| At this point it’s safe to say that almost EVERY show will re-open... | |
| Last Edit: ShowGoer 08:43 am EST 03/12/21 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 08:32 am EST 03/12/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Patti LuPoneTo Star In New HBO Max Comedy Pilot - KingSpeed 11:20 pm EST 03/11/21 | |
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| ... that hasn’t pre-emptively announced a closing. That’s why it was such big news when Frozen announced early last summer that it wouldn’t be back, and when Mean Girls did the same thing just last month. But after a full year, and with full knowledge by now that a) the end is in sight but b) for one reason or another there’s still a chance some shows won’t be able to return till a year from now (vaccine rollout, return of tourism, coordinating cast and crew schedules with things like, yes, TV shows), I think any shows with zero plans to return would have announced it by now or will shortly. From Broadway Journal last week: “ No one put more money into the highly anticipated Broadway revival of Company than the insurance giant Chubb. The Ladies Who Lunch LLC, which transferred the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical from the West End only to suspend it during previews because of Covid-19, received $8.85 million from Chubb, according to an email that lead producer Chris Harper sent to investors. ...The Company money will enable the production to eventually open with a large cash cushion, or reserve, Harper wrote in September. The windfall, he wrote in another investor email, is the result of a “very robust policy” that “covers actual expenses incurred during the shutdown as well as lost profits.” Based on a recoupment chart, the $8,849,100 is equivalent to 80 percent of potential sales at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre over nine weeks. The cash lasts much longer: while waiting out the pandemic, the $13 million show spends a fraction of its normal weekly expenses, with its cast, crew and musicians off the payroll.” The article goes on to detail all the shows with similar payouts that will use the money to reopen, even including “Girl from the North Country”, which is great news. I can’t speak for all the plays that had been scheduled to open - although even there, Plaza Suite, The Minutes, Take Me Out, Birthday Candles, and obviously the nearly-sold-out The Lehman Trilogy have all officially announced they’ll be back. But in terms of musicals, Caroline or Change, Mrs. Doubtfire, Six and Flying Over Sunset have done the same - with this article it certainly seems as if Company and North Country will be back too. Diana elsewhere has implied it will, though I personally have slight doubts. But along with the other returnees like Hamilton, Lion King. Wicked, Phantom, Come from Away, and West Side Story, plus just-opened Jagged Little Pill and Tina, the newly announced Broadway productions of Our Town, Thoughts of a Colored Man, MJ, 1776, and Trouble in Mind, and the impending revival of Music Man and return of American Utopia, I think by around this time next year most Broadway houses will be full. Admittedly, for the most part spring-summer 2022 will look an awful lot like spring 2020 was SUPPOSED to, which will be an odd sort of time warp taking us back more than two years... A lot of juggling and a lot of details to be worked out, but that’s not nothing, and should be celebrated as we gradually get back to business as it was before. |
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