndFind]

I meant to say CONCERTS will follow ( I made a typo in my previous post ).

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Broadway is my beat …

[wally_bert]

A favorite OTR show.

[conservative98]

And could require vaccination or negative test verification.

[PGalt]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube+give+my+regards+to+broadway&t=osx&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEpVq9-oID-g

won’t be there.

[conservative98]

And double masks.

[jocon307]

Surprised about Frozen, I figured all the Disney shows would be back. I’d like to take my grandkids to see Lion King, that was really a great show. I wasn’t keen to go, but it was fabulous, I’d love to see it again.

Of course Bway can’t work without full houses, but I’m not too optimistic.

In Joe Biden’s America I can see everyone making all the effort to reopen, rehearsing the shows, buying the tickets, booking the travel and then oh around August 20th the “powers that be” pulling the plug on the whole thing. And for sure blaming Trump and white people for it.

[Dilbert San Diego]

If that happens, of course Trump will be blamed.

It was years into the Obama administration, that Obama and his lackeys blamed their problems on leftover problems left over from the Bush administration.

Even four years in, remember Bill Clinton’s speech supporting Obama’s re-election, in which Bill said that there were so many problems created by Bush, that it would take more than the four years of Obama’s first term to fix everything.

So I expect the Biden/Harris administration to blame Trump for everything for years.

[DoodleBob]

I posted this previously when case and fatalities were rising in the fall, which Broadway will likely see this September.

We need to guard against autumnal hysteria and vernal cheering, because there is likely a SEASONAL DIMENSION to cases and fatalities, and not necessarily a "surge" or a "new strain of the virus" or the results of triple-masking, vaccines, or statist policies.

The majority of deaths in most countries can be attributed to causes that feature a distinct seasonal pattern. The figure depicts the relative monthly frequencies of nine selected causes of death in the United States for women and men combined for the years 1959–2014. The reported number of counts in parentheses in the title of each panel is the actual number of deaths.

Viruses gonna virus. Even non-viruses gonna non-virus.

A very likely reality, is that this bug will be with us forever - like influenza, it'll be a highly contagious but more fatal (case fatality rate of about 1.8% vs 0.2% for influenza) and seasonal annoyance.

My guess is Broadway will chose Woke hysteria over commerce when the bug rises again.

In reality, this September, we should follow the policy prescriptions of a wise FReeper: Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.

[political1]

They will only be at full capacity if people are buying the tickets.

[Sooth2222]

How much are they willing to pay theater goers to attend a show?

No matter how much, it can't be enough.

[HIDEK6]

Those commies can go to hell for all I care.

[Truthoverpower]

They theeeeenk they got rid of TRUMP! No WAY JOSE !

[HotKat]

I will never visit New York again.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Broadway, China Town, Little Italy, Midtown Manhattan will never be the same as it was before CoVid,until every New York Democrat is removed from office. Cuomo & DeBlasio must go...immediately or New York will continue to die with each passing day!!!

Miami will become the”New” New York business, investment center of the USA and Palm Beach County will become the “NEW” Broadway Theater Center!!! Florida & Texas grow, New York & California die!!!