Delta Variant and Broadway
Delta Variant and Broadway
Braniff Forever
Featured Actor Joined: 6/27/15
#1Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:26amWith the stock market in free fall this morning (the stock market reflects what investors think of the future not the present), and since now Los Angeles County has re-instituted an indoor mask mandate, I wonder what all this holds for the re-opening of Broadway theatre in September? Will live theatre be postponed (I hope not! People will say follow the science! Well, what if the science says dont have large public gatherings (theatre) without masks? Then what? Id be ok sitting in a theatre with a mask (we do it now on airplanes with flights even longer than a Broadway show). But what about the performers performing without a mask? I hope were not going back to where we were a year or a year and a half ago!
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#2Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:30am
New York State is not a garbage state, we believe in science and did allllll the work required for the past 16 months. Hopefully, we will be fine. "Not vaxxed? You are not welcome here" is most likely what Cuomo will say in one of his press conferences soon.
#3Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:32amI think if ANYTHING, this is going to force every theatre to require proof of vaccination upon entry.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#4Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:33am
Which is fine by like 99% of people I'm guessing.
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#5Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:34am
This thought has been torturing my mental health for the past few days, as I indicated in a previous thread. I'm getting sadly very close to cancelling my September flight. 
#6Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:34amand that other 1% can go to a monster truck rally or something.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#7Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:35am
Hahahahaha. With their F150s covered in Trump 2024 flags.
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#9Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:38am
I can see the Broadway League requiring vaccinated guests only with proof of their vaccination. Masks required once inside the theater also.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#11Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:44am
I think the odds of not requiring vax for Broadway shows this year (probably the full season) are close to zero. I think mask mandates are possible but less likely in that context. I also think that these requirements will only have negative implications for the subset of shows that cannot expect a lot of local support. Something I have been saying all along, which is why I expect a lot of the evergreens and other tourist-pitched properties to not make it. Which is why I have said that opening this many shows this fall is stupid. Even with coffers filled with grants. We shall see.
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#12Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:46am
I'm 10000000% okay with them requiring vaccines and masks. I've been vaccinated for months, and still wear a mask. I just want them to reopen. As I have said before, if they have to shut down again/delay reopening, I have no qualms with introducing anti-vaxxers to my fists.
#13Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:52am
I also think more shows should have gone with the reduced schedule of just 5 or 6 shows a week. I believe just Chicago, Dear Evan Hansen and Moulin Rouge are doing the reduced schedule. This Winter will be a bloodbath of closures.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#14Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 11:59amHaving sat in close to 20 theaters this month wearing a mask, my plea to theatres would be to TURN THE AC DOWN. It’s going to be blazing hot and you can’t properly cool down with that on your face so people are sweating and uncomfortable. The AC really needs to be down at a level where it’s going to cool you off when you enter, otherwise it’s just not an enjoyable experience.
#15Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 12:00pm
I think a lot of perennials will suffer. People are really excited about seeing COMPANY, for example, because it’s new and pre-pandemic word was strong. But WICKED? It’s a shame, too.
I did hear rumors that CHICAGO is going to have a really interesting cast come fall. I hope interesting also includes able to do well by the material and not Hope Hicks as Roxie.
#16Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 12:36pmFrom what I’ve heard people are most at risk from Delta in areas with low vaccination rates. NYS has an over 70% vaccination rate (which will undoubtedly be higher in September). And the current vaccines appear to be at least mostly effective against the variants. Given that I think it’s unlikely the reopening will get pushed back, especially now that Broadway’s return has been officially announced and people have bought tickets and made plans. I do think (and hope) that shows will require proof of vaccination for those eligible, and negative tests/masks for those unable to be vaccinated. I don’t see any point in requiring masks for people who have proved they’ve been vaccinated, although I could see more shows doing like what Pass Over is doing and requiring masks for everyone when walking about/in the lobby, but making them optional (for those vaccinated) when seated in the theatre.
you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#17Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 12:48pm
I just feel so defeated about all of this right now. I have done everything to help fight this pandemic, and save the industry. I have participated in a vaccine trial, I have learned almost everything about Covid to make sure the right information is getting out there (doing quite a number on my mental health in the process). I've essentially gone to war against misinformation/disinformation. I even emailed Dr. Fauci to ask for advice on what more I could maybe do. Because, even with all that I had been doing, it felt like I could do even more. And now it feels like it's all coming crashing down, because too many people refused to get vaccinated.
I bought a bunch of Broadway tickets for September, to reward myself for fighting this fight, and persevering when I never thought, in my wildest dreams, that I could. Now it's seeming like all of that hard work was for naught.
Sorry for the lament. I need comfort food. 
#18Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 12:51pm
The fact is that zip codes that buy theatre tickets in the local area are heavily vaccinated. Many over 80% and quite a few closer to 100%. All kidding aside, those idiots in the south and southern midwest are not going to make or break any show that has a snowballs chance in hell of surviving.
#19Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 12:53pm
As awful as it sounds, i take comfort in the CDC saying it’s now a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”. Hell, even Fox News changed course this morning and told people they have to get vaccinated.
Nothing has been canceled/changed here on Broadway yet. Let’s just wait and see what happens before declaring Broadway’s return DOA.
#20Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 1:03pm
BroadwayRox3588 said: "And now it feels like it's all coming crashing down, because too many people refused to get vaccinated."
Actually, I think you are focused on the wrong half of America. The vaccinated half (actually much more than half) and the theatre-going half (actually far less than half) are crashing up not down. It should come as a surprise to no one that rural farmers in Arkansas (highlighted in a meaty Times piece the other day) don't buy tickets. Let them fill up their ICUs again; maybe this time they will learn. That's probably more awful sounding than what Jordan takes comfort in, but both are true. The part of Broadway and NY theatre that does not need to depend on the idiots (or foreign tourists) will arrive alive.
#21Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 1:07pmI mean…yeah. Awful or not these people (primarily republicans) are choosing to gamble with their lives and at this point when they can literally go to the corner store and save their lives but are choosing not to - I’m done feeling bad for those certain people.
MannPhan24601
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/15
#22Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 1:10pm
One singer I listen to had both Pfziers months ago and just tested positive a few days ago. He came back from a trip to see his family in several European countries two weeks ago. (He lives in PA)
One of my HS friends had J&J a few months ago and was still even masking everywhere and got it too.
Idk what the heck is going to happen, especially with Cinderella closing.......
#23Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 1:23pm
Jordan Catalano said: "and that other 1% can go to a monster truck rally or something."
I am assuming you are referring to that sold out Monster Truck rally that just took place at MetLife Stadium this past weekend. I just shook my head.
Just give the world Love.
#25Delta Variant and Broadway
Posted: 7/19/21 at 1:30pm
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's taking an "oh well, their problem" approach to those who are refusing to get vaccinated. It sounds callous, but this whole nightmare has been frustrating and scary enough without having to stop the world again because of these fools.
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