The opening of STOMP It came a few days before the Broadway League announced new sanitary measures for its upcoming reopening to the public.
However, the productions in the Off-Broadway they are adopting such protocols, such as requiring members of the production and audience to be fully vaccinated to enter the theater.
And it is that once the curtain has risen, you can no longer turn back.
Joshua Cruz, a member of the cast of STOMP, corroborates: “Yes, the show keep going. I know we are in a pandemic, but the show keep going. It’s a good show where it is not spoken; everything is done in the moment and how it communicates is with body language”.
It is important to note that the health protocols for theatrical shows require their audience to have elapsed, at least 14 days, from the application of the second dose of the vaccine.
And in the case of children under 12 years of age, a negative PCR test must be submitted that has been applied within a period of 72 hours. Or show a negative antigen test taken in the last 6 hours.
But despite this, viewers and artists are willing to meet these requirements because the performance must continue.
“Everyone is happy. In the first show many of the people who were watching it were very happy to be back in a show. I think one of the first show that open in New York; so, many people came that day and everyone enjoyed seeing the show. Being up there, again, doing our thing: sweating and giving it to the garbage, the broom, the shopping carts and all that, we really enjoyed being at that time with the audience”, details this artist of Puerto Rican origin.
Of course, there are shows that are imposing stricter rules. Like the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall, where no one under the age of 12 can enter the halls because they are not vaccinated.
And as for the Theater District and the Off-Broadway, It was also announced that the sanitation measures will be reviewed in September, before most of the theaters reopen their doors.
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