COVID Cancellations — Page 76

hollebolle said: "pagereynolds said: "Judy Kuhn posted she just tested positive and will be out of Assassins for the final performances."

I’m seeing it today and they’re holding us in the lobby. I assumed they’re waiting for other tests results, but the house manager just said they’re “figuring out logistics.” I wonder if Lee Harrington, who is on for Sarah Jane Moore, has gone on yet—maybe they’re rehearsing a few things.
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Not sure if she has gone on yet for that role, but I saw her as Emma Goldman last weekend and she was lovely. Judy Kuhn is fantastic, but I'm sure Lee will be great as well.

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Cursed Child in San Francisco had to cancel last night"

They cancelled today's matinee as well but plans to go on tonight.

Her tweet has since been deleted.

Hairspray tour in Detroit cancelled last night's performance (the matinee went on) and both shows today. Currently planned to resume on Tuesday for week two of the run. I was supposed to go tonight and switched my tickets to Thursday--fingers crossed!

Broadway down to just 19 shows playing now. Thankfully no cancellations recently. The next show to start up is Plaza Suite at the end of February.

Was there SVOG aid back in 2008/2009?

I have a feeling if there was no SVOG money there would be less than 18-19 shows running on Broadway.

frogs_fan85 said: "We'll have a very short window in late February between the closure of Skeleton Crew and the start of Plaza Suite with only 18 shows playing. I cannot remember a time (the recent staggered reopening of Broadway aside) where there were that few shows playing a normal schedule.

The worst I could think of in recent memory was after the bloodbath of January 2009. I was able to find the grosses for w/e 2/1/2009 and there were still 22 shows playing at that point."

It's definitely not ideal, but only 4 of the empty theaters (not under renovation) don't have something lined up to start between March and June. I'm hopeful that the large number of empty theatres will push people towards the shows that are running, softening the blow of a difficult season.

Hairspray in Detroit is cancelled tonight (Wednesday). I received an email at 3:46 saying the show has, “been cancelled due to breakthrough positive COVID cases within the company of Hairspray.” Hopefully, they can put on a show tomorrow.

Eerily similar to the Omicron variant, but symptoms seem to appear lesser though easier to transmit. All the more reason the mask mandate and vaccine mandates need to remain for Broadway. All you can get this variant even if you caught a previous strain of COVID before.

The York Theater cancelled about 10 days of performances of Penelope due to COVID, and started performances on April 2nd. New Ohio Theater cancelled tonight's first preview of Songs About Trains, but no reason was given on their website (could be a tech issue, could be COVID, etc). Is this the start of another wave?

Theater3232 said: "The York Theater cancelled about 10 days of performances of Penelope due to COVID, and started performances on April 2nd. New Ohio Theater cancelled tonight's first preview of Songs About Trains, but no reason was given on their website (could be a tech issue, could be COVID, etc). Is this the start of another wave?"

Probably an uptick, but not a full-blown nationwide wave. What we have seen these last few years is a major case surge in the fall / winter, along with at least 1-2 more moderate upticks in the spring / summer.
Part of the reason why COVID may be considered an episodic disease, should this pattern continue at least these next few years.

Updated On: 4/5/22 at 06:00 PM

What I’ve also noticed since theaters reopened is that the industry tends to get hit hard and fast whenever there is any sort of COVID uptick. Nearly 85% of infections in the Northeast are BA.2 cases at the moment, and only now are cases beginning to rise throughout the United States.