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COVID Cancellations
COVID performance cancellation#1600
Posted: 1/2/22 at 5:52pm
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
COVID performance cancellation#1601
Posted: 1/2/22 at 5:56pm
Bought a TDF ticket for MOCKINGBIRD. Of course I hope all remain healthy but if they must cancel the performance I'm attending, please let the closing to be announced before I step onto the train.
COVID performance cancellation#1602
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:02pm
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.
COVID performance cancellation#1603
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:05pm
Alexander Lamar said: "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 seem to remember they were not wearing masks in early December, but when Omicron cases started rising in the US, they put them on (just days before their pause).
COVID performance cancellation#1604
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:08pm
Moulin Rouge! returned today at 5… six understudies and four swings… including Tasia Jungbauer’s Arabia debut!
COVID performance cancellation#1605
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:08pm
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.
COVID performance cancellation#1606
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:09pm
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.
COVID performance cancellation#1607
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:09pm
Double message, sorry
Updated On: 1/2/22 at 06:09 PMCOVID performance cancellation#1608
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:17pm
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.
COVID performance cancellation#1609
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:18pm
adotburr said: "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."
My point was you don't really book January theatre tickets expecting good weather.
COVID performance cancellation#1610
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:33pm
Mrs. Doubtfire is taking a 9 week pause. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/theater/mrs-doubtfire-broadway.html
COVID performance cancellation#1611
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:37pm
ljay889 said: "Mrs. Doubtfire is taking a 9 week pause.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/theater/mrs-doubtfire-broadway.html"
Wow. Good thing I saw it early then.
COVID performance cancellation#1612
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:41pm
I'm glad I saw it also. 9 weeks? Not to be negative, but I don't know if this will reopen?
COVID performance cancellation#1613
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:42pm
I hope that they (and anyone else who tries this) can re-open in the spring.
COVID performance cancellation#1614
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:45pm
"So long as “Mrs. Doubtfire” is open, its expenses are about $700,000 a week, whether or not performances actually take place, because employees are paid even if a performance is canceled. And expenses have recently risen because of increased testing, along with additional costs associated with keeping a show going when staff members test positive.
McCollum said the show grossed about $900,000 from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2, which was more than its running costs but less than the $1.3 million he had expected for the holiday week. He added he was expecting the show’s weekly grosses to drop below $400,000 following the holidays — always a soft time for Broadway, and now even more so. He said he is hopeful that by March the pandemic will have eased and tourism and group sales will strengthen."
Sounds like a smart move financially, though very disappointing for the cast and crew who will be out of work. I hope the show does come back.
COVID performance cancellation#1615
Posted: 1/2/22 at 6:47pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Alexander Lamar said: "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 seem to remember they were not wearing masks in early December, but when Omicron cases started rising in the US, they put them on (just days before their pause)."
I just watched a Megasix from opening night and they are indeed unmasked. Apparently I remembered wrong. Baffling and foolish.
COVID performance cancellation#1616
Posted: 1/2/22 at 7:07pm
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
COVID performance cancellation#1617
Posted: 1/2/22 at 7:21pm
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.
COVID performance cancellation#1618
Posted: 1/2/22 at 7:24pm
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
COVID performance cancellation#1619
Posted: 1/2/22 at 7:35pm
I have a REALLY REALLY hard time seeing all of Broadway shut down because there just isn't the same health risk anymore (most Omicron cases are mild) and now everybody on Broadway has had it, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other newer shows also skip out on January and/or February just because of the financials.
COVID performance cancellation#1620
Posted: 1/2/22 at 7:51pm
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.
COVID performance cancellation#1621
Posted: 1/2/22 at 7:56pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "ljay889 said: "Mrs. Doubtfire is taking a 9 week pause.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/theater/mrs-doubtfire-broadway.html"
Wow. Good thing I saw it early then."
I also feel very fortunate to have caught this last Sunday with pretty much the entire cast. I really enjoyed it and was hoping to catch it again. From what I can tell, it was a packed house so I’m very surprise they are pausing for 9 weeks.
COVID performance cancellation#1622
Posted: 1/2/22 at 7:59pm
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?
COVID performance cancellation#1623
Posted: 1/2/22 at 8:22pm
If Doubtfire wasn't able to sustain in January I don't know how Tina and Girl from North Country can. Lookin at this up coming week both have less than 200 seats sold for each performance. Be interesting to see how many others follow suit with short term hiatus.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
COVID performance cancellation#1624
Posted: 1/2/22 at 9:42pm
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
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