Posted on 05/18/2021 7:39:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York City Broadway theaters closed on March 12, 2020. The closure was supposed to be for just one month. Fourteen months later, the theaters are still closed. But now Governor Cuomo has announced New York’s theaters are cleared for reopening, starting September 14. No less than 23 plays are scheduled to open between September and November.
Theaters will be allowed to open at “full capacity,” but with “social distancing,” with “capacity limitations are only governed by the ability of people to socially distance by six feet.” Maybe this makes sense to someone who is “woke,” but it does not make sense to me.
Theater seats are not exactly six feet apart. In fact, a problem with Broadway’s theaters when they were open was that, when most of the theaters were built, only a tiny percent of the population was over 6 feet tall or over 250 pounds.
Broadway’s 41 theaters range in capacity from 600 to just under 2,000, but more than 30 seat more than 1,000. A play has to be at close to 100% audience capacity to be economically viable. Taking out seats would require drastically raising already pre-Wuhan Virus sky high prices. Cuomo has hinted all theater patrons will require proof of vaccination.
I keep hearing how resilient New York City is and that it will be back. But I think New York City is finished forever as a “world” capital; it is Karachi, Pakistan now – the biggest city and commercial, not political, capital of a populous nation.
I’ll believe the Broadway theater will be back and viable when I see it happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Good.
Only an idiot would venture into New York City these days.
“Honey, let’s go downtown, catch a show, and get beaten and robbed tonight.”
Problems of liberalism. Yawn.
Outside of NY does anyone really care?
Billy Joel called it....
Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isG3qkQXBic
Even better. Let’s go downtown, catch a show and pay for the privilege of getting a lecture from woke actors before we get beaten and robbed.
Screw New Yawk
Advice for actors: Learn. To. Code.
Oh noes! Out of work actors!
Oh man, where am I going to watch a bunch of people dressed up in cat costumes prancing about on stage? DNC national convention?
***On January 13, 2020, just one month before the Wuhan virus closed Broadway. . . ***
Uh . . . WRONG!!
The virus didn’t close anything. They were closed by imperialist Democrat (and some Republican) governors and mayors. Please, never forget this!
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple.
Thoughts and prayers. Coding is always an option.
They can forget about tourism. Hollywood should die a slow painful death for the damage they have done to our culture, our children and our country.
Too bad, so sad.
Exactly, it's not the covid in the theater that will kill you, it's the mentally insane that roam the streets with no consequence.
Hope yer happy, leftists, especially those in Broadway; YOUR SIDE and ilk are responsible for all this!
But you just keep believing Trump is responsible!
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