COVID Cancellations — Page 65

pagereynolds said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "broadfan327 said: "I was at Six this afternoon, no announced replacements."

And the onstage musicians are wearing masks now… that’s a keeper!"

They were wearing masks when we saw the show back in October."

They were also all masked when I saw the show in September and November. When did they stop wearing masks?

I saw on Adrienne Warren’s IG stories from last week that the Tina band also wears masks now. I think that’s a change since all of the closures.

I hear people are coming back from vacations etc. at Little Shop this week, and I assume (I hope?) that also means Jeremy Jordan will be back if that sways any decisions.

Moulin Rouge! returned today at 5… six understudies and four swings… including Tasia Jungbauer’s Arabia debut!

adotburr said: "Just a heads up NYC might get hit with some snow tomorrow and Friday, and rain on Wednesday. Thankfully my bus got cancelled for this weekend. As much as I love NYC, I hate nothing more than walking around in slush."

Um, I mean, it's January.

pagereynolds said: "adotburr said: "Just a heads up NYC might get hit with some snow tomorrow and Friday, and rain on Wednesday. Thankfully my bus got cancelled for this weekend. As much as I love NYC, I hate nothing more than walking around in slush."

Um, I mean, it's January."

Um, yeah I know it’s January. The point of your reply is…?

I was commenting on ArtMan’s post re: bad weather conditions.

Mrs. Doubtfire is taking a 9 week pause. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/theater/mrs-doubtfire-broadway.html

I'm glad I saw it also. 9 weeks? Not to be negative, but I don't know if this will reopen?

ljay889 said: "Mrs. Doubtfire is taking a 9 week pause.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/theater/mrs-doubtfire-broadway.html"

This is very hard and sad to hear, especially when you hear that there were very few understudies on the past few performances.

VotePeron said: "Looks like American Utopia and Cursed Child have each closed off their balcony seats for Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday performances in January.

This is very common practice at both the St. James and Lyric theaters, but this will be the first time Cursed Child has done in its run."

I was looking at tickets for Girl From The North Country and they also had their balcony closed. I don’t remember if they did this precovid

re Doubtfire, this is not sad news, it's great news and hopefully others will follow suit to the point that the League does what it should have done already and put a universal hiatus in place. Ideally with union negotiated terms. The alternative is that we are going to have a lot of people unemployed shortly and not just temporarily.

re the snow, it's not a significant snowfall. Chill, no pun intended.

At the risk of going backward in this thread, I just want to pop in and resolve a separate discussion from earlier in the thread, regarding Assassins:

I went to the show today (thank goodness), and I asked an employee: "why today, but not yesterday?"

I was told that, per union rules, they were waiting on a 2nd negative PCR result for one (or more) of their previously-positive cast members. I'm not sure if there was a delay in the result, or if they didn't know about the 2-test rule until now, but either way, that was the reason I was told.

Which basically means that their wording was deliberately vague and misleading. It was NOT because of "rising COVID rates" in general. But neither was it a result of a sick cast member.

Also, Pasquale's speech before the show stated that 2 company members were out. I only counted 1 missing ensemble track (Rob Morrison). Maybe the other missing person was a band member?

It's the fact that people test positive, and therefore can't work, and that leaves a lot of shows without replacements, etc, add onto that the severe lack of tourism right now, it's not like shows can continue to dump money