So I don't know if anyone has seen the weather forecast for this week;

You cannot camp out in central park. The park is closed at midnight.

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^For safety reasons, they do generally cancel for thunderstorms.

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winston- They start the line along Central Park West by the 81st Street entrance and bring them into the park at 6AM.

Yes, that is what people do but I don't think midnight will be necessary for the first preview with chances of thunderstorms, but I guess better safe than sorry.

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It rained on and off the night I went to see Twelfth Night. The performance still happened, though. I guess I was luck that most of the raining happened prior to the show.

It just so happened that it was raining the night before as well (while we were all huddled in our sleeping bags outside of CP) and Anne Hathaway and the cast brought boxes and boxes pizza to hand out. It was incredibly sweet of them.

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"There's a rather famous story about Meryl Streep wanting to continue a performance one night after a rainstorm, picking up a mop, and going out to wipe off the stage herself."

I don't remember if she mopped, but watching Meryl Streep and Raul Julia perform TAMING OF THE SHREW in the rain remains one of the highlights of my theater-going life. There were a few stops and starts for downpours, but if anybody left, I didn't see it. (I was one of the lucky few to be seated on the stage.)

But that was in 1981. I'm sure producers are much more concerned with lightning nowadays; I know they are more careful at sporting events.

"There's a rather famous story about Meryl Streep wanting to continue a performance one night after a rainstorm, picking up a mop, and going out to wipe off the stage herself. "


Very near the truth, but not quite.

I was there that night (one of the best nights of theater in my life...period). The show (Mother Courage) stopped about 2 or 3 times throughout due to horrible rain. (A friend of mine ended up buying a SITP towel for 40 bucks, if I'm not mistaken, to keep us close to dry.) By the last stop in the performance, the stage crew appeared with mops and began cleaning...and then Meryl appeared in full costume with a large rag, got on all fours, and started cleaning. As you can guess, the audience BLEW UP with excitement.

By the end of the performance EVERYONE (audience, cast, crew) were drenched and cheered. After, the stage manager announced that it was because of the cast that the performance continued until the end. Such a night never to be forgotten!!

Best was seeing HAIR and when it started raining the audience started chanting. "Hell no! We won't go!"
Another night it rained so hard, you could not see the stage! Called the show after 3-5-0-0.

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Singtopher, wait until tomorrow afternoon; there will be plenty of people, myself included, who will have lined up for the first show and be able to give you more information.

^I don't mean to be rude but where are you getting this information?

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I almost feel like this is a grand conspiracy to make tickets easier to get. (I'm mostly joking, I gotcha )

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I just got a double confirmation, not that I didn't trust you Kad, but I guess you never know. I imagine a lot of people won't find out and will be lining up in the morning.

What are the chances the second preview gets canceled? Unfortunate this had to happen but given Shakespeare in the Park's history, the situation must have been very dire as they would do anything possible to have the show if they could. I imagine all the rain/thunderstorms made tech week a nightmare.

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