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COVID Cancellations
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
COVID performance cancellation#1951
Posted: 4/7/22 at 5:31pm
MadsonMelo said: "Any show heavily dependent of a star will suffer this at one point of the run"
Only if they test positive. Which no one can possibly know will or won't happen.
COVID performance cancellation#1952
Posted: 4/7/22 at 5:38pm
That makes four shows now shut down for the week - Macbeth, A Strange Loop, Suffs, and Plaza Suite. Definitely starting to feel like December again.
Featured Actor Joined: 3/1/10
COVID performance cancellation#1953
Posted: 4/7/22 at 5:42pm
Don’t most of the positive people feel fine?
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
COVID performance cancellation#1954
Posted: 4/7/22 at 5:43pm
Dan6 said: "That makes four shows now shut down for the week - Macbeth, A Strange Loop, Suffs, and Plaza Suite. Definitely starting to feel like December again."
Except one of those is because of both of the stars specifically being down due to household transmission (which can happen at any time), and it's been well-rehearsed that Macbeth would likely be down until Craig came back. I don't know how big the Macbeth outbreak is, and it doesn't matter. Craig is out, the show won't go on.
The Plaza Suite cancellation actually doesn't worry me at all, in terms of Broadway as a whole, because this is clearly an instance of household transmission between Broderick and Parker.
Still in wait-and-see mode.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
COVID performance cancellation#1955
Posted: 4/7/22 at 5:46pm
Note: I am neither being an optimist, nor a pessimist, in this situation. I'm being a realist.
I prefer to stick with the facts, and leave the worry and speculation on the shelf, where they belong.
COVID performance cancellation#1956
Posted: 4/7/22 at 6:48pm
Paradise Square tweeted (and then deleted) a post that said "Out of an abidance of caution due to COVID cases in the company, this evening's performance has been cancelled."
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
COVID performance cancellation#1957
Posted: 4/7/22 at 6:53pm
Yes, Paradise Square is cancelled tonight. Also seems to confirm that the absences in the cast yesterday were COVID as well.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
COVID performance cancellation#1958
Posted: 4/7/22 at 6:56pm
Another one bites the dust.
https://broadwaynews.com/2022/04/07/paradise-square-cancels-thursday-performance-due-to-covid-19/
COVID performance cancellation#1959
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:26pm
Have tickets next weekend for Six, Funny Girl and Plaza Suite. It was to be our first trip back to Broadway since December 2019.
At this point I fully expect this trip to get cancelled as we have apparently reentered December 2021 in NYC and I assume most shows next week get canceled. Im so, so over this @$#%.
COVID performance cancellation#1960
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:33pm
The responsible thing to do is just stop testing… this will never go away… treat it like the flu.. take a vaccine if you want or dont take it at all… You go to florida and nobody cares if you get covid… this headline is getting old already. STOP TESTING… someone’s health is a private matter… i dont care nor should i know if a virus is lurking in someones body.
Understudy Joined: 2/4/05
COVID performance cancellation#1961
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:36pm
Broadwaybuff17 said: "The responsible thing to do is just stop testing… this will never go away… treat it like the flu.. take a vaccine if you want or dont take it at all… You go to florida and nobody cares if you get covid… this headline is getting old already. STOP TESTING… someone’s health is a private matter… i dont care nor should i know if a virus is lurking in someones body."
I want to think this is a satirical post. I fear it isn’t.
COVID performance cancellation#1962
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:37pm
Broadwaybuff17 said: "The responsible thing to do is just stop testing… this will never go away… treat it like the flu.. take a vaccine if you want or dont take it at all… You go to florida and nobody cares if you get covid… this headline is getting old already. STOP TESTING… someone’s health is a private matter… i dont care nor should i know if a virus is lurking in someones body."
Congratulations on your troll post.
COVID performance cancellation#1963
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:38pm
Dan6 said: "That makes four shows now shut down for the week - Macbeth, A Strange Loop, Suffs, and Plaza Suite. Definitely starting to feel like December again."
Crazy -Here we go again...next week Funny Girl and ...
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
COVID performance cancellation#1964
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:39pm
Am I awful for wondering if Paradise Square will reopen and this is somehow an insurance scheme for Garth? I probably don't know what I'm talking about so PLEASE KNOW this isn't a rumor, just a joke.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
COVID performance cancellation#1965
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:45pm
Broadwaybuff17 said: "The responsible thing to do is just stop testing… this will never go away… treat it like the flu.. take a vaccine if you want or dont take it at all… You go to florida and nobody cares if you get covid… this headline is getting old already. STOP TESTING… someone’s health is a private matter… i dont care nor should i know if a virus is lurking in someones body."
