COVID Cancellations — Page 22

Obviously there’s no way of knowing what’s going to happen over the next few days, but the shut downs seem to be happening for only a day or so for most shows. Yes, there are a few that have chosen to close for a week or so but remember that the majority of Broadway shows are still running right now and have not had any sort of cancellations. So, even if Caroline does cancel one or two shows, it’s not a sold out run, so you would be able to get tickets or exchange your tickets for another date if you were in town for a few days. If I were you, I would keep my plans and just keep in mind that statistically you should be fine, even if you need to make adjustments while you’re here.


As someone who shares your love of the show, I REALLY hope it’ll be fine for you.

Laura Osnes was fired due to not being vaccinated and now here we are months later with fully vaccinated cast members getting COVID and shutting down shows. When the vaccines came out the general public was told that they were 80-90% effective in preventing people from getting COVID. I would love to know what the percentage is now, I would guess much lower. I think it has become obvious that the vaccines are basically a flu shot and that the main benefit is helping you with the symptoms. My entire immediate family got COVID (August) at the same time and everyone was fully vaccinated so that makes me believe somebody vaccinated gave it to myself or another family member. I did get booster a couple of weeks ago on advice from my doctor who told me to wait at least 3 months to get it.

This is awful for Broadway due to not only the health of the cast of shows but the business. The holiday season is when Broadway normally rakes in the cash and now they have to cancel performances and give refunds. It is also not good because now tourists may be worried about buying tickets to shows and having them canceled after spending money to get to NYC.

Well, let's hope people recover quickly and their symptoms are mild.

luvcaroline said: "I’ve been closely following this thread and others, but I’m still very torn about what to do and I want your opinions. We booked this trip a couple of months ago, when things were looking much better. Caroline, or Change is my favorite musical of all time and it’s the only reason I booked this trip. I could not imagine missing the opportunity to see this masterpiece. We are both vaxed and boosted, but I’m more concerned that the show will be canceled than I am about getting ill. Our flight leaves tonight, so we have to decide very soon what to do. We will lose a big part of our hotel res if we cancel. We will still be able to use our flight costs for future credit. I know that only we can make this decision, but I really want to know what you guys would do in this situation. We also have tickets for Kimberly Akimbo and Jagged Little Pill, but it won’t be the end of the world if those are canceled."

I have a similar dilemma (non-refundable hotel reservation) for my upcoming January 4-6 trip where I plan to see Assassins (waiting for them to release more tix for my dates), Company, and Caroline, or Change (planning to grab tix for both at TKTS). I’ve been anxious about rise in cases as well as cancellations. Right now I’m still planning to go because I’m vaccinated/boostered so if I were to get infected, I’d most likely have mild symptoms. But also none of my shows have had to cancel due to Covid. So I say go!

Diana’s social media team is just generally great, but I noticed yesterday and today they tweeted once they got test results and could confirm that day’s show(s) wouldn’t be cancelled. Have any other shows started to do that?

https://twitter.com/dianaonbroadway/status/1472223345819140102?s=21

https://twitter.com/dianaonbroadway/status/1471995883935911939?s=21

As I mentioned before, if we accept the idea that the Spanish flu is a template for Covid (and you can apply this more scientifically-soundly to an analysis of the various more recent viral epidemics that we love to ignore), then what we should expect is that the virus will peter out following a certain pattern in which this troubling omicron wave fits like a glove. It is very true that focus on case counts is not especially useful, but we also need to differentiate between, say, an art director at an ad agency being asked to work through a mild case of covid and an actor being expected to. The unique characteristic of the present epidemic is that we are a country in which 40% of the people are idiots and I guess we will have to wait and see whether getting the death toll across the 1 million line will prompt the sea change that will let us move on. If Manhattan were an island nation with border controls, Broadway would not be where we are right now.

I was with Saunders up to #6...

"When the vaccines came out the general public was told that they were 80-90% effective in preventing people from getting COVID. I would love to know what the percentage is now, I would guess much lower."

That information is readily available online JGPR2 and is updated pretty frequently as new data is compiled. It obviously varies based on what vaccines and boosters you have as well as one's age and any underlying conditions. And the percentages of course vary for preventing getting COVID versus preventing severe illness of you contract it.

Updated On: 12/18/21 at 12:13 PM

frogs_fan85 said: "The Jagged matinee is off apparently."

They're cancelling this entire weekend.

With shows giving ticket buyers enough notice of a cance, it does give people time to try and get tickets to another show.

UPDATE:

• TINA - Canceled through Dec. 20
• Mrs. Doubtfire - Canceled through Dec. 19
• MJ - Canceled through Dec. 26
• Hamilton - Canceled through December 19th
• Hadestown - Canceled tonight & Saturday matinee
• Moulin Rouge - Canceled tonight
• Ain't Too Proud - Cancelled through Dec. 21.
• Jagged Little Pill - Cancelled through Dec. 22
• Harry Potter - Saturday matinee cancelled
• Radio City Christmas Spectacular - Remainder of run canceled.

So far so good at Company matinee. TKTS returned a lot of tickets but the box office sold us better seats for lesser price.

ACL2006 said: "UPDATE:

• TINA - Canceled through Dec. 20
• Mrs. Doubtfire - Canceled through Dec. 19
• MJ - Canceled through Dec. 26
• Hamilton - Canceled through December 19th
• Hadestown - Canceled tonight & Saturday matinee
• Moulin Rouge - Canceled tonight
• Ain't Too Proud - Cancelled through Dec. 21.
• Jagged Little Pill - Cancelled through Dec. 22
• Harry Potter - Saturday matinee cancelled
• Radio City Christmas Spectacular - Remainder of run canceled.

"

WOW - this is mind boggling the amount of cancellations this weekend and the amount of theatergoers that had tickets to see these shows. What's next week going to look like - scary to even think about that!? Could The Music Man, Lion King, Aladdin, Caroline and Phantom end up cancelling next week due to covid? UGH!

Apparently Hadestown is cancelling their performances for the rest of the month and resuming in January (according to Broadway Reddit).