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| Last Edit: Chromolume 11:53 pm EDT 08/13/20 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:44 pm EDT 08/13/20 | |
| In reply to: reducing seats in the Berkshires - ryhog 10:42 pm EDT 08/13/20 | |
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| No, it's not a "cautionary tale." This involves a statewide measure having nothing specific to do with BTG. They're just following state orders. This is where our lives are now - we need to know there will be constant unpredictable change. It's not a "tale," cautionary or otherwise. And the eeyores, chicken littles, and schadenfreude-filled pundits only make it worse. Life is already beyond stressful for many of us to have to hear "I told you so" instead of compassion. Thank you. | |
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| re: reducing seats in the Berkshires | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:24 am EDT 08/14/20 | |
| In reply to: re: reducing seats in the Berkshires - Chromolume 11:44 pm EDT 08/13/20 | |
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| I was overly brief in what I posted and you took a different meaning and intention from it than I intended. For that I am very sorry. When things like this happen, it is like a knife through my heart. I certainly have no schadenfreude. What was missing from what I wrote was the connection I had in mind to what some are saying about Broadway. I have written multiple times that reopening is dependent on the mindset of producers vis-a-vis risk and unpredictability. I hope that BTG finds a way to weather this storm and I hope its supporters can step up enough to get them back close to where they would have been without the reduction. But when we talk about Broadway and making decisions many months out to spend enormous amounts of money, I just don't think that is going to happen so long as we have the kind of uncertainty and government action that this represents. In hindsight, I can see how drawing out this connection might seem insensitive, and I regret that as well. |
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| re: reducing seats in the Berkshires | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:49 am EDT 08/14/20 | |
| In reply to: re: reducing seats in the Berkshires - ryhog 12:24 am EDT 08/14/20 | |
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| Thank you - I absolutely appreciate it. ;-) The only thing I would add is that, in terms of Broadway and any other theatres making plans to try to reopen - I do have to assume they do already understand what you said above - that nothing is certain, and that they're willing to deal with the risks as they happen. But I do applaud those at least trying to find safe and well-intentioned ways of going forward somehow. Even if those plans fall apart due to circumstances beyond control. With all the theatre gigs (regional and college) I've lost since March, I still had one hopeful one in December. Today I found out that show has been postponed for a year. (And the gig is still mine at that point if I want it, which is at least comforting.) I totally understand the situation, they are absolutely right to be postponing, and this wasn't all that unexpected. And yet, it's still frustrating news. But, as I think we agree, everything is "subject to change," and that's where we are. In the meantime, I sincerely wish my best to anyone who can successfully and safely get a production going. Onward...;-) |
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