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| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 04:15 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Would that it were annual. - Billhaven 03:55 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| Oh, I'm not debating moving the "Margaritaville" start time, I'm just curious about the larger question this has prompted about how our theater responds to our crumbling infrastructure. While I think that ryhog is right that the audience for this show - and perhaps for Broadway as a whole - isn't the core NY theater going audience, I do look at the non-profit world, and wonder how they'll respond to the train problem. And I'm always curious about how Manahattanites are unaware of the struggles that the rest of us face living in this city. This thread may have started around this new Jimmy Buffet musical that I have heard is the single worst thing to be foisted upon Times Square since Guy Fieri's restaurant, but I don't think many of the responses really care much about that regressive piece of "entertainment". |
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| re: Would that it were annual. | |
| Posted by: ryhog 04:30 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Would that it were annual. - Singapore/Fling 04:15 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| I am headed out so will be brief, but unfortunately I don't think the theatre can solve the city's infrastructure troubles. I am certainly not unaware or unfrustrated by the struggles, even though I can walk or take a bus if the trains are a mess. I missed a show last week because of a train screwup and I was just coming up from the village. Anyone who is exempt is not using transit. | |
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| re: Would that it were annual. | |
| Posted by: summertheater 04:27 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Would that it were annual. - Singapore/Fling 04:15 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| The theater world has responded to the subways before. If the subways are shut down due to a winter storm, the shows are cancelled. Similarly, I believe they should adapt to the major change in subway track work that was instituted a few months ago. For the past 15+ years I have been taking the subway after a show, the weeknight trackwork (with very limited exceptions) has always started at midnight. Now, a major change has occurred. Due to the crumbling infrastructure, as of approx November 2017, the subway trackwork now starts (with limited exceptions) at 9:30pm/9:45pm. Just look at Tuesday night's trackwork on the MTA website and you'll know what I mean - these are very major service disruptions as of 9:30pm/9:45pm. Total shutdowns of the system are occurring along Queens Blvd (E/F/R), Morningside Heights (#1), Ozone Park (A), and Flatbush (#2) starting 9:30pm Tuesday night. You will need to take a shuttle bus. Manhattan customers will see significant reroutes as well. |
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| re: Would that it were annual. | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 06:19 pm EST 02/12/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Would that it were annual. - summertheater 04:27 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| Go to a weekend matinee. End of discussion. | |
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| re: Would that it were annual. | |
| Posted by: ryhog 04:40 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Would that it were annual. - summertheater 04:27 pm EST 02/11/18 | |
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| winter storms are catastrophes, and cost the theatre dearly (and sometimes disastrously). You can't respond to an ongoing crisis that way because it will kill the patient. This problem is bigger than you and bigger than the theatre, but your solution does not make the slightest bit of sense. | |
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