NEW YORK, USA.- Many productions of Broadway They hope to resume ticket sales in the coming days to welcome audiences back to the theater this fall after city and state authorities authorized its reopening at full capacity by mid-September.
“We remain cautiously optimistic about Broadway’s ability to resume performances this fall and we are happy that fans can start buying tickets again,” he said. Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, in a statement Wednesday.
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The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, said Broadway theaters will be able to reopen on Sept. 14 and set their own entry requirements, including whether people must show they have been vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend a show.
Ticket sales will allow theaters to gauge interest before the curtains rise, said Robert Mujica, Cuomo’s budget director.
“We look forward to continuing our discussions with the Broadway League about a safe reopening and we know that the time will soon come when members can get back to doing what they do best, creating world-class theater,” said Mary McColl, Executive Director of Actors. ‘Equity, the union group representing theater actors.
When Broadway turns the lights back on, it will look different. In May, the Disney musical “Frozen” decided not to return when theaters reopened, marking the first set show to be brought down by the pandemic. The producers of “Mean Girls” also decided not to return.
New shows
But there will be new shows including Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over”, scheduled for the August Wilson Theater that “Mean Girls” vacated. And a Shubert theater was promised to playwright Keenan Scott II’s “Thoughts of a Colored Man.”
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The industry has long viewed the lifting of capacity restrictions as crucial to any reopening plan, as Broadway’s economy demands the full capacity of the site. Some off-Broadway shows have already reopened with limited seating.
All the theaters in the city abruptly closed on March 12, 2020 eliminating all shows, including 16 whose premieres were scheduled.
Some that were to debut spring 2020 – like a musical about Michael Jackson and a revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite” starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker – they postponed their productions to 2021.
But others completely abandoned their plans, including “Hangmen” and a rerun of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) By Edward Albee.
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