| re: Many nonprofit theaters have called for cutting the NYPD budget, but not the Broadway ones (Second Stage, Roundabout, Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center). Why? |
| Posted by: singleticket 09:45 pm EDT 06/24/20 |
| In reply to: Many nonprofit theaters have called for cutting the NYPD budget, but not the Broadway ones (Second Stage, Roundabout, Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center). Why? - wizrdofoz27 09:05 pm EDT 06/24/20 |
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...the four nonprofit theater companies with Broadway theaters are conspicuously absent from the list of co-signers.
As ryhog noted below, no sign of The Public Theater and others. It's a large list of endorsers, some of them groups that are a part of the city's essential human rights infrastructure... others, well, kind of iffy.
This question may not have an answer, but I found their absence rather conspicuous and am curious what the difference is behind-the-scenes at these larger nonprofit organizations that leads them to avoid the NYPD budget issue.
I think it's a fair question. On the surface I think it's because the larger non-profits' political culture is much more aligned with commercial Broadway than the progressive culture the endorsers represent. But on a deeper level, I think it's because the fortunes of Broadway and its non-profit sector are bound up with the NYPD. Beginning with Mayor Giuliani, the presence of a massively budgeted NYPD ensured that Broadway would be a safe space for domestic and international tourists and the profits that come from them. |
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