Again, this is an air borne virus. And highly contagious. And everyone's body reacts differently to it. It's like getting the flu.
Chorus Member Joined: 7/7/15
COVID performance cancellation#1966
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:46pm
If PLAZA SUITE follows suit with similar shows – when could we *probably* expect Broderick and Parker to return? Naturally, I'm flying in next Friday and this is my first show of the trip! Wishing both wellness soon...
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
COVID performance cancellation#1967
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:48pm
iluvtheatertrash said: "Am I awful for wondering if Paradise Square will reopen and this is somehow an insurance scheme for Garth? I probably don't know what I'm talking about so PLEASE KNOW this isn't a rumor, just a joke."
Unlikely but as we saw with cancellations of shows like JAGGED, we're living in the wild west.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a show is closing current week (this Sunday), they need to post closing by Tuesday night or pay everyone out.
COVID performance cancellation#1968
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:48pm
iluvtheatertrash said: "Am I awful for wondering if Paradise Square will reopen and this is somehow an insurance scheme for Garth? I probably don't know what I'm talking about so PLEASE KNOW this isn't a rumor, just a joke."
They will use COVID as an excuse and close just like that show Biscuits N Chicken did
COVID performance cancellation#1969
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:50pm
Robbie2 said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "Am I awful for wondering if Paradise Square will reopen and this is somehow an insurance scheme for Garth? I probably don't know what I'm talking about so PLEASE KNOW this isn't a rumor, just a joke."
They will use COVID as an excuse and close just like that show Biscuits N Chicken did"
At the very least, Chicken & Biscuits, Ain't Too Proud, and Diana all had proper closings in the thick of the Omicron BA.1 wave.
COVID performance cancellation#1970
Posted: 4/7/22 at 7:55pm
iluvtheatertrash said: "Am I awful for wondering if Paradise Square will reopen and this is somehow an insurance scheme for Garth? I probably don't know what I'm talking about so PLEASE KNOW this isn't a rumor, just a joke."
The insurance providers have explicitly omitted coverage for COVID related cancelations because they got hit so hard due to vague language in their policy coverage pre-pandemic. There was a NYT article about it or Forbes maybe. It's more likely just a way to close the show with a little more dignity than it being closed so soon after opening and having once been buzzed as a real Tony contender. Not to say there aren't COVID issues, but I just think they can't afford to lose a full performance gross even if they were already operating at a big loss which I'm SURE they have been since they started.
Understudy Joined: 3/24/22
COVID performance cancellation#1971
Posted: 4/7/22 at 8:45pm
pagereynolds said: "Broadwaybuff17 said: "The responsible thing to do is just stop testing… this will never go away… treat it like the flu.. take a vaccine if you want or dont take it at all… You go to florida and nobody cares if you get covid… this headline is getting old already. STOP TESTING… someone’s health is a private matter… i dont care nor should i know if a virus is lurking in someones body."
Congratulations on your troll post."
You really need to stop with the “troll post” response when another poster makes a statement that doesn’t align with your thoughts or views.
COVID performance cancellation#1972
Posted: 4/7/22 at 8:56pm
I have to make the call by midnight to cancel my hotel for Saturday. Had SUFFS for Sunday, and TDF for Paradise Square Saturday night. I feel like PS will probably cancel, but I don't know.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
COVID performance cancellation#1973
Posted: 4/7/22 at 10:08pm
Broadwaybuff17 said: "You go to florida and nobody cares if you get covid."
Just when I think I have read the dumbest post ever on here, someone else comes along to outdo it.
Have you checked with the families of all 5000+ people who died from the first Omicron variant?
But yeah, you be you and go on defending the indefensible Florida solution to covid.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
COVID performance cancellation#1974
Posted: 4/8/22 at 4:33am
Robbie2 said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "Am I awful for wondering if Paradise Square will reopen and this is somehow an insurance scheme for Garth? I probably don't know what I'm talking about so PLEASE KNOW this isn't a rumor, just a joke."
They will use COVID as an excuse and close just like that show Biscuits N Chicken did"
Ah, good old Biscuits N Chicken.
